How to use Nura Dev to maximize your productivity

The biggest tax on a coding session isn't typing — it's waiting. Waiting for a build, a test suite, a long refactor, a research pass. Nura Dev turns that dead time into progress by putting your Claude Code session in your pocket.

Nura Dev pairs your phone to a running Claude Code session through a secure relay. You speak; Claude hears it as a message. Claude replies; your phone reads it back. Tool calls that need approval show up on your phone so you can allow or deny them from anywhere. The result: you're no longer chained to the keyboard to keep work moving.

Here's how to get the most out of it.

Set up once, in about a minute

1. Install the plugin. In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add https://github.com/nuradevapp/plugin.git, then /plugin install nuradev@nuradev, then /reload-plugins.
2. Launch with the channel enabled so the plugin can talk to your phone.
3. Pair your phone. Run /nuradev:connect to get a 6-character code, open the Nura Dev app, and enter it. The pairing persists — you only do this once per project.

After that, the session on your laptop and the one in your pocket stay in lockstep.

Five ways it earns its keep

1. Start the long job, then walk away

Give Claude a substantial task — a migration, a test sweep, a multi-file refactor — and then step away from your desk. As Claude works, the activity feed streams every tool call to your phone, so you always know what it's doing. When it hits something that needs a decision, you get a message instead of a stalled cursor waiting on an empty terminal.

2. Approve tool calls from anywhere

The permission relay is the heart of hands-free work. When Claude wants to run a Bash command or write a file, the request appears on your phone with a preview. Tap allow or deny. Your laptop's terminal and your phone stay in sync — whichever you answer on wins.

The trick is to front-load trust: allow the safe, repetitive tool calls quickly so Claude keeps momentum, and save your attention for the ones that actually change something irreversible.

3. Drive with your voice, review with your eyes

Speaking is faster than typing for most instructions — "run the tests again," "commit this and open a PR," "explain why that failed." Replies come back as text-to-speech so you can keep your eyes elsewhere, but the full text is on screen too. Since the 1.10 update you can select text directly in a reply, so copying a command or a file path out of a message is a tap away.

4. Send context, not just words

Attach a screenshot of a broken UI, a crash log, or a spec document to a voice message and Claude reads it natively. It works the other way too: Claude can send documents and files back to your phone alongside a reply — handy for reviewing a generated changelog or a diff summary on the go.

5. Reclaim the in-between moments

A standup, a commute, a coffee break, a walk — these are exactly when a long task finishes or needs a nudge. With the session in your pocket, you unblock Claude in ten seconds instead of losing the thread until you're back at your desk. Small unblocks, compounded across a day, are where the real time savings live.

Habits that make it click

• Keep spoken instructions short and concrete. One clear ask per message beats a rambling paragraph — it transcribes more accurately and Claude acts faster.
• Batch your approvals. If you know a task will trigger a run of safe commands, stay in the app for a minute and clear them in one sitting rather than context-switching repeatedly.
• Let the activity feed orient you. Before you reply, glance at what Claude just did. The feed is your ground truth for where the session is.
• Use the task board. When Claude tracks work as tasks, they sync to a persistent board on your phone, so you can see what's done and what's next at a glance.
• Trust, but verify the irreversible. Read the preview on destructive actions — deletes, force pushes, schema changes — before you allow them.

The mindset shift

The point of Nura Dev isn't to code from your phone — it's to stop your phone-time and your away-from-desk time from being a hard stop on progress. Treat Claude Code like a capable teammate who occasionally needs a quick yes/no or a nudge, and let Nura Dev be the channel that reaches you wherever you are. The keyboard is still where deep work happens; Nura Dev just makes sure the work never waits on you being in front of it.