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KarmaBox
Run your own Claude Code in your pocket.
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Run your own Claude Code in your pocket.
872 followers
Run hundreds of AI agents from your phone. Turn your devices into a private compute pool, route every task to the best AI, and use Claude, Codex, Gemini and more — no infra, no lock-in.
Well done, Viveka! This feels huge. How do you handle API costs does it get expensive if agents run 24/7 on my device?
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@affan_ahmad6 Thanks 🙌
Good question — 24/7 doesn’t mean it’s constantly using APIs. Agents are mostly idle until there’s actual work.
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@affan_ahmad6 We also route to different models, so you’re not always hitting the expensive ones.
In practice it’s pretty manageable.
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@affan_ahmad6 Great question! KarmaBox automatically routes each task to the most cost-effective model for that specific job
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@azhagiri_thirupathi Good question — you actually don’t need much to get started.
A phone + your laptop is already enough. The phone is just for control, and the actual work runs on whatever machines you connect.
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@azhagiri_thirupathi If you want more parallelism, you just add more devices — no strict “minimum spec” kind of setup.
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@azhagiri_thirupathi Even Iphone 8 can use this app well.
wow interesting, Ill give it a try......
How are you different from Claude's Remote Control?
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@achuth_noob Great question! Claude Remote Control lets you run Claude Code on a remote machine — it's essentially a terminal in the cloud. Karma goes further in a few key ways:
1. Mobile-native, not mobile-adapted
Karma is built from the ground up for your phone. Full conversation history, streaming responses, tool call visualization, voice input — all designed as a mobile-first experience, not a ported terminal.
2. Your machine, your data
Karma runs on your KarmaBox (Mac/Linux). The AI executes on hardware you own. E2E encrypted. Nothing goes through Anthropic's servers except the LLM call itself.
3. Persistent AI teammates, not sessions
Avatars with skills, memory, and personalities that persist across conversations. Think less "remote terminal" and more "AI coworker you can reach from your phone at 2am."
4. Orchestration layer
Multi-agent coordination, skill marketplace, project-level context — built for teams running parallel workstreams, not just a single dev querying Claude.
In short: Claude Remote Control is a power tool. Karma is the operating system around it.
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@achuth_noob Great question — and excited for you to try it out 🙌
Claude’s Remote Control is mainly about accessing and running Claude across devices.
KarmaBox is a bit different — it’s not tied to a single model or a single machine.
It coordinates multiple models and agents, runs them across all your devices as one system, and keeps tasks moving even if you step away or switch devices.
So instead of controlling one AI remotely, you’re essentially running a whole system of them together.
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This is brilliant!
The biggest difference for me is the parallel execution. Things that used to take multiple steps now just happen at once.
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@itsluo Love hearing that — that shift is exactly what we were aiming for.
Once things start running in parallel, it really changes how you approach work altogether.
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@itsluo Thanks so much for the support!
You've hit the nail on the head — parallel execution is exactly what we set out to solve. Instead of waiting for one AI task to finish before starting the next, KarmaBox lets multiple agents work simultaneously on your device.
I am curious what's the weirdest thing you have seen KarmaBox do that surprised you during testing?
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@fletcher_oliver Haha great question 😄
One thing that surprised us was how quickly agents started coordinating on their own.
We’d kick off a task expecting a linear flow, and instead multiple agents would split it up, share context, and converge on a result way faster than we planned.
It wasn’t something we explicitly scripted — more like the system figuring out a better way to get things done.
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@fletcher_oliver Curious what kind of “weird” behavior you’d want to see from a system like this? Haha~~
Having tasks run across devices instead of a single machine is a big unlock.
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@linglistack Totally — that’s exactly the unlock we were chasing.
Once work isn’t tied to a single machine, it starts to feel much more like a system than a tool.
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@linglistack Yes, you can control you devices anywhere with your phone.
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@satish_autade Hey — really appreciate that, and totally hear you on the multi-agent pain 🙌
Right now the app is only available on the App Store in North America and Singapore while we’re rolling things out gradually.
If you’re open to it, we can add you to our early access list for the next regions — happy to get you in as soon as it’s available 👍
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@satish_autade Out of curiosity, which country are you based in?