diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 839a8699e..5e3de19d9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 - ISPManager recipe and docs.
 - Symfony 5 recipe.
 - Command for checking if a deploy is unlocked. [#2150] [#2150]
+- `runLocally` function now accepts string or a Closure as first parameter [#2170]
 
 ### Fixed
 - Normalize CRLF to LF new line endings. [#2111]
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@
 - When symfony_env is set to dev, require-dev are not installed. [#2035]
 - Fixed exit status of rollback command when there are no releases to rollback to. [#2052]
 - When the second parameter $options passed to run() and runLocally(), use it to overwrite default env config. [#2165]
+- Fixed `recipe/check_remote.php` calling `get('bin/php)` in remote host context twice [#2170]
 
 
 ## v6.8.0
@@ -582,7 +584,7 @@
 - Fixed typo3 recipe.
 - Fixed remove of shared dir on first deploy.
 
-
+[#2170]: https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/issues/2170
 [#2165]: https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/issues/2165
 [#2150]: https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/issues/2150
 [#2111]: https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/pull/2111
diff --git a/recipe/deploy/check_remote.php b/recipe/deploy/check_remote.php
index 820e8865f..3528a1c95 100644
--- a/recipe/deploy/check_remote.php
+++ b/recipe/deploy/check_remote.php
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@
             $opt = '--heads';
         }
 
-        $remoteLs = runLocally(sprintf("%s ls-remote $opt $repository $ref", get('bin/git')));
+        $remoteLs = runLocally(function () use ($opt, $repository, $ref) {
+            $cmd = sprintf("%s ls-remote $opt $repository $ref", get('bin/git'));
+            return run($cmd);
+        });
         if (strstr($remoteLs, "\n")) {
             throw new Exception("Could not determine target revision. '$ref' matched multiple commits.");
         }
diff --git a/src/functions.php b/src/functions.php
index de994a4ee..2cb014c21 100644
--- a/src/functions.php
+++ b/src/functions.php
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 namespace Deployer;
 
+use Closure;
 use Deployer\Exception\Exception;
 use Deployer\Exception\GracefulShutdownException;
 use Deployer\Exception\RunException;
@@ -339,24 +340,43 @@ function run($command, $options = [])
 /**
  * Execute commands on local machine
  *
- * @param string $command Command to run locally.
+ * @param string|Closure $command Command to run locally, or a closure that will be executed in local machine context
  * @param array $options
  * @return string Output of command.
  */
 function runLocally($command, $options = [])
 {
-    $process = Deployer::get()->processRunner;
-    $command = parse($command);
+    if ($command instanceof Closure) {
+        $input = Context::has() ? input() : null;
+        $output = Context::has() ? output() : null;
 
-    $env = array_merge_alternate(get('env', []), $options['env'] ?? []);
-    if (!empty($env)) {
-        $env = array_to_string($env);
-        $command = "export $env; $command";
-    }
+        $localhostContext = new Context(new Localhost(), $input, $output);
+        Context::push($localhostContext);
+        try {
+            $output = $command();
+            if (!is_string($output)) {
+                $output = '';
+            }
+        } finally {
+            Context::pop();
+        }
+
+        $output = rtrim($output);
+        return $output;
+    } else {
+        $command = parse($command);
+        $env = array_merge_alternate(get('env', []), $options['env'] ?? []);
 
-    $output = $process->run(new Localhost(), $command, $options);
+        return runLocally(function () use ($command, $options, $env) {
+            if (!empty($env)) {
+                $env = array_to_string($env);
+                $command = "export $env; $command";
+            }
 
-    return rtrim($output);
+            $output = run($command, $options);
+            return $output;
+        });
+    }
 }
 
 /**