wacli

wacli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools. It costs 26 tokens per session (757 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of wacli, MIT.

A set of rules for using wacli to send messages to other people on WhatsApp or search and synchronise WhatsApp history. It is not for ordinary chats with the current user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to authenticate and synchronise WhatsApp, find chats or messages, inspect message details, and send a confirmed message to a specified recipient.
Why use it?
It prevents messages being sent to the wrong person and separates third-party messaging from normal conversation handling. It also requires checking the recipient and message before sending.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to authenticate and synchronise WhatsApp, find chats or messages, inspect message details, and send a confirmed message to a specified recipient.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools/wacli
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 openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools --skill wacli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 757 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 100% 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 $0.00026 $0.00757
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00303
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00076

Measured 10d ago against content hash 55a92ebfc446, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wacli 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 10d 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

100% identical to wacli — 0 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.

tools/wacli/skills/wacli/SKILL.md · 80 lines

What it actually says

wacli

Use wacli only when the user explicitly asks you to message someone else on WhatsApp or when they ask to sync/search WhatsApp history. Do NOT use wacli for normal user chats; OpenClaw routes WhatsApp conversations automatically. If the user is chatting with you on WhatsApp, you should not reach for this tool unless they ask you to contact a third party.

Safety

  • Require explicit recipient + message text.
  • Confirm recipient + message before sending.
  • If anything is ambiguous, ask a clarifying question.

Auth + sync

  • wacli auth (QR login + initial sync)
  • wacli sync --follow (continuous sync)
  • wacli doctor

Find chats + messages

  • wacli chats list --limit 20 --query "name or number"
  • wacli messages search "query" --limit 20 --chat <jid>
  • wacli messages search "invoice" --after 2025-01-01 --before 2025-12-31

Inspect / verify messages

  • wacli messages show --chat <jid> --id <message_id> --json --full
  • messages show requires both --chat and --id; do not pass the message ID as a positional argument.
  • After sending, verify the stored message when exact formatting matters, especially multiline text.

History backfill

  • wacli history backfill --chat <jid> --requests 2 --count 50

Send

  • Text: wacli send text --to "+14155551212" --message "Hello! Are you free at 3pm?"
  • Group: wacli send text --to "[email protected]" --message "Running 5 min late."
  • File: wacli send file --to "+14155551212" --file /path/agenda.pdf --caption "Agenda"
  • Multiline: --message is literal by default; pass --message-escapes to interpret \n, \r, \t.

Notes

  • Store dir: ~/.wacli (override with --store).
  • Use --json for machine-readable output when parsing.
  • Backfill requires your phone online; results are best-effort.
  • WhatsApp CLI is not needed for routine user chats; it's for messaging other people.
  • JIDs: direct chats look like <number>@s.whatsapp.net; groups look like <id>@g.us (use wacli chats list to find).
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. 10d ago First seen · 80 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 55a92ebfc446

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wacli is a skill published in the GitHub repository openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools (54 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 757 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to wacli, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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