September 24, 2026
Claude Code keeps working after you close your laptop: Cloud sessions leave preview
On September 23, Cloud sessions left research preview: Claude Code can continue a task after the laptop is closed. Pro and Max subscribers will receive a one-time credit of $100 and $250, respectively.
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Cloud sessions are officially available and no longer in research preview! They let Claude Code keep working even when the laptop is closed. Existing subscribers will receive a one-time credit to try them: $100 on Pro, $250 on Max.
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Previously, closing a laptop stopped Claude Code. Now a cloud session continues the task, and its progress can be checked and guided from another device, including the Claude mobile app.
Cloud sessions are available on Pro, Max, and Team. In Enterprise, they work with a premium seat or a pairing of Chat and Claude Code seats. In the browser, open claude.ai/code, sign in to Claude, connect GitHub, and send a task. A private repository requires the Claude GitHub App.
Git became the starting point. The `claude --cloud "<task>"` command uses the GitHub remote of the current directory on the current branch, rather than the local checkout. Unpushed commits will not make it into the session. If there is no remote or the Claude GitHub App is not installed, Claude Code uploads a local git repository up to 100 MB, excluding untracked files.
Multiple `--cloud` commands create independent parallel sessions. They share limits with all of Claude and Claude Code: there is no separate charge for the cloud VM, but parallel tasks use up the limit faster. Launching requires an Anthropic account through `claude auth login`: Bedrock, Agent Platform, and other third-party providers are not supported.
After a session finishes, the work can be turned into a PR in claude.ai/code or retrieved locally via `--teleport`.
