Vibetunnel
Open-source tool for watching and steering terminal coding agents from a browser or phone.
why this verdict
Keep it — Anthropic has not replaced it
Anthropic's version overlaps, but does not finish the dev tools job, so this one is still worth keeping open.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Vendor-native mobile apps for coding agents removing the need for a third-party bridge. Anthropic, January 20, 2026 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 2 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: tmux and Tailscale.
- What the call is worth nothing to cancel
- No paid entry tier tracked, so there is no subscription to cancel.
- Threatened by
- Anthropic
- Since
- January 20, 2026
- List price
- free
- Per year
- —
The backstory
Vibetunnel came out of the same orbit as OpenClaw and answers a problem the agent era created: an agent running for twenty minutes in a terminal you have walked away from. It mirrors that session to a browser or phone so you can watch, approve and intervene from anywhere. The model vendors are shipping their own mobile experiences, which is the threat, but a tool that works with whatever agent you happen to be running keeps its reason to exist across vendor changes.
Escape hatches
Free terminal multiplexer with session persistence
github.com open_in_newReach your machine remotely and use SSH directly
tailscale.com open_in_newModern terminal with agent management built in
warp.dev open_in_new2 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.
