Claudony — The Name That Fits
Date: 2026-04-13 Type: phase-update
RemoteCC was always a placeholder
I knew it the moment I typed it. “RemoteCC” says what the thing does — remote Claude Code — and nothing more. It’s a description dressed up as a name. Fine for a working title. Not something you’d put on a landing page.
The naming exercise started with a concept, not a word. The tool has a controller Claude: a Claude instance with MCP tools that can see every session, create new ones, read their output, send commands. It’s not a terminal multiplexer. It’s not a session manager. It’s something closer to a supervisor — one intelligence that can reach into any running session and act.
The word that kept surfacing was colony. An ant colony, a bee colony — workers operating independently, a central intelligence coordinating them. The controller Claude is the queen. The sessions are organisms. They persist when you’re not watching. They go dormant. They wait.
Claudony — Claude plus colony — cleared a name search cleanly. It sounds like software. You can say it out loud without stumbling. It carries the metaphor without explaining it.
Why the visual language had to be alive
Once the colony concept clicked, the visual direction became obvious.
The first candidate — hex grid, electric cyan on near-black — looked exactly right for a different project. QuarkMind already owns that aesthetic. I’d built it. Starting over with the same palette would make Claudony look like a derivative.
The second direction was bioluminescent: void-black backgrounds, organic glowing nodes connected by curved paths, purples and greens that pulse. Sessions as living organisms. The controller at the centre, active nodes in green, dormant sessions in magenta.
What I liked about it was that it felt alive rather than mechanical. Hex grids are infrastructure. Pulsing nodes are things happening. The distinction matters when the story you’re telling is “your sessions never die.”
The colony network in the hero section of the landing page makes the mental model literal: a hub (the controller) connected by organic paths to named session nodes — api-dev, frontend, research — with dormant ones at the edges. It’s the architecture diagram and the illustration at the same time.
Having a face
The site is at https://mdproctor.github.io/claudony/. The project now has a name that means something, a visual identity that reflects it, and a public face that explains the idea without requiring anyone to read the source.