imsg-rpc

imsg-rpc is a skill for Codex from joelhooks/joelclaw. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,664 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for maintaining imsg-rpc, a local service that gives the gateway access to iMessage through structured request-and-response messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure, sign, run, and debug the Unix-socket daemon, including its launch service and Full Disk Access setup.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose and maintain the connection between the gateway and iMessage, including the macOS permissions and service setup it needs.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to configure, sign, run, and debug the Unix-socket daemon, including its launch service and Full Disk Access setup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joelhooks/joelclaw/imsg-rpc
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add joelhooks/joelclaw --skill imsg-rpc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joelhooks/joelclaw

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,664 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 unknown 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 $0.00050 $0.01664
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00832
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00166

Measured 2d ago against content hash e3e1bef4a8ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

imsg-rpc 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 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.

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/imsg-rpc/SKILL.md · 175 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 Changed · -32 lines e3e1bef4a8ab
  2. 9d ago First seen · 207 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A d50ab4c17d5d

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imsg-rpc is a skill published in the GitHub repository joelhooks/joelclaw (63 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,664 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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