whatsapp-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

whatsapp-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from kotevcode/whatsapp-mcp. It costs 233 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for developing a TypeScript server that connects an AI agent to WhatsApp. WhatsApp is a messaging service; the instructions cover its message tools, code layout and commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or debugging the WhatsApp MCP server, including reading groups, querying messages, calculating statistics and sending messages.
Why use it?
They give an agent the project context needed to change the server without overlooking its connection, message storage or validation rules.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is kotevcode/whatsapp-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on whatsapp-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything whatsapp-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kotevcode/whatsapp-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kotevcode/whatsapp-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kotevcode/whatsapp-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00233 $0.00233
Opus 5.5 $0.00093 $0.00093
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00047 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00023

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 47e3aa38814f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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 · 24 lines

What it actually says

WhatsApp MCP Server

Project

MCP server connecting to WhatsApp via Baileys, providing tools for reading group messages, stats, and sending messages. Used as an MCP tool by Claude Code.

Tech Stack

  • TypeScript, Node.js (ESM)
  • Baileys (WhatsApp Web API)
  • MCP SDK (@modelcontextprotocol/sdk)
  • Zod for schema validation

Structure

  • src/whatsapp.ts - WhatsApp connection, message store, history sync
  • src/mcp-server.ts - MCP tool registrations
  • src/store.ts - Message querying, stats computation
  • src/tools/ - Individual tool implementations (groups, messages, stats, send)
  • store/message-store.json - Persisted message store (JSON, flushed every 30s)
  • auth_info/ - WhatsApp auth state (do not commit)

Dev

  • npm run dev - Run with tsx
  • npm run build - Compile with tsc
  • Messages from history sync have string timestamps (not numbers) - both must be handled
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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 233 tokens per session scan A 47e3aa38814f

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whatsapp-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kotevcode/whatsapp-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 233 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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