Chat With Your Coding Sessions

Talk to your AI code editor from your phone — end-to-end encrypted via Alice&Bot.

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code (Copilot), and any editor that supports MCP.

How It Works

Your editor runs a local MCP server that creates an Alice&Bot identity. You scan a QR code, and you're chatting — encrypted end-to-end.

Phone sends a message through Alice&Bot, which forwards it to a Relay, which delivers it to the MCP Server running in your Editor — and replies flow back the same way. The relay never sees plaintext.

Step 1: Install the MCP Server

A single command downloads the binary for your platform:

curl -fsSL https://storage.googleapis.com/alice-and-bot/cli/install.sh | sh

This installs alice-and-bot-mcp to ~/.local/bin/.

The binary is ~100MB because Deno embeds its entire runtime — even a hello world is ~90MB. The actual MCP server code adds very little on top.

Step 2: Configure Your Editor

Add the MCP server to your editor's configuration.

Claude Code

Add to .claude/settings.json (or ask Claude to add it for you):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aliceandbot": {
      "command": "alice-and-bot-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aliceandbot": {
      "command": "alice-and-bot-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add to .windsurf/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aliceandbot": {
      "command": "alice-and-bot-mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

Add to your VS Code settings.json:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "aliceandbot": {
        "command": "alice-and-bot-mcp"
      }
    }
  }
}

Step 3: Start Chatting

Ask your AI agent to "set up Alice&Bot" (or use the aliceandbot prompt if your editor supports MCP prompts)
It will show a QR code — scan it with your phone
This opens an Alice&Bot conversation — start typing
Ask your agent to "check for Alice&Bot messages" to see what you sent
The agent can reply back to you with "reply via Alice&Bot"

That's it. You're chatting with your coding session from your phone, with end-to-end encryption.

Available Tools

Tool	What it does
`aliceandbot_setup`	Creates your identity (first run only), sets up the webhook, shows the QR code
`aliceandbot_check`	Polls for new messages and decrypts them
`aliceandbot_reply`	Sends an encrypted reply back to a conversation

Notes

Your identity persists across sessions at ~/.config/aliceandbot-mcp/ — you only create it once
One session at a time receives messages (the last one to call setup wins)
Polling is manual for now — ask your agent to check when you want updates
All messages are end-to-end encrypted; the relay only stores ciphertext

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