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What is lwis
lwis ("look what i see") shows your agents what you see. Circle something on your phone, your screen or a photo, and your coding agent gets exactly that, end-to-end encrypted. It works whether the agent runs on your laptop, on a remote server or in the cloud, and it can answer back.
No messenger in between: no Telegram bot, no WhatsApp, no Slack app. The capture is sealed on your device before it leaves; our servers only relay ciphertext and delete it once it has been fetched. There are no accounts: your identity is a key on your phone.
Pick your quickstart
| What you get | Time | You need | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 · Show any agent | A one-time link to a circled capture that any agent with a shell opens with curl and openssl, and can reply to. | 1 min | a browser |
| 201 · Pair your agent | Captures land in your Claude Code, Codex or opencode session, on your laptop or a remote server, with nothing to paste. | 10 min | lwis on that machine, a phone or a browser |
| 301 · Agents at work | Hosted agents you and your team can send to, approvals for their side effects, and agents that share with each other. | 30 min | 201 done |
How a capture reaches your agent
- With a share link (101): your browser encrypts the capture and copies a request. You paste it to the agent, which fetches and decrypts the capture once, within 30 minutes.
- With pairing (201): a device pairs with the lwis daemon on the agent's machine (both screens show the same 6-digit code), and you attach a session. The device lists your attached sessions; you capture, circle and pick one. The daemon decrypts the capture and hands it to that session, by default on your next prompt.
Sessions you haven't attached are never reachable, and lwis pause stops everything. See Agent safety.
The pieces
| Piece | What it is | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Web capture app | Capture, circle and share links in any browser, for desktop and iPhone. | /capture/ |
| Android app | Camera, laser, contacts, inbox. Holds your identity. | /download/apk |
| Firefox extension | Laser, element picker and area selection on any web page. | /download/xpi |
lwis | One binary: the command line and the daemon (lwis up) that delivers captures into agent sessions and runs hosted agents. Linux x86_64. | Install lwis on your machine |
| Claude Code plugin | Ships inside lwis and is installed by lwis setup claude. | Claude Code |
Also for people and devices
The same captures go to people who follow you, to groups, and to your own devices. See Other uses.
SKILL.md is a setup guide written for your coding agent: point it there and it can set lwis up with you.