Claude in Flight

Trying to vibe code on the plane sucks, as we all know. Even after paying for the WiFi, it’s extremely slow and spotty. However, United and other major airlines offer in-flight messages that works instantly and for free.

Before building this project, I was super behind on work and had an upcoming flight to Boston, so I wanted to use the ~6 hour flight to lock in.

For this project, I set up an MCP server that relays to my Claude cloud agents. The cloud agents have access to my Github repos and can run any commands autonomously. Then, I connected the MCP server to an iMessage assistant I use called Poke (you could use any iMessage or WhatsApp agent you’d like). And then I open sourced the project. The total build time was about 2 hours.

I tried out the setup on my flight and it worked! You can try it out for yourself on your next flight, and hopefully save yourself a few bucks and some headaches :)