Two ways Onepilot puts an agent on your iPhone: framework agents through a deploy wizard, terminal-native agents inside the SSH shell. Here is the current map.
Onepilot separates agents into two surfaces. Framework agents (OpenClaw, Hermes, Paperclip) install on any host you can SSH into — a Mac mini at home, a Raspberry Pi, a work laptop, a NAS running sshd, or a remote VPS — through a one-tap deploy wizard, then run as persistent background processes you supervise from your iPhone. Terminal-native agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI) live inside the SSH session — the phone is the terminal. Both share the same primitives: SSH transport, iOS Keychain credentials, 23+ LLM providers, and channel routing through Telegram, Discord, or Slack. The list of supported framework agents grows by adding adapters, not by rewriting the app.
Personal AI assistant with a Gateway-and-nodes architecture.
Onepilot provisions the OpenClaw Gateway on any host you SSH into — your Mac mini, a Linux box at home, a Windows machine, a Raspberry Pi, or a $5/month VPS — and pairs the iPhone as a node. The Gateway lives wherever you put it; the iPhone is the supervisor.
Self-improving agent from NousResearch — Linux/macOS/WSL2/Termux only, until now.
Hermes does not officially support iOS. Onepilot deploys the Hermes runtime to any Linux or macOS host you can SSH into — a Mac mini at home, a Linux box, a Raspberry Pi, or a remote VPS — and drives it from iPhone via Telegram, Discord, or Slack.
Anthropic's coding agent — already available through the Onepilot terminal.
Claude Code is a terminal CLI. Because Onepilot already includes a real PTY terminal, Claude Code works out of the box: SSH into your host, run claude, use it interactively. No wizard step needed. The value Onepilot adds is the layer around the shell — file browser, git, cron, channel routing, and an iOS Keychain-backed API key.
OpenAI's coding agent — already available through the Onepilot terminal.
Codex CLI is a terminal CLI like Claude Code. It works today inside the Onepilot SSH session — install it once on your host, then run codex from any PTY tab. iOS Keychain holds your API key; the file browser, git tab, and cron tab wrap around the shell.
Lightweight agent runtime targeted at single-purpose loops.
Paperclip routes through the same AgentFrameworkRegistry and GatewayTransportFactory as OpenClaw and Hermes. It will deploy through the same wizard once the adapter lands.
Framework agents are persistent: they have their own runtime, memory, skill files, and event loop, and they expect to live on a host machine that stays up. The host is your call — a Mac mini in your closet, a Raspberry Pi on the desk, a NAS running sshd, a Windows tower at the office, or a $5/month VPS. The right deploy model is a wizard — pick the host, pick the LLM, pick the channel, walk away. That's where OpenClaw, Hermes, Paperclip live.
Terminal-native agents are interactive CLIs you run inside an SSH session. They start when you type their name and stop when you exit — no wizard step. Claude Code and OpenAI Codex CLI work in Onepilot today because Onepilot already includes a real PTY terminal: install the CLI once on your host, SSH in from your phone, and run it. Onepilot's value here is the layer around the shell: file browser, git, cron, channel routing, the same iOS Keychain that holds your framework-agent keys.
Both surfaces share one routing layer: the AgentFrameworkRegistry on the iOS side, and the SSH transport plus channel plugins on the server side. Adding a new framework agent means writing an adapter, not rewriting the app — which is why the “On the path” cards above are concrete plans, not vague promises.
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