imessage

imessage is a skill for Claude Code from daveremy/imessage-mcp. It costs 22 tokens per session (367 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for reading, searching, and sending messages in Apple’s iMessage service. It can also list chats and group participants, but sending always requires confirmation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check message status, list chats, read conversations, search message history, inspect participants, or send a confirmed message.
Why use it?
It helps find and review conversations without manually searching through the Messages app, while keeping message sending under the user’s control.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the imessage-mcp plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to check message status, list chats, read conversations, search message history, inspect participants, or send a confirmed message.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daveremy/imessage-mcp/imessage
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install imessage-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 367 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 $0.00022 $0.00367
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5871ce8fedd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

imessage 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 8d 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/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

iMessage Companion Skill

You have access to iMessage tools. Follow this workflow:

First-Time Setup

  1. Run im_status to verify database access and contacts resolution
  2. If Full Disk Access is missing, guide the user to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access

Workflow

  1. List chats: Use im_chats to show recent conversations with contact names
  2. Read messages: Use im_messages with a chat ID to read conversation history
  3. Search: Use im_search to find messages containing specific text
  4. Participants: Use im_participants to see who's in a group chat
  5. Send: Use im_send to send a message — always confirm with the user first

Presentation

  • Show contact names first, handles in parentheses
  • Display messages chronologically
  • When paginating, tell the user more messages are available and offer to load them
  • For search results, mention how many messages were searched out of the total

Important

  • Never send a message without explicit user confirmation
  • Chat IDs are the numbers shown by im_chats (ROWID)
  • If contacts aren't resolving, suggest checking Contacts permission for the terminal app
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. 8d ago First seen · 32 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 5871ce8fedd3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

imessage is a skill published in the GitHub repository daveremy/imessage-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 367 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.