Happy

Code on the go — control AI coding agents from your phone, browser, or terminal.

Free. Open source. Code anywhere.

Installation

npm install -g happy

Installing or updating Happy also installs the two companion CLIs its credential runtime drives: codex-multi-auth goes into npm's global prefix next to happy itself, and saycode-claude-swap is installed with uv, which puts the claude-swap and cswap commands in uv's tool bin directory — Happy looks for them there even when that directory is not on your PATH. Both are installed at the exact versions Happy requires rather than the newest, because Happy checks those versions and reinstalls its own pinned copy if it finds anything else. Set HAPPY_SKIP_COMPANION_TOOLS=1 to skip this step; Happy installs either one on demand when it needs it. Neither can fail the Happy install — a missing npm/uv or a failed install is only a warning.

Migrated from the happy-coder package. Thanks to @franciscop for donating the happy package name!

Usage

Claude Code (default)

happy
# or
happy claude

This will:

1. Start a Claude Code session
2. Display a QR code to connect from your mobile device or browser
3. Allow real-time session control — all communication is end-to-end encrypted
4. Start new sessions directly from your phone or web while your computer is online

More agents

happy codex
happy gemini
happy openclaw

# or any ACP-compatible CLI
happy acp opencode
happy acp -- custom-agent --flag

Daemon

The daemon is a background service that stays running on your machine. It lets you spawn and manage coding sessions remotely — from your phone or the web app — without needing an open terminal.

happy daemon start
happy daemon stop
happy daemon status
happy daemon list

The daemon starts automatically when you run happy, so you usually don't need to manage it manually.

Keeping the daemon running across reboots

If you want the daemon to come back automatically after a reboot — without opening a happy session first — start it from your shell profile so it inherits your normal user session context (PATH, keychain access, OAuth credentials):

# ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc
if [[ -o interactive ]] && [[ -z "$HAPPY_DAEMON_CHECKED" ]]; then
    export HAPPY_DAEMON_CHECKED=1
    () {
        local state=$HOME/.happy/daemon.state.json
        local pid=$(grep -oE '"pid"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*[0-9]+' "$state" 2>/dev/null | grep -oE '[0-9]+')
        if [[ -z "$pid" ]] || ! kill -0 "$pid" 2>/dev/null; then
            happy daemon start >/dev/null 2>&1
        fi
    } &!
fi

The first interactive shell after a reboot triggers the start; subsequent shells short-circuit because the daemon is already running.

macOS users: prefer this shell-init approach over a launchd LaunchAgent. A LaunchAgent runs in an agent domain that is detached from your GUI/Aqua login session, which means the bundled claude-agent-sdk cannot reach the macOS keychain and silently fails authentication ("Failed to authenticate. API Error: 401 terminated", duration_api_ms: 0). If you must use launchd, your wrapper has to read the OAuth access token from ~/.claude/.credentials.json and export it as CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN before exec'ing the daemon — and you'll need to handle token rotation yourself.

Authentication

happy auth login
happy auth logout

Happy uses cryptographic key pairs for authentication — your private key stays on your machine. All session data is end-to-end encrypted before leaving your device.

To connect third-party agent APIs:

happy connect gemini
happy connect claude
happy connect codex
happy connect status

Commands

Agent orchestration

@buzzni/happy-cli includes the exact compatible @buzzni/saycode-cli runtime, so sessions started by Happy can use happy agent without a separate Saycode CLI install. This command is intended for AI agents running inside a Happy/Saycode session; it fails closed outside that session environment.

The supported verbs include capability discovery and owned-child lifecycle operations such as whoami, ls, spawn, prompt, steer, stop, read, and wait. Run happy agent --help for the current machine-readable contract. Happy deliberately does not install a top-level saycode binary, so an independently installed Saycode CLI remains untouched.

Advanced

Environment Variables

Sandbox (experimental)

Happy can run agents inside an OS-level sandbox to restrict file system and network access.

happy sandbox configure
happy sandbox status
happy sandbox disable

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/slopus/happy
cd happy-cli
yarn install
yarn workspace happy cli --help

Requirements

• Node.js >= 20.0.0
• For Claude: claude CLI installed & logged in
• For Codex: codex CLI installed & logged in
• For Gemini: npm install -g @google/gemini-cli + happy connect gemini

Troubleshooting

Cannot find package '@slopus/happy-wire'

Symptom:

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package '@slopus/happy-wire'

Cause: the source package uses the workspace dependency @slopus/happy-wire: file:../happy-wire. Installing or linking the source directory directly can leave the global package without that runtime dependency.

Fix from this checkout:

# from the aplus-dev-studio repo root
cd vendor/happy/packages/happy-cli
corepack pnpm run cli:install

Avoid npm install -g . and npm link for daemon runtime installs. For publish work, prepare a clean package first and guard it:

tmp=$(mktemp -d)
corepack pnpm run build
node scripts/prepare-publish-package.cjs --out "$tmp/package"
node scripts/guard-publish-artifact.cjs "$tmp/package" --install-smoke

Remote terminal — posix_spawnp failed. on macOS

Symptom (web-ui "터미널" tab 또는 daemon log):

[REMOTE-TERMINAL] terminal-open-fwd spawn failed: posix_spawnp failed.

Cause: npm extracts node-pty/prebuilds/darwin-{arm64,x64}/spawn-helper without the executable bit (0o644), so macOS posix_spawnp refuses to execve() it. Linux uses forkpty + execvp and is unaffected.

Auto-fix: shipped in @namsangboy/[email protected]+ — postinstall flips the bit on macOS. Just upgrade:

npm i -g @buzzni/happy-cli@latest
happy daemon stop && happy daemon start

Manual fix (older versions):

chmod +x $(npm root -g)/@buzzni/happy-cli/node_modules/node-pty/prebuilds/darwin-arm64/spawn-helper
chmod +x $(npm root -g)/@buzzni/happy-cli/node_modules/node-pty/prebuilds/darwin-x64/spawn-helper
happy daemon stop && happy daemon start

Or rebuild from source (also works, but requires Xcode CLT):

xcode-select --install   # if not already
npm i -g @buzzni/happy-cli@latest --build-from-source

Other

• happy doctor runs platform diagnostics and is the first thing to try before opening an issue.
• daemon logs live in ~/.happy/logs/*-daemon.log. Grep for [REMOTE-TERMINAL] to inspect terminal-relay traffic without leaking payload bodies (only metadata is logged — bytesIn, bytesOut, exitCode, signal, durationMs).

License

MIT