Start on your desktop. Finish on your laptop.

onthego copies your uncommitted work and your Codex and Claude Code sessions to your other machine. Then you pick up the same session there.

Install onthego See real output

Sending to laptop

Sent to laptop

shop

git status --short

M src/checkout.ts

M src/retry.ts

?? notes/refund-plan.md

onthego sync laptop

Sync: push (this device has new work)

shop

codex resume 0199a88c

ok, where were we?

The retry key is in checkout.ts. Refund tests are next.

This is what it actually prints.

shop — zsh

Real onthego 0.4 output. Paths shortened.

Capture
Staged, unstaged, and untracked files, plus recent agent sessions. Your .env stays put.
Encrypt
Encrypted for the laptop and signed by the desktop.
Send
Over your own SSH. Same Wi‑Fi, or Tailscale.
Resume
Run codex resume on the laptop. Same conversation.

Msrc/checkout.tsstaged
Msrc/retry.tsunstaged
??notes/refund-plan.mduntracked
●codex 0199a88csession
✕.envstays home
Desktop
Laptop
Codex on laptop
ok, where were we?
The retry key is in checkout.ts. Refund tests are next.

sync picks the direction.

Try it. It only moves work away from the side that didn't change.

Changed on this desktop

Changed on the laptop

Handed off earlier

Then run onthego sync laptop

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onthegonow

Works with the machines you have.

If one can ssh into the other, you're set.

Same Wi‑Fi

ssh-copy-id me@laptop.local
onthego device add laptop \
  --host me@laptop.local --install
onthego sync laptop

Anywhere, with Tailscale

onthego tailscale
onthego device add laptop \
  --tailscale me@laptop --install
onthego sync laptop

Your VPS

onthego device add vps \
  --host me@vps.example.com --install
onthego sync vps

No Node.js? Use curl.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/\
peerproblem/onthego/main/install.sh | sh

Tech Specs

Platforms

macOS and Linux, arm64 and amd64

Install

npm install -g @jbaehova/onthego
or the curl installer, or build from source

Needs

Git and OpenSSH on each machine

Connection

Your own SSH. Tailscale optional.

Encryption

age for the receiving device, Ed25519 signatures, pinned device keys

Agents

Codex CLI and Claude Code

Copied

Staged, unstaged, and untracked work, missing Git history, recent agent sessions

Not copied

.env and other credential files, node_modules, caches, Git config, agent logins

Conflicts

Never merged. sync stops and a Git backup keeps the replaced side.

Price

Free. MIT license. No account, no server.

Install onthego.

npm install -g @jbaehova/onthego

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