I Built a Mobile Terminal Around My herdr + Codex Workflow
I Built a Mobile Terminal Around My herdr + Codex Workflow I am building Termish , an open-source mobile remote-work tool for SSH/Mosh terminals, file management, remote screens, and AI-assisted development. The unusual part is that I built much of Termish through Termish itself. My daily workflow is: Termish on my phone → herdr on my host → Codex in the project The development environment and AI tools run on my own machine. My phone is where I enter commands, describe tasks, upload screenshots, inspect changes, and check the resulting UI. Termish is both the product I am building and a tool I use to build it. Put remote work in your pocket. Source code: github.com/ttermish/termish Why do AI-assisted coding on a phone? A phone is not a replacement for a desktop machine. Its screen is smaller. Reading a large codebase is harder. Long debugging sessions are more comfortable on a larger display. Those limitations are real. But AI-assisted development changes part of the workflow. Many tasks become: Describe a requirement. Provide context. Let an agent make changes. Review the output. Run a command or test. Decide what to change next. Some of that loop works well on a phone. For example, when I think of a feature away from my desk, I can open the project and ask an agent to start implementing it. When I find a UI problem, I can upload a screenshot to the host and ask the agent to inspect it together with the code. After the change is done, I can review the diff, run tests, and check the actual UI through a remote screen. The goal is not to write an entire application on a phone. The goal is to make a phone a useful place to start work, inspect work, and keep a task moving. Why another SSH and AI coding tool? This is a fair question. Tools such as Termius and Blink already provide strong SSH, Mosh, and file-management experiences. If you already have a setup that works well, you can run Codex, Claude Code, or other agents through a terminal today. Happy and similar produ