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Mom God-mode Setup

One plan: Mom's own assistant she just talks to, with you running it for her from anywhere — built in person next Saturday · as of Mon May 18

Everything you asked for is doable as you pictured it: open up the computer for Mom, have her work it herself by talking, and have you able to run it for her from anywhere. This single plan replaces the two earlier half-drafts (the account/voice one and the remote-control one) and locks every open decision so there's nothing left to relitigate.

What still needs answering

Almost everything here is something Claude sets up. Only two things are still open, and both come from a short sit-down with Mom — not a chore list for you:

1. The PC's basic specs — what processor and how much memory it has, and whether she leaves it on and online. (Decides nothing major; the heavy work runs on Anthropic's side, but it confirms the light setup is the right call and tells us if the machine stays reachable.)
2. The brain-dump with Mom — twenty minutes of her telling us, in her words, what she actually wants out of this. That shapes how the assistant greets her and what it helps with on day one. Prompts for that are right below.

The brain-dump with Mom — what to ask

Loose questions, her talking freely, you just listening. Not a survey — the goal is to hear what she'd actually use, in her own words.

• What do you do on the computer most days? Walk me through a normal sitting at it.
• What's annoying or slow about it? What makes you give up on something?
• What do you wish it could just do for you if you could ask out loud?
• When you want to look something up, write to someone, or remember something — how do you do that now?
• How's the hearing and the eyes lately? (She runs the TV loud — worth knowing whether spoken replies need to be louder, slower, or backed up by big on-screen text.)
• Do you leave the computer on, or shut it down each night? Is it usually on the internet?
• Anything you've wanted to try on it but it felt like too much hassle?

These get asked in conversation. The answers tune the assistant's voice and its starting abilities — they don't gate the build.

How Mom uses it, day to day

She opens the Claude desktop app — a clean side-panel chat. She types or talks; it answers and, when she asks, it does things for her. It's forgiving: she can ramble, change her mind, start over — that's normal for it, and starting a fresh chat is always one click away. Nothing she does in it can break the computer.

Because it's signed into her own family email identity, it's genuinely hers — her history, her space, separate from your accounts and your twin work. Later it can be connected to her own mail and calendar so it actually does things for her, all inside her own boundary, never crossing into yours.

The app is the friendly face. The engine that lets it actually do things on the PC — and lets you reach in — is the "Apex Junior" layer below. Mom never has to see or touch that part.

"Apex Junior" — the engine you already trust

This is the part you actually care about: how Claude operates the machine so Mom talks and Claude does, and how you co-drive. It is the exact mechanism that runs your Apex server today, copied onto this PC — not something new and untested.

It's a small task set to start when the PC logs in. It phones outward on its own and hands back a session link. You open that link from your phone or laptop and you're in the same working session — that's the co-drive, one shared link, not a second connection fighting hers. It's scoped to one dedicated working folder, not her whole computer. It narrates what it's doing and shows a small status note, so it's always visible; closing the window or signing out stops it instantly. Nothing destructive ever runs on its own.