A local MCP server for reading and handling iMessages, Apple’s built-in text messages, through a configured Bun-based program. MCP is a standard way for tools and AI assistants to communicate.

Use it as the messaging connection behind tools that read or work with iMessages.

It provides an assistant with a local connection to the messaging service instead of requiring manual message transfer.

imessage — MCP server by bowlofarugula

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 mcp/bowlofarugula/texting/imessage

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bowlofarugula/texting

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

imessage 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

whatsapp — 89% identical, 2 lines differ

.mcp.json · 9 lines

What it actually says

{
  "imessage": {
    "command": "/bin/sh",
    "args": [
      "-c",
      "BUN=\"$(command -v bun || echo \"$HOME/.bun/bin/bun\")\"; exec \"$BUN\" run --cwd \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\" --shell=bun --silent start"
    ]
  }
}

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.

yesterday First seen · 9 lines scan A 8c9ca873537f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

imessage is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository bowlofarugula/texting (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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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imessage

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

Copies of this mod

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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