imessage-catchup

imessage-catchup is a skill for Claude Code from benelser/imessage-tools. It costs 16 tokens per session (103 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns a long technical document, design proposal, or project plan into a one-page summary for busy or non-technical readers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare updates and approval documents for executives, steering committees, finance teams, project sponsors, or partners.
Why use it?
It removes the effort of finding the decision, impact, costs, timeline, risks, and requests buried in a dense document. This gives stakeholders a short version they can read and act on quickly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the imessage-tools plugin — 6 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare updates and approval documents for executives, steering committees, finance teams, project sponsors, or partners.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benelser/imessage-tools/imessage-catchup
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.

Any agent
npx skills add benelser/imessage-tools --skill imessage-catchup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benelser/imessage-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install imessage-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 103 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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 $0.00016 $0.00103
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00041
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00010

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f9f53b9df452, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

imessage-catchup 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.

skills/imessage-catchup/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Show messages received since the user's last sent message using imessage-tools.

imessage-tools catchup $ARGUMENTS

No arguments needed. Optionally pass a number of hours to look back.

Examples:

  • /imessage-catchup — messages since your last sent message
  • /imessage-catchup 2 — messages from the last 2 hours
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. 1mo ago First seen · 17 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A f9f53b9df452

Subscribe to this mod's changes

imessage-catchup is a skill published in the GitHub repository benelser/imessage-tools (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 103 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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