Claude goes "local hands": cloud sessions with a deliberate-grant local folder
From the AI digest for 2026-10-05
What happened: Dan Fein: "Your Claude Projects cloud session can now connect to a folder you approve on your computer. The session stays in the cloud and only reaches for that local folder when a task needs it, reading and editing the files in place. Starting to roll out today." A commenter coins the pattern's name — "local hands" — and notes it's "also coming to cowork" (via trq212 RT, ~6:00 PM ET).
What's genuinely new: the cloud-agent ↔ local-files bridge as permission design: scoped, explicit, opt-in access — the same deliberate-grant philosophy Apple's Oct 2 full-disk clamp enforces adversarially, built forward as product by the other camp. Also note the vocabulary: "local hands" is the practitioner name for the cloud-model/local-hands split the dark-factory thread keeps describing. X-grade — no docs link in feed.
Watch: docs on approval mechanics (scope, revocation, audit); the Cowork version; whether Dots/Codex match the bridge.
Links: trq212 RT