waba-template-author

waba-template-author is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sentdm/sent-plugin. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,721 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing and checking guide for WhatsApp message templates sent through the Sent v3 API. It covers utility messages, marketing, authentication codes, variables, buttons, and provider review rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft, classify, validate, or repair templates for notifications, promotions, one-time passwords, and other WhatsApp messages.
Why use it?
It helps turn a messaging idea into the correct request format and catches policy or lifecycle problems before submission.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sent plugin — 19 skills, 1 MCP server 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/sentdm/sent-plugin/waba-template-author
Any agent
npx skills add sentdm/sent-plugin --skill waba-template-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sentdm/sent-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 1 MCP server.

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 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,721 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 $0.00056 $0.01721
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00172

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7bc09641478b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

waba-template-author 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/lint_waba_template.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

claude-plugins/sent/skills/waba-template-author/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WhatsApp Template Author

Use this skill to turn a messaging intent into a valid body for POST /v3/templates, review it for WhatsApp policy risk, and explain the resulting lifecycle. Sent's template request is not Meta's Cloud API components[] shape.

Source precedence

When official sources disagree:

  1. Use the live Sent v3 OpenAPI for paths, request fields, and response shapes.
  2. Use the most specific current Sent guide for lifecycle and policy semantics.
  3. Preserve unknown provider values instead of forcing them into a closed enum.

The canonical references are the Sent template-definition guide, the v3 OpenAPI, and the webhook events reference. Do not use snapshot-era v2 examples.

Authoring workflow

1. Establish intent and category

Collect the business event, recipient expectation, requested action, language, channel overrides, and realistic sample values. Choose:

  • UTILITY for a specific non-promotional transaction, account, or service event.
  • MARKETING for promotions, offers, re-engagement, product discovery, or mixed promotional content.
  • AUTHENTICATION for one-time verification codes and supported authentication flows.

If content mixes utility and promotion, classify it as marketing or split it. See references/waba-template-categories.md.

2. Build the Sent create request

POST /v3/templates accepts these top-level fields:

Field Requirement
definition Required. Contains header, body, footer, buttons, optional definitionVersion, and optional authenticationConfig.
category Optional: UTILITY, MARKETING, or AUTHENTICATION; omit for detection only when ambiguity is acceptable.
language Optional locale such as en_US.
creation_source Optional source string; from-api is the documented default.
submit_for_review Optional Boolean; default false. Draft and validate before review.
sandbox Optional Boolean for validation without side effects.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 169 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 7bc09641478b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

waba-template-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository sentdm/sent-plugin (52 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,721 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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