imessage-group-create

imessage-group-create is a skill for Claude Code from benelser/imessage-tools. It costs 12 tokens per session (280 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive tool for creating a new iMessage group chat with selected contacts. It resolves names and phone numbers, highlights ambiguous or missing matches, and sends the first message after confirmation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resolve contacts, adjust the participant list, confirm who belongs in the chat, and send its opening message.
Why use it?
It helps prevent adding the wrong person by showing the resolved contacts and asking you to confirm the final roster before creating the group. Group naming still has to be done in Messages afterward.

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 resolve contacts, adjust the participant list, confirm who belongs in the chat, and send its opening message.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benelser/imessage-tools/imessage-group-create
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add benelser/imessage-tools --skill imessage-group-create
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.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 280 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 $0.00012 $0.00280
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00112
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00028

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a23a58529e47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

imessage-group-create 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-group-create/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Create a new iMessage group chat interactively.

Step 1: Ask who should be in the group

Ask the user for names, phone numbers, or a mix. They can provide comma-separated values.

Step 2: Resolve contacts

Run:

imessage-tools create-group resolve $ARGUMENTS

Parse the JSON output and present a clean numbered list to the user:

  • Show each resolved contact with name and number
  • Flag any ambiguous matches and ask the user to pick
  • Flag any not-found names and ask for corrections

Step 3: Confirm the roster

Show the final list and ask: "Look good? You can +Name to add or -Name to remove, or 'yes' to proceed." If they add/remove, re-resolve and show the updated list.

Step 4: Get the first message

Ask: "What should the first message be?"

Step 5: Create the group

Run:

imessage-tools create-group send "phone1,phone2,..." "message"

Show the result. Note: group naming must be done in Messages.app after creation.

IMPORTANT: Always confirm with the user before running the send step. Never create the group without explicit "yes" confirmation.

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 · 37 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A a23a58529e47

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imessage-group-create is a skill published in the GitHub repository benelser/imessage-tools (3 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 280 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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