Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channel. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channel/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channelWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channel/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channel/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channel/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channel/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channel/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00521 | $0.00521 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00208 | $0.00208 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00104 | $0.00104 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00052 | $0.00052 |
Grade A, and why
claude-code-imessage-channel 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
CLAUDE.md
This is the iMessage channel plugin for Claude Code, powered by Linq.
What This Plugin Does
When enabled as a channel, this plugin bridges iMessage and your Claude Code session:
- Polls the Linq API for new inbound iMessages every 3 seconds
- Pushes them into the Claude Code session as
<channel>events - Downloads inbound photos to
~/.claude/channels/imessage/inbox/ - Exposes tools for Claude to reply, send, react, edit, and attach files via iMessage
- Auto-sends read receipts and typing indicators
- Tries iMessage first, falls back to SMS/RCS automatically
Channel Events
Messages arrive as:
<channel source="imessage" sender="+1..." chat_id="...">message text</channel>
If the message has a photo, image_path is included in the meta — use Read to view it.
Tools
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
reply |
Reply to an inbound iMessage. Optional: effect, reply_to, files, text_decorations. |
send |
Send to any phone number. Optional: effect, files, text_decorations. Returns chat_id + message_id. |
react |
Tapback reaction: like, love, laugh, dislike, emphasize, question. |
edit_message |
Edit a previously sent message (for streaming progress updates). |
send_link |
Send a URL with a rich link preview card. |
check_capability |
Check if a phone number supports iMessage or RCS. |
Configuration
Credentials are stored in ~/.claude/channels/imessage/.env:
LINQ_TOKEN- Linq API token (required)LINQ_FROM_PHONE- Your Linq phone number (required)
Access control is in ~/.claude/channels/imessage/access.json. Use /imessage:access to manage.
Setup
- Add marketplace:
/plugin marketplace add linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channel - Install:
/plugin install imessage@linq - Configure:
/imessage:configure <token>then/imessage:configure <phone> - Launch:
claude --dangerously-load-development-channels plugin:imessage@linq
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 521 tokens per session scan A d11db3fc87b8
claude-code-imessage-channel CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository linq-team/claude-code-imessage-channel (25 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 521 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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 2026-08-30.
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