Shelly

v8.1.0: Now you can control your smartphone from ChatGPT

• Execute commands in Shelly's terminal from the ChatGPT app (Codex)
• Leave screen operations to ClosePaw and run in a virtual screen in the background (your foreground stays usable)
• Approval required just once on your phone. ChatGPT cannot approve on its own
• Results come back to ChatGPT
• Register an agent with a single ChatGPT command to automatically search papers daily and save them to Obsidian

No Termux. No SSH. A native terminal IDE for Android that runs the real Codex CLI on-device.

Simply write "@agent notify me with a news summary every morning at 8" in natural language to register an agent, then Android's standard alarm (setExactAndAllowWhileIdle) wakes the device with the screen off and runs it unattended. You can register from the home screen widget's ASK field or by voice—you don't even need to open the app. Scheduled execution and widget registration have both been verified on actual hardware (Galaxy Z Fold6). Note that precise alarm timing depends on OS specifications, so devices with aggressive manufacturer battery optimization may not fire reliably.

It includes execution memory that remembers previous run results and carries them forward, skill learning that saves successful procedures as reusable recipes for automatic reuse, and fail-closed design that restricts tools to Codex and local options during unattended runs—cloud keys only if you explicitly enable them.

Local LLM support (llama.cpp) enables fully offline AI use.

Built entirely on a phone by a non-engineer creative director through conversation with AI. GPLv3—fork it and make it your own.