Anthropic just quietly shipped something significant in Claude Code v2.1.51.

 

 

Anthropic just quietly shipped something significant in Claude Code v2.1.51.

Your local CLI is now a cloud-connected worker.

You can dispatch tasks to your local dev environment from claude.ai, mobile, or API — while you're in a meeting, commuting, or on another device. The task executes locally. Your code, tools, and API keys never leave your machine.

This is the GitHub Actions self-hosted runner pattern — applied to interactive AI coding sessions for the first time.

Three things that make this different from every other AI coding tool:

→ Your code never leaves your machine

→ Your full local stack works — custom tools, private databases, internal APIs

→ It runs while you're away — sleep detection, auto-reconnect on wake

One catch: it's not live yet.

The code is fully shipped in the binary, but hidden behind server-side gates. You can verify your own status by running Claude with verbose logging and looking for [bridge:repl] log lines:

- Skipping: bridge not enabled → not in the rollout yet

- Registered, server environmentId= → you're live

Anthropic's pattern: ship the infrastructure dark, enable server-side by account/org, then broaden. Based on the org UUID requirement in the logs, team and enterprise accounts likely get it first.

The productivity shift is coming. The gap between intent and action is about to get a lot smaller.