imessage

imessage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emanueleielo/ciana-parrot. It costs 34 tokens per session (391 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A macOS bridge for reading and sending iMessage or SMS messages through Apple's Messages app. It works with phone numbers and Apple IDs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing chats, reading conversation history, and sending text messages or image attachments as iMessage or SMS.
Why use it?
It lets the coding agent handle message history and sending from the Mac while keeping recipient and message confirmation in the user's control.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Listing chats, reading conversation history, and sending text messages or image attachments as iMessage or SMS.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot/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 emanueleielo/ciana-parrot --skill imessage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 391 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 $0.00034 $0.00391
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 11d ago against content hash 91a31190d280, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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 · 60 lines

What it actually says

iMessage

Use the imessage bridge to read and send iMessage/SMS via macOS Messages.app.

When to Use

  • User asks to send an iMessage or SMS
  • Reading iMessage conversation history
  • Checking recent chats

When NOT to Use

  • Telegram messages -> reply normally (Ciana routes automatically)
  • Any other messaging platform

Commands

All commands run via host_execute(bridge="imessage", command="...").

List Chats

imsg chats --limit 10 --json

View History

imsg history --chat-id 1 --limit 20 --json
imsg history --chat-id 1 --limit 20 --attachments --json

Send Messages

imsg send --to "+14155551212" --text "Hello!"
imsg send --to "+14155551212" --text "Check this" --file /path/to/image.jpg
imsg send --to "+14155551212" --text "Hi" --service imessage
imsg send --to "+14155551212" --text "Hi" --service sms

Safety Rules

  1. Always confirm recipient and message content before sending
  2. Never send to unknown numbers without explicit user approval
  3. Rate limit - don't spam

Setup (on host)

  • Install: brew install steipete/tap/imsg
  • macOS with Messages.app signed in
  • Grant Full Disk Access and Automation permission for Messages.app
  • Uncomment imessage bridge in config.yaml, restart gateway
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. 11d ago First seen · 60 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 91a31190d280

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imessage is a skill published in the GitHub repository emanueleielo/ciana-parrot (77 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 391 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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