whatsapp-mcp CLAUDE.md

whatsapp-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from eddmann/whatsapp-mcp. It costs 2,608 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for a Go-based WhatsApp connector that lets AI assistants access chats and messages through the Model Context Protocol, a standard way for assistants to use external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or maintaining the WhatsApp connector, building its binary, starting it for QR-code pairing, formatting Go code, or cleaning compiled output.
Why use it?
They give developers the commands and project details needed to build, run, format, and clean the connector correctly, including its SQLite search database and WhatsApp pairing.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/eddmann/whatsapp-mcp/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eddmann/whatsapp-mcp

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.02608 $0.02608
Opus 5 $0.01304 $0.01304
Sonnet 5 $0.00522 $0.00522
Haiku 4.5 $0.00261 $0.00261

Measured 5d ago against content hash 92c69ef52f58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

whatsapp-mcp CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Overview

WhatsApp MCP is a Go-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects to WhatsApp via whatsmeow, persists messages/chats to SQLite with FTS5, and exposes MCP tools over stdio for AI assistants like Claude/Cursor.

Build Commands

Standard Build

make build

Builds with CGO enabled and SQLite FTS5 support to bin/whatsapp-mcp. CGO is required for go-sqlite3.

Build and Run

make run

Builds and executes the binary. On first run, displays a QR code for WhatsApp pairing.

Clean

make clean

Removes the compiled binary.

Format

make format

Formats Go source code using go fmt.

Alternative Build (without Makefile)

CGO_ENABLED=1 go build -tags "sqlite_fts5" -o bin/whatsapp-mcp ./cmd/whatsapp-mcp

Architecture

Core Components

cmd/whatsapp-mcp/main.go

  • Entry point: initializes store, WhatsApp client, services, and MCP server
  • Registers 7 MCP tools covering chats, messages, search, messaging, media, and status
  • Handles graceful shutdown (SIGINT/SIGTERM) to disconnect WhatsApp and close DBs
  • Runs WhatsApp connection in background goroutine with QR authentication
  • Serves MCP over stdio using mark3labs/mcp-go

Tools registered:

  • Chat management: list_chats
  • Message operations: list_messages, search_messages (with date filters), catch_up (intelligent activity summary)
  • Messaging: send_message (unified tool for text, media, or both with fuzzy name matching and reply/threading)
  • Media: download_media
  • Status: get_connection_status

internal/wa/client.go

  • Wraps whatsmeow.Client with store integration
  • Provides core WhatsApp client initialization and handler registration

internal/wa/sync.go

  • Event handlers: handleMessage persists incoming messages, handleHistorySync backfills history
  • Processes WhatsApp events and syncs to local database

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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whatsapp-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository eddmann/whatsapp-mcp (5 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,608 tokens to every session, about $0.0130 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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