DevThrottleHow to reach your coding agents from a computer that is not yours
You are away from your desk with a real keyboard in front of you: a hotel business centre, a client's spare laptop, a family desktop. Your agents are still running at home, and one of them has been waiting on you since lunch. You do not want to install anything on this machine, and you do not want to leave a door open on it when you go.
A browser tab is the whole install
The Cockpit is a web page your Gateway serves, so any machine with a browser can reach it with nothing downloaded. It is the same Cockpit you use at your own desk. There is no reduced remote mode.
Open a private window first. Signing in registers that browser as a device on your account, and a private window forgets that when it closes. It covers you if you get called away and never reach the last step below.
Then go to your Gateway's address and sign in. Which Gateway you chose decides whether this just works:
- Hosted Gateway. A public web address, reachable from any browser on any network. Nothing to prepare.
- Self-hosted Gateway. It runs on your own machine, and reaching it from outside your network is yours to arrange. Sort that out before you travel, not in the hotel lobby.
Go straight to what is waiting
The session list shows every session in your fleet, under the Director that runs it, and each card says what the session is doing and how long it has been waiting. Turn on Attention first and whatever has been waiting longest comes to the top. On a borrowed machine with limited time, that is usually the only ordering you want.
Click a session and you get its live terminal, the prompt box and its queue. Read what the agent did, say what you want, and move on.
Leave properly
Closing the tab does not undo the sign-in, so this is the step people skip and should not. There are two parts, and they do different things.
- On the borrowed machine, sign out. Open the menu behind your name at the bottom of the left rail and choose Sign out of your account, then confirm. This makes the browser forget your account.
- From your own machine, remove the device. Open Settings, go to the Account tab, find the borrowed browser under Your devices, and press Remove. Removing a device is what revokes its access. Signing out alone leaves it on your list.
If you have only your phone rather than a keyboard, you want the thirty-second answer instead.
The Gateway side of this is covered on Answering from another machine, and the steps are on Open the Cockpit from any browser.