Guides to running Claude Code and other coding agents on a remote machine: image paste and notifications over SSH, using an agent from your phone, sandboxing, and how Zydra compares with a VPS and with exe.dev.
What is Zydra?
Zydra is a Linux desktop in your own virtual machine that you open with ssh zydra.sh, made for running AI coding agents away from your laptop.
Running Claude Code on a remote server: what breaks and how to fix it
Moving Claude Code off your laptop saves memory and keeps it away from your files, but you lose notifications, image paste, scrolling and a view of what it built. Here is how to get each one back.
How to paste images into Claude Code over SSH
Why pasting a screenshot into Claude Code fails over SSH, the workarounds that do work, and how Zydra carries a Ctrl+V image from your computer to the agent.
Get notified when Claude Code needs you on a remote machine
How to get a desktop or phone notification when Claude Code finishes or asks for permission on a server, with hooks, ntfy or Zydra.
Using Claude Code from your phone
The ways to check on and reply to a coding agent from a phone: SSH apps, Claude's Remote Control and Zydra's phone view, and what each is good at.
Sandboxing AI coding agents: containers or microVMs?
Running an agent with permissions off is only safe in a sandbox. What containers protect, where they fall short, and why microVMs isolate more.
Zydra vs a VPS with tmux and Tailscale
A do-it-yourself remote agent box (a VPS or mini PC with tmux or herdr, Tailscale and Termius) compared with Zydra on cost, setup and what each gives you.
Zydra vs exe.dev
Both start with ssh and give agents a Linux VM. exe.dev sells pools of VMs with HTTPS hosting from $15 a month; Zydra sells one VM with a graphical desktop, a GPU and a phone view for $40.