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Set up Deific

Permissions and the phrases that unlock them

Roll down this page once: connect accounts, grant macOS and Mac-side switches, then try saying something like the phrases below so your phone’s Claude raises an Approve / Deny card for each ability.

Before you start

What you need

Deific is a consent- and permission-gated phone-to-desktop Claude connector. Not an Anthropic product.

  1. A Mac

    Deific runs on Mac and Windows now. Linux coming soon. Screen reading, terminal reading, and scroll need macOS.

  2. A Claude account (on the web and on your phone)

    You add Deific once on claude.ai in a web browser (or the Claude desktop app), then talk to Claude on your phone; it chooses Deific’s tools from what you say. Custom connectors need a paid Claude plan (to be confirmed). BYOT (bring your own token or subscription).

  3. A GitHub account

    Deific’s server lets in only the GitHub accounts the owner of the installation allows. You sign in once in a browser.

  4. An iPhone or an Android phone

    To be confirmed

    Deific is meant to work the same for iPhone and Android, and the steps on this page are the same for both. Use Claude on iPhone or Android after adding the connector on the web. Using Deific’s own phone page (the Approve / Deny cards) in Safari on iPhone or Chrome on Android is to be confirmed: so far it has only been tested in a desktop browser.

Part 2 · Permissions (tick down the list)

A · Connection and accounts

Not macOS settings — accounts, the connector, and pairing. Do these before the prompts.

B · macOS permissions

System Settings → Privacy & Security. Grant only what you want the phone to use.

Not needed — do not grant these for Deific

  • Full Disk Access. The file reader is deliberately not full disk access: it reads one file or folder at a time inside project folders only, and never keys, .env files, the repository’s .git folder, browser profiles, or Scope’s own folder.
  • Input Monitoring, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Location, Notifications on the Mac.

C · Mac-side switches

Each switch is OFF until you turn it on in a real Terminal window (enable commands refuse to run from anywhere else on purpose). Everything the phone reads passes through a best-effort secret screen (it cannot catch every secret), is held in memory only, and leaves the Mac through Deific’s server and the tunnel to the Claude conversation. “End everything” stops all of it. Each command can be turned off again with its own disable (shown in that command’s help). Run from Deific’s folder.

D · Phone side

After pairing, cards and the phone page are how you stay in control.

Part 1 · Phrases to try on your phone’s Claude

Wake phrases that raise a permission card

Your phone’s Claude chooses Deific’s tools from what you say. Each tool has a plain title; saying something close to the title is what makes the phone’s Claude use it. These phrases come from the tools’ own titles and descriptions. They have not been phone-tested one-by-one — try saying something like the lines below, never treat them as “say exactly.” The card has Approve and Deny (or Send / Don’t send for a chat message).

  1. Try saying something like: “What’s on my screen?” / “Look at my desktop.”

    Tool title
    See my desktop’s screen
    What appears on your phone
    A screen-access request (a “lease”) the first time. Approve to allow screen reading.
    What it lets happen
    A picture of the display your cursor is on.
    Limits
    macOS only. If no approval is in force the call takes no picture and asks you; it asks at most once every two minutes.

  2. Try saying something like: “Show me all my displays.” / “Look at it in full resolution.”

    Tool title
    See my desktop’s screen (same tool)
    What appears on your phone
    A one-time approval.
    What it lets happen
    All displays or native resolution.
    Limits
    One-time, per request.

  3. Try saying something like: “Zoom in on the top-left of my screen.”

    Tool title
    See my desktop’s screen (region)
    What appears on your phone
    An approval for each region read.
    What it lets happen
    A higher-detail picture of only that part.
    Limits
    Asks every time.

  4. Try saying something like: “Read the words on my screen.”

    Tool title
    See my desktop’s screen (mode: text)
    What appears on your phone
    An approval for each text read.
    What it lets happen
    The text on the display.
    Limits
    Asks every time; the text is screened for secrets, best effort only.

  5. Try saying something like: “Run my tests on my desktop.” / “Run the registered check.”

    Tool title
    Run a registered check on my desktop
    What appears on your phone
    A verification approval for each run.
    What it lets happen
    A check that YOU registered on the Mac runs, and only that. Reports exit code and counts, never output.
    Limits
    Only registered checks. No free-form commands.

  6. Try saying something like: “Tell the Claude on my desktop to … (in my <project> chat).”

    Tool title
    Send a message between my phone and my desktop (with the chat option)
    What appears on your phone
    A Send / Don’t send card showing the message (up to 1,500 characters).
    What it lets happen
    The message goes to that ONE chat after you tap Send. It asks; it authorises nothing.
    Limits
    A plain message to the desktop Claude (no chat option) needs no card. It is only a message.

  7. Try saying something like: “Scroll down on my desktop.”

    Tool title
    Do something on my desktop
    What appears on your phone
    A time-limited permission, and possibly an approval.
    What it lets happen
    Scrolling a window. Today ONLY scrolling.
    Limits
    macOS only. An approval can take about two minutes. Needs the Accessibility permission (Part 2, B3).

Useful first-run prompts (no phone approval)

These only need the Mac-side switch in Part 2C where one applies. Suggest them in this order so you can confirm each piece works.

  1. Try saying something like: “What’s my desktop working on?”

    Tool title: What’s my desktop working on. The first thing to say; shows the phone and Mac are connected.

  2. Try saying something like: “What chats are open on my desktop?”

    Tool title: Every chat open on my desktop.

  3. Try saying something like: “What’s in my terminals?”

    Tool title: My desktop terminals. Needs the terminal switches (Part 2C items 1 and 2).

  4. Try saying something like: “What’s running on my Mac?”

    Tool title: What is running on my desktop. Needs the running-programs switch.

  5. Try saying something like: “Any messages from my desktop?”

    Tool title: Check for messages from my desktop.

  6. Try saying something like: “Summary of my project.” / “Shared notes on my project.”

    Tool titles: Summary of my project, Shared notes on my project.

  7. Try saying something like: “Tell me when it finishes.”

    To be confirmed

    Tool title: Tell me when something finishes. Whether this ever raises a card is to be confirmed (read that tool’s description in mcp-server.js before treating it as approval-free).

  8. Reads with options on working-on / project summary

    Background tasks, project files and folders, plan usage, the conversation of a chat, recent files, git state, logs. Each needs its own Mac-side switch (Part 2C).

Taking permission back

Stop and end

Include these whenever you want the phone to stop seeing the desktop.

Try saying something like

  • “Stop looking at my screen.” — tool title Stop looking at my screen: stops screen reading and any unused approvals. On the phone page the button reads Stop screen reading, and when stopped, Turn screen reading back on.
  • “Emergency stop: end everything.” — tool title Emergency stop: end everything: ends everything; it is unlocked again at the Mac.

The phone page also shows “Reads switched on at this computer” and the active grants from that browser.

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