A development guide for the BlueBubbles messaging channel plugin in OpenClaw. BlueBubbles connects OpenClaw to Apple Messages through an external service.

Use it when building or updating message delivery, incoming webhooks, health checks, reactions, typing indicators, read status, or attachment handling.

It gives developers the project locations and helper functions needed to change or maintain the plugin consistently.

bluebubbles — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by geezerrrr/motive

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 geezerrrr/motive --skill bluebubbles

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/geezerrrr/motive

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 572 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00030	$0.00572
Opus 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00229
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00114
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00057

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5e602301a4ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bluebubbles 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

bluebubbles — 94% identical, 9 lines differ
bluebubbles-hardened — 94% identical, 13 lines differ
bluebubbles — 91% identical, 9 lines differ
bluebubbles — 91% identical, 9 lines differ
bluebubbles — 89% identical, 11 lines differ

Motive/Resources/Skills.bundle/bluebubbles/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BlueBubbles plugin

Use this skill when working on the BlueBubbles channel plugin.

Layout

Extension package: extensions/bluebubbles/ (entry: index.ts).
Channel implementation: extensions/bluebubbles/src/channel.ts.
Webhook handling: extensions/bluebubbles/src/monitor.ts (register via api.registerHttpHandler).
REST helpers: extensions/bluebubbles/src/send.ts + extensions/bluebubbles/src/probe.ts.
Runtime bridge: extensions/bluebubbles/src/runtime.ts (set via api.runtime).
Catalog entry for onboarding: src/channels/plugins/catalog.ts.

Internal helpers (use these, not raw API calls)

probeBlueBubbles in extensions/bluebubbles/src/probe.ts for health checks.
sendMessageBlueBubbles in extensions/bluebubbles/src/send.ts for text delivery.
resolveChatGuidForTarget in extensions/bluebubbles/src/send.ts for chat lookup.
sendBlueBubblesReaction in extensions/bluebubbles/src/reactions.ts for tapbacks.
sendBlueBubblesTyping + markBlueBubblesChatRead in extensions/bluebubbles/src/chat.ts.
downloadBlueBubblesAttachment in extensions/bluebubbles/src/attachments.ts for inbound media.
buildBlueBubblesApiUrl + blueBubblesFetchWithTimeout in extensions/bluebubbles/src/types.ts for shared REST plumbing.

Webhooks

BlueBubbles posts JSON to the gateway HTTP server.
Normalize sender/chat IDs defensively (payloads vary by version).
Skip messages marked as from self.
Route into core reply pipeline via the plugin runtime (api.runtime) and openclaw/plugin-sdk helpers.
For attachments/stickers, use <media:...> placeholders when text is empty and attach media paths via MediaUrl(s) in the inbound context.

Config (core)

channels.bluebubbles.serverUrl (base URL), channels.bluebubbles.password, channels.bluebubbles.webhookPath.
Action gating: channels.bluebubbles.actions.reactions (default true).

Message tool notes

Reactions: The react action requires a target (phone number or chat identifier) in addition to messageId. Example: action=react target=+15551234567 messageId=ABC123 emoji=❤️

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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.

1mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 5e602301a4ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bluebubbles is a skill published in the GitHub repository geezerrrr/motive (118 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 572 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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