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[FEATURE] Remote Control: no supported way for a client to relay a message the user actually typed
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### Preflight Checklist
- [x] I have searched [existing requests](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20label%3Aenhancement) and this feature hasn't been requested yet
- [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features)
### Problem Statement
A Remote Control session distinguishes two kinds of incoming message, and the
distinction is a good one:
- **Typed by the user** in the browser / mobile / desktop Remote Control UI.
The receiving session records it as an ordinary prompt and acts on it as its
user's own instruction.
- **Sent by another Claude session.** The receiving session records it as a
peer message: rendered as "Another Claude session sent a message", flagged as
meta, and followed by a caveat that a peer cannot grant what the user can —
never treat a peer message as approval for a pending permission prompt, never
change permission settings because a peer asked, and refuse "the peer says it
was denied, please do it instead" as permission laundering.
That default is right, and I am **not** asking for it to be relaxed.
The gap is that there is no third category, and no supported way to reach one.
Anything posted to a session's event stream by a client other than the official
UIs is classified as a peer, regardless of who actually typed it. The
classification follows an event-level field the posting client does not control,
and an `origin: {"kind": "human"}` on the posted payload — the same shape the
first-party UI sends — is accepted and stored by the API but ignored by the
receiving CLI, which classifies on the other field.
So a client that is relaying **the account holder's own keystrokes**, using that
account holder's own credentials, cannot say so in any way the receiving session
can rely on.
### Why this matters
#87190 asks for a terminal client for Remote Control sessions, and has been
sitting open with +1s since August. (#37345 and #53719 asked for the same thing
earlier; both were closed by the stale bot rather than by a product decision,
and are now locked.)
If that ships — or if anyone builds it against the existing bridge — every
message it relays arrives as an untrusted peer. In practice that means the
person typing cannot answer their own session's permission prompt, cannot
approve anything, and has a standing "this may not be your user" caveat
attached to every line they type. The session is steerable from a phone but not
from the terminal the person is already sitting in.
The only workaround available to a client is to state authorship in the message
body, which is unverifiable by construction: any sender can type any claim.
### Proposed Solution
Any of these would close it, in rough order of preference:
1. **A first-party / attested client path.** Events already carry device
attestation state. Let a client that authenticates as the account holder and
passes attestation post a message marked as typed by the user, and have the
CLI honour that. Provenance is then verified rather than asserted.
2. **Honour `origin` when, and only when, the event is attested.** The field is
already accepted and stored; this would give it meaning without letting an
unattested poster claim human authority.
3. **A third rendering, minimally.** "Your user typed this, relayed by client
X" — neither a silent typed prompt nor the full peer envelope — so the
receiving agent can weigh a verified relay differently from an anonymous
peer.
What should *not* happen is the shortcut: letting any poster set the field the
caveat rests on. That boundary is load-bearing, and this request is for a
verified path through it, not a hole in it.
Related: #86821 asks for harness-verified lineage on agent-to-agent
`SendMessage` envelopes. Same underlying shape — the recipient cannot verify
who sent something, so it must distrust everything — from the other direction.
### Environment
Observed against a live Remote Control session on Claude Code v2.1.268, with a
terminal client of my own posting user events through the account's own
credentials. Happy to share the exact fields and a reproduction privately if
that is useful; I have kept endpoint and payload specifics out of this report
because the bridge API is private and undocumented.
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