imsg

imsg is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from metaspartan/cybara. It costs 19 tokens per session (252 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of imsg, MIT.

A skill for using imsg, a command-line tool that reads and sends iMessage and SMS through Messages.app on macOS.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list chats, inspect message history, monitor a conversation, or send text and file attachments after confirming the recipient and message.
Why use it?
It gives an agent clear commands for viewing chats, reading history, watching new messages, and sending messages, along with the required macOS permissions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 252 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00019 $0.00252
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00126
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00025

Measured 6d ago against content hash f44658108e5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

imsg 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 6d 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

This is a copy

92% identical to imsg — 23 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/imsg/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

imsg

Use imsg to read and send Messages.app iMessage/SMS on macOS.

Requirements

  • Messages.app signed in
  • Full Disk Access for your terminal
  • Automation permission to control Messages.app (for sending)

Common commands

  • List chats: imsg chats --limit 10 --json
  • History: imsg history --chat-id 1 --limit 20 --attachments --json
  • Watch: imsg watch --chat-id 1 --attachments
  • Send: imsg send --to "+14155551212" --text "hi" --file /path/pic.jpg

Notes

  • --service imessage|sms|auto controls delivery.
  • Confirm recipient + message before sending.
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. 6d ago First seen · 26 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A f44658108e5d

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imsg is a skill published in the GitHub repository metaspartan/cybara (28 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 252 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to imsg, differing in 23 lines, and is treated as a copy.