Why I gave Claude Code a computer instead of building another IDE

Pung Worathiti Manosroi — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:55:50 +0000

Most "AI coding" products still put a chat window next to your editor and call it a day. I wanted something closer to what Claude Code already does well on a server: give it a real computer and let it drive.

Superagent is a Mac app that gives Claude Code (or any agent you point it at) an actual environment to work in, not just a text box. Concretely:

A real browser it can navigate, click, type into, and read the DOM of, not screenshots and guesses.
An iOS Simulator window it can install apps into, tap through, and screenshot to verify UI changes.
A relay that pairs your Mac with your phone, so the agent can keep working (and you can keep watching) from your pocket.

The core idea is boring on purpose: don't build a smarter chat window, build a better place for the agent to act. Most of the interesting failures I hit while building this weren't in the model, they were in the environment: synthetic file inputs that don't persist through a web form's upload component, elements that exist in the DOM but aren't in the accessibility tree, simulator state that drifts from what a screenshot shows. Fixing those is what actually makes an agent reliable to hand a task to.

It's built as three pieces: an Electron desktop app, a SwiftUI iOS companion, and a small Cloudflare Worker relay that pairs the two with per-address rate limits so a lost phone can't be used to spam a stranger's Mac.

If you want to see it: https://peerlist.io/pungme/project/superagent-for-mac

Happy to answer questions about the browser automation approach, the simulator driving, or the relay's pairing/security model in the comments.

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Why I gave Claude Code a computer instead of building another IDE