What is wolfies-imessage-gateway CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for an iMessage Gateway CLI on macOS, including its project structure, build commands, and tests.

Use it to run the full test suite, test one file, measure coverage, sync macOS contacts, and run benchmarks.

It gives a coding agent the project-specific information needed to work consistently in the repository.

How wolfiesch/wolfies-imessage-gateway configures Claude Code

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Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5.5	$0.00694	$0.00694
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00347	$0.00347
Haiku 4.5	$0.00173	$0.00173

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Grade A, and why

wolfies-imessage-gateway 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.

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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 · 228 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

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

Project Overview

iMessage Gateway CLI for macOS. Send and read iMessages through Claude Code with contact intelligence, fuzzy name matching, and semantic search (RAG).

Architecture: Gateway CLI (MCP-Free)

19x faster than MCP-based alternatives (40ms vs 763ms per operation)
Direct Python CLI execution via Bash tool calls
No MCP framework dependency

Build & Test Commands

# Run all tests
pytest tests/ -v

# Run specific test file
pytest tests/test_contacts_sync.py -v

# With coverage
pytest --cov=src tests/

# Sync contacts from macOS Contacts app
python3 scripts/sync_contacts.py

# Run performance benchmarks
python3 -m Texting.benchmarks.run_benchmarks

Architecture

Gateway CLI Flow

Claude Code ──(Bash tool)──> gateway/imessage_client.py
                                    │
                                    ├── src/contacts_manager.py
                                    │       └── Loads contacts from config/contacts.json
                                    │
                                    ├── src/messages_interface.py
                                    │       ├── AppleScript → Messages.app (send)
                                    │       └── SQLite → ~/Library/Messages/chat.db (read)
                                    │
                                    └── src/rag/unified/
                                            ├── retriever.py    # UnifiedRetriever facade
                                            ├── imessage_indexer.py  # Incremental iMessage indexing
                                            └── index_state.py  # Watermark tracking

Available Commands (27 total)

Category	Commands
Messaging (3)	`send`, `send-by-phone`, `add-contact`
Reading (12)	`messages`, `find`, `recent`, `unread`, `handles`, `unknown`, `attachments`, `voice`, `links`, `thread`, `scheduled`, `summary`
Groups (2)	`groups`, `group-messages`
Analytics (3)	`analytics`, `followup`, `reactions`
Contacts (1)	`contacts`
RAG (6)	`index`, `search`, `ask`, `stats`, `clear`, `sources`

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 lines

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wolfies-imessage-gateway CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository wolfiesch/wolfies-imessage-gateway (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,735 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 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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