channels

A skill for checking the status of messaging channels such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, iMessage, Slack, and Fakechat. It reports which channels are available and gives the command needed to launch them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list channel status, inspect one channel, get a launch command, include installed-but-unauthenticated channels, or launch while explicitly skipping permission checks.
Why use it?
It lets you quickly see whether a messaging channel is ready and what remains before launching it. It distinguishes status reporting from installing or authenticating a channel.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/crisandrews/clawcode/channels
Any agent
npx skills add crisandrews/ClawCode --skill channels
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/crisandrews/ClawCode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,338 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 $0.00081 $0.01338
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00669
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00134

Measured 2d ago against content hash 23d69fc00e20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

channels 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 2d 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.

Key `runtime.status` values: `idle_other_instance` (lock held by another session — the main one), `logged_out` (re-link needed), `lock_error` (filesystem/PID-file problem). Never tell the user to run `/whatsapp:configure
skills/channels/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Channels — messaging status + launch

Diagnose messaging channel plugins and give the user the exact command to load them. This skill does NOT install channels (use /agent:messaging) or authenticate them (per-channel skills like /whatsapp:configure) — it reports state and hands back a launch command.

This is a CORE feature. See docs/channels.md for details.

Dispatch

User says Action
/agent:channels or /agent:channels list Call channels_detect({ format: "table" }) and print card
/agent:channels status [<name>] Call channels_detect({ format: "json" }), filter by name if given, format single channel
/agent:channels launch Call channels_detect({ format: "launch" }) and print only the command
/agent:channels launch --with-installed Call with includeInstalledOnly: true — includes installed-but-not-authenticated
/agent:channels launch --skip-permissions Call with skipPermissions: true — adds the dangerous flag to the command (warn the user)

List flow

  1. Call channels_detect({ format: "table" })
  2. Print the returned text verbatim — it already has the table, next-steps hints, the launch command, and a ⚠️ Runtime block when a channel server is up but not delivering inbound (see Runtime warnings below)
  3. If any channels show under Installed and the user is new, remind: "Install a channel with /agent:messaging <name>"

Status flow (single channel)

  1. Call channels_detect({ format: "json" })
  2. Find the entry where name matches (case-insensitive)
  3. If not found, respond: "I don't track a channel called <name>. Known channels: whatsapp, telegram, discord, imessage, slack, fakechat."
  4. Otherwise print a compact block:
📡 <label>
   kind:           <development|official|integration>
   installed:      <✅ | ❌>  (<detail>)
   authenticated:  <✅ | ❌ | ⏸️>  (<detail>)
   active:         <❓ | ❌>  (<detail>)
   next:           <setupHint>
  1. If the entry has a runtime field, surface it — see Runtime warnings.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 2d ago First seen · 88 lines · 81 tokens per session scan B 23d69fc00e20

Subscribe to this mod's changes

channels is a skill published in the GitHub repository crisandrews/ClawCode (62 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,338 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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