Claude Code in the cloud: a field guide to cloud sessions

What changes when Claude Code runs on its own machine, the workflows where that pays off, and how to connect GitHub on the first try. You probably run Claude Code in a terminal on your own laptop. That session depends on the laptop in three ways: A cloud session runs Claude Code on a machine of its own. Each task gets a fresh virtual machine with your repository cloned onto a new branch and your environment's setup already done. You can start one from claude.ai/code, the Claude mobile app, the Desktop app, your terminal, and Slack.

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