imessage

imessage is a skill for Claude Code from njerschow/textme. It costs 0 tokens per session (980 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for sending and receiving iMessages from Claude Code so a user can provide input or receive updates on their phone.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request clarification, discuss next steps, send status updates, or receive real-time user input.
Why use it?
It provides a way to ask for decisions or report progress when the user is away from the coding session.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the imessage plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install imessage, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 980 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00980
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00490
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00098

Measured 6d ago against content hash fb40b23552ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 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.

skills/imessage/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iMessage Skill

Description

Send and receive iMessages via Claude Code. Get real-time input from the user via their phone, similar to how call-me enables voice conversations.

When to Use This Skill

Use ask_user when:

  • You've completed significant work and want to report status and ask what's next
  • You need real-time input for decisions
  • You're blocked and need clarification to proceed
  • You want to discuss next steps with the user

Use notify_user when:

  • You want to send a status update without needing a response
  • The information is non-urgent
  • You don't want to block waiting for a reply

Do NOT use for:

  • Simple yes/no questions that can be asked in the terminal
  • Information the user has already provided
  • Sending to non-whitelisted numbers

Primary Tools

ask_user

Send an iMessage and wait for the user to respond. This is the main tool - similar to initiate_call in call-me.

Parameters:

  • message (string, required): What to ask the user. Be conversational.
  • timeout_seconds (number, optional): How long to wait (default: 300 = 5 minutes)

Behavior:

  1. Sends iMessage to the user
  2. Waits for response (polls every 5 seconds)
  3. Returns the user's response when received
  4. If timeout: returns notice, response will be picked up later via check_messages

Example:

ask_user({ message: "Finished the auth module. Should I work on API endpoints or tests next?" })
→ User responds via phone: "API endpoints"
→ Returns: "User responded: API endpoints"
→ Claude continues working on API endpoints

notify_user

Send an iMessage without waiting for a response. Fire-and-forget.

Parameters:

  • message (string, required): Message to send

Example:

notify_user({ message: "Starting the database migration. This will take about 10 minutes." })
→ Returns immediately: "Notification sent"
→ Claude continues working

Secondary Tools

check_messages

Check for pending iMessages. Use this to pick up responses that arrived after a timeout.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 126 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fb40b23552ea

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imessage is a skill published in the GitHub repository njerschow/textme (93 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 980 tokens. 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.