Use your phone to steer a PC game launch
A writer used Claude Code to handle simple desktop chores and start World of Warcraft from a phone-linked PC.
- What they did
- Simon Batt set up Claude Code on a Windows machine by installing Git and turning on computer-control permissions. He first asked it in plain language to open Calculator, do a multiplication, and write the answer into a Notepad file on the desktop. After that, he connected his phone with Dispatch and sent one message that told the agent to open Battle.net, start World of Warcraft, wait through sign-in, and choose a character.
- How it went
- Both demos succeeded. In the game test, Claude returned when it was done, and the character was logged in. The examples were simple, and some commenters said they were not very convincing.
- Tips
- Expect to grant manual access before the agent can operate the computer. For anything involving sign-in or launching a game, make it stop and ask before it enters credentials or clicks the final confirm step.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
On my Windows PC, open [app], carry out [simple task], and save or place the result in [file or app]. Then open [launcher or game], wait until it reaches the point just before [login / launch / other irreversible step], and pause to ask for my approval before entering any password, submitting anything, or starting the final action. After I approve, continue and stop when [desired state] is reached.
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