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.
npx skills add benelser/imessage-tools --skill imessage-readgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benelser/imessage-toolsWrote 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/skills/benelser/imessage-tools/imessage-read)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/benelser/imessage-tools/imessage-read"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/benelser/imessage-tools/imessage-read/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/skills/benelser/imessage-tools/imessage-read"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/benelser/imessage-tools/imessage-read.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 | $0.00010 | $0.00238 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00095 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00048 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00024 |
Grade A, and why
imessage-read 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
Read recent messages using imessage-tools.
imessage-tools read $ARGUMENTS
The CLI accepts:
read— last 20 messages (all contacts)read <limit>— last N messagesread <limit> <contact>— last N messages from a specific phone/emailread --group "Group Name"— read messages from a named group chatread --group "Group Name" <limit>— read N messages from a group
If the user provides a contact name instead of a number, first resolve it using the contacts command.
Examples:
/imessage-read— show last 20 messages/imessage-read 5— show last 5 messages/imessage-read 10 +15551234567— last 10 from a number/imessage-read --group "Work Chat"— read group chat/imessage-read --group "Family" 50— last 50 from Family group
Show the output to the user.
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 · 29 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A d96ea63449d0
imessage-read is a skill published in the GitHub repository benelser/imessage-tools (3 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 238 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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