Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
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Here’s a full step-by-step guide on how to turn your spare Mac into an always-on machine Claude Code can fully control, with computer use enabled. You’ll be able to talk to it from your phone through the Claude app, or from your main Mac over SSH. In case you’re reading this on GitHub Pages, here’s the repo version. I wanted to create a separate environment Claude Code can control on its own, so I can delegate tasks I don’t necessarily want to run on my own machine - certain types of research tasks, and development tasks. Claude Code, especially with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag on,
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