iOS companion
Pair an iPhone directly with the Dash Bot instance running on your computer.
The native iOS companion is a thin client. Your computer remains the only machine that owns agent processes, credentials, transcripts, SQLite data, and computers.
What it can do
- Discover and pair on the same LAN, or connect through Tailscale
- List bots and rooms, read paged transcripts, send messages, and interrupt work
- Answer approvals and questions, including narrow always-allow grants
- Search, manage tasks, react, share, and navigate message versions
- Follow resumable live updates and optionally view a bot's cloud computer
Pairing
The desktop opens a two-minute pairing window with a high-entropy QR credential and a six-digit manual fallback. Redeeming either closes the window and returns a separate per-device token stored in iOS Keychain.
The computer stores only a digest of the device token. Revoking the phone from desktop Settings invalidates future requests.
Network options
- Same trusted Wi-Fi: Bonjour discovery and direct HTTP.
- Away from home: Tailscale on both devices with the computer's MagicDNS name.
There is no hosted Dash Bot relay. Bonjour does not cross Tailscale, so remote connections use manual address entry.
Security boundary
The companion sidecar uses a default-deny route allowlist. Provider keys, pairing administration, Local VM lifecycle, webhook secrets, team import/export, and internal peer-agent routes remain unreachable from the phone.
Foreground-oriented connection
Live and replayed events can produce alerts while the companion is connected, but a terminated iOS app cannot be awakened without a future APNs relay.