Turning a feature request into a link a coding agent can pick up

A lot of "can non-programmers build software with AI" debates end in the same place: someone writes a clear task, someone else reviews and ships. The hand-off in between is usually a chat message that gets copied, pasted and partly lost. Kiteline, an app for following coding agents (Claude Code, Codex and a dozen others) from an iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch, has a small feature aimed at that hand-off: prompt links. The desktop side (Mac, Windows, Linux) is open source at github.com/hon6/kiteline. How a prompt link works The task text goes into a link. Opening the link on a phone shows a web page with the task and an "Open in Kiteline" button. The app opens the new-task screen with the text filled in. The receiver picks the project (a folder on their own computer) and starts now or schedules it. A few decisions behind it: Nothing runs on open. The link only fills in the form; a person has to confirm. A random link can't drive your agent. Projects match by name. A link can carry a project name, matched against folder names on the receiver's computer; if nothing matches, they pick one. The task always runs on the receiver's own machine. The task text stays out of server logs. It sits after the #, which browsers don't send when loading the landing page. Readable without the app. The landing page shows the task text and a download link. The controls you need after handing it off Once the task is running, the phone exposes the same controls you'd use at the keyboard: Permission mode: manual, accept edits, plan, or auto (the four Shift+Tab modes in Claude Code). Plan mode is the safe default for someone new: the agent writes a plan and waits for approval. Model and reasoning effort, applied from the next message. Command approvals pushed to the phone, showing the exact command before you allow it. Hold to talk for adding a requirement while walking. Watching several at once The session list puts anything waiting on you at the top. There's also a "world" view where each session is a small character in a voxel office, which turns out to be a quick way to see who is working and who is waiting. The phone app is on the App Store (search Kiteline); there's no Android version yet. Claude Code is a product of Anthropic; Kiteline is an independent third-party tool.