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Buddy lets Claude Code use your phone and auto-reply to notifications

An Apache 2.0 Android app now auto-replies to notifications through Claude Code, with a second-model check and no shell or web access for those runs.

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What the research found

Buddy is an Apache 2.0 Android app letting Claude Code use a phone, now with notification rules that auto-reply via the notification Reply field, with a second-model check and no shell or web access for those runs.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Buddy is open source under Apache 2.0 with an APK on GitHub 99%
  2. Notification rules reply through the notification's Reply field, even with the phone locked 99%
  3. Replies to messages show a cancellable countdown only after a second model checks the reply against the rule 95%
  4. Agents triggered by notifications get no shell, file or web access 97%

Evidence

Actionability rated low.