Start a Code session

Code is the coding agent, and it runs on the phone: sessions open on the device, commands run in a sandboxed terminal on the device, and the files it reads and writes are the phone’s. No computer has to be awake.

Before the first session

The terminal of a Code session runs every command through the bridge — the same one Settings → Phone control pairs. With the bridge down, no terminal and no command can start, and Code tells you so when you open it, with a way to Settings. Connect TALOS to the phone first; after a phone restart, reconnect it.

Start a session

1. Open Code from the menu.
2. Tap New, or simply write below: the first message starts the session.

Sessions are listed by date — today, yesterday, the last 7 and 30 days — each with its state: Running, Waiting for approval, Interrupted or Concluded with an error. A session can be renamed or deleted from its actions; deleting removes it from the phone for good.

Choose the model

Each session has its own model and provider: any OpenRouter model, or OpenAI, DeepSeek or Ollama directly. Anthropic and Gemini are recognized and refused with that reason, rather than pretending to work. A model on the phone cannot drive a Code session yet: choosing one is refused, not left to fail halfway through an answer.

Follow the work

• Commands run on the phone, shown in plain words before they run; their output comes back into the conversation.
• Approvals are per tool, not per session: reading a file and deleting one are separate decisions.
• Tool calls collapse into groups, with a diff for each file changed.
• Long conversations are compacted, and you see it happen.
• Delegation: a session can hand a self-contained sub-task to a child agent that starts with nothing but the instruction it was given.

Close the app and come back: the session is where you left it, with the model it was using and what it was waiting for.

If it does not start

• “TALOS is not connected to this phone” — the bridge is down: turn on wireless debugging, then reconnect from Settings → Phone control.
• “Code couldn’t start its terminal on this phone” — close and reopen TALOS; that usually fixes it.
• “Session not found” — the session no longer exists; go back to Code and choose one from the list.