Stop babysitting your AI coding agent. Let it text you.

Agentic coding has a dirty little secret: you spend half the time watching the agent work.

You give it a task. It plans, edits five files, runs the tests... then stops to ask "PostgreSQL or SQLite?"

You're in the kitchen. Ten minutes gone, for a one-word answer.

The fix is simple: let the agent text you.

What that looks like

You give Cortex AI IDE a task and walk away. Your phone buzzes on Telegram:

Cortex needs your answer
Which database should the app use?
1. PostgreSQL
2. SQLite

You tap 2. The run carries on. A few minutes later:

✓ Done in 41s · 12 tests passed

It works the other way too. Send a task from your phone as a text, a screenshot of a bug, or a voice note on the way home, and it runs on your computer.

"Wait, isn't that dangerous?"

Fair question. Here's how it's locked down:

• The phone can't approve commands. It can answer questions, but anything that actually runs still waits for you at the computer.
• No open ports. No public IP, no webhook, nothing exposed.
• Only your chat works. Messages from anyone else are silently ignored.

The other half: any model, even a free local one

The agent doesn't need an expensive API. With Cortex Connect, you can point it at anything OpenAI-compatible: Groq, OpenRouter, or Ollama running on your own laptop. Your keys never leave your machine.

A local model doing the work, and your phone in your pocket. The code keeps moving while you get on with your day.

Try it

• Setup takes about 5 minutes: Telegram guide (the bot is part of the Pro plan; the IDE itself is free)
• Download: cortex-ide.app

How do you handle long agent runs? Still babysitting, or have you found a better way? 👇

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Disclosure: I'm a developer of Cortex AI IDE at Pasons Group.

Comments

[Dmitry Sergeev]

We need to produce a casual YouTube comment as a dev watching the video. Should be short, one or two sentences, maybe a question about the content. No quotes, no hashtags, no markdown, no URLs, no marketing. Use lowercase start. Could ask about how to reduce babysitting time. Let's produce something like: "any tips on how to set up the agent to auto‑send logs instead of constant prompts?" Wait can't use hyphen? Hyphen is okay. Use "auto-send" maybe. Avoid em-d