imessage-send

imessage-send is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benelser/imessage-tools. It costs 11 tokens per session (357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for sending messages through iMessage, SMS, or RCS using a contact's name or phone number. It can also send to existing group chats and create link previews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send one-to-one messages, message several contacts, post in an existing group chat, choose a service explicitly, or send a URL with a preview.
Why use it?
It removes the need to look up numbers or manually choose the available messaging service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 357 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00011 $0.00357
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00036

Measured 4d ago against content hash c68d685dfe17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

imessage-send 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 4d 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-send/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Send a message using imessage-tools.

imessage-tools send $ARGUMENTS

The CLI handles:

  • Contact name resolution (e.g. "John" -> phone number via macOS Contacts)
  • Auto-detecting the correct service (iMessage, RCS, SMS) from chat history
  • Service override with --sms, --rcs, or --imessage flags
  • Sending to multiple contacts at once (1:many, comma-separated names)
  • Sending to existing group chats by name (--group flag)
  • Rich link previews via --preview (routes through Messages.app compose so URLs unfurl into og:title/og:image cards; briefly steals focus for ~6s per send)

Examples of how the user might invoke this:

  • /imessage-send "Jane Doe" "Hey what's up?" (1:1 send)
  • /imessage-send "John Smith" "Let's grab lunch" (1:1 send)
  • /imessage-send +15551234567 "Hello!" (1:1 by number)
  • /imessage-send "Jane Doe" "Hello!" --rcs (1:1 with service override)
  • /imessage-send "Jane Doe" "https://example.com/post" --preview (URL with rich preview)
  • /imessage-send "Jane, John, Bob" "Meeting at 3" (1:many individual sends)
  • /imessage-send --group "Work Chat" "Hello team!" (existing group chat)

Parse $ARGUMENTS to extract the recipient and message, then run the command.

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. 4d ago First seen · 32 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A c68d685dfe17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

imessage-send is a skill published in the GitHub repository benelser/imessage-tools (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 357 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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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