Observed arrival · 2026-10-19

localauth routes remote CLI logins through your phone

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An open-source tool lets a CLI waiting on localhost finish its browser-based OAuth login on a phone, then returns the callback to the server.

Landing page captured for the 2026-10-19 issue.

For: Developers completing browser-based CLI logins on remote servers
Worth noticing: Callbacks pass through only for the waiting localhost port and matching OAuth state; the hosted service still sees when a login happens and finishes.

Field notes

The page lists compatibility examples including Codex, gcloud, Wrangler, Vercel, and GitHub CLI, and notes that device-code logins need no paste. It also describes an agent skill for Claude Code and Codex, plus a Cloudflare Workers/D1 self-hosting path that can use Cloudflare Access for sign-in. The homepage links to the source repository and identifies it as MIT licensed.

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