texting-send

texting-send is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bowlofarugula/texting. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,558 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A macOS skill for sending an iMessage or SMS to a person from the current session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to text someone by contact name, phone number, or Apple ID email, and optionally add a new recipient to macOS Contacts afterward.
Why use it?
It handles recipient lookup and requires confirmation of the exact recipient and message before anything is sent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the texting plugin — 5 skills, 1 MCP server 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/bowlofarugula/texting/texting-send
Any agent
npx skills add bowlofarugula/texting --skill texting-send
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bowlofarugula/texting

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install texting, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,558 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00054 $0.01558
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00779
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00156

Measured 4d ago against content hash 95c05428b4fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

texting-send scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

never tell the user a dialog will review the send unless you've read
skills/texting-send/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/texting-send — send an iMessage

Arguments passed: $ARGUMENTS (free-form, e.g. "Sam let's confirm Friday" or "+15551234567 the cut is ready")

Resolve the recipient

Pass the recipient straight to send_messageto accepts a phone in +1 format, an Apple ID email, or a macOS contact name. Name resolution is the engine's job: imsg looks the name up in the user's real macOS Contacts itself, so don't pre-resolve names with your own Contacts/AddressBook queries — that duplicates what the tool already does and adds steps the user has to sit through. If you need to confirm who a name maps to (or the name is ambiguous), match it against list_chats/read_messages output — rows carry contact and display names — or simply ask the user for the number/email. After a successful send to someone brand new (handle the user supplied, no Contacts card), offer to add them to macOS Contacts (scripts/add-contact.applescript "<Name>" "<handle>" — the one genuinely manual step, since the engine has no contact-write; one-time Contacts Automation prompt on first use).

Confirm, then send

Always show the exact recipient and exact message text and get a yes before sending. If the user dictated rough intent ("tell her I'm running late"), draft the text, show it, let them edit.

If the approval gate is enabled (approval: true in ~/.claude/texting/config.json), the send also pauses on a client dialog showing the recipient and final text — only the user can answer it. A "cancelled" tool result means they declined: stop there, don't retry or rephrase to resend. If the result says the client can't show approval prompts, relay that message as-is — the send was blocked on purpose (fail-closed), not broken.

The gate never replaces your in-chat confirmation. It is opt-in config that may be off, and a dialog you assumed would appear but doesn't means the message is already gone — that exact failure has happened. Get the explicit yes in chat before calling send_message, every time, and never tell the user a dialog will review the send unless you've read ~/.claude/texting/config.json this session and seen approval: true. When the gate IS on, it's the user's independent backstop on top of your confirmation, not a substitute for it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

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 · 124 lines · 54 tokens per session scan B 95c05428b4fa

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texting-send is a skill published in the GitHub repository bowlofarugula/texting (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,558 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (subtle steering). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.