whatsapp

A routing guide for working with WhatsApp messages and chats through local archives or linked devices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching and reading WhatsApp history, checking unread counts, syncing data, sending messages, and changing chats or groups when explicitly requested.
Why use it?
It clarifies which tool to use for history, live data, sending, and chat changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/steipete/agent-scripts/whatsapp
Any agent
npx skills add steipete/agent-scripts --skill whatsapp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 978 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 $0.00022 $0.00978
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00489
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00098

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6b127960523f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

whatsapp 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/whatsapp/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WhatsApp

Use this as the first stop for WhatsApp work. Keep the source boundary sharp:

  • wacrawl: primary WhatsApp Desktop archive. Read-only, best local history, no network, no sending.
  • wacli: linked-device accounts. Use for alt accounts, live sync, auth, sending, chat/group mutation, and WhatsApp Web protocol questions.

If the user names wacrawl or wacli repo work specifically, read that tool's own skill too.

Routing

  • Primary WhatsApp reads/search/history: use wacrawl.
  • Read/unread counts from WhatsApp Desktop: use wacrawl; it has chat-level unread counts, not per-message read state.
  • Freshness-sensitive primary reads: check wacrawl status; run wacrawl sync when asked or when current data matters.
  • Alt accounts such as me, molty, or named stores: use wacli --account NAME.
  • Sending, reactions, presence, archive/pin/mute/mark-read, group/channel mutations: use wacli only after explicit user intent.
  • Comparing coverage between sources: treat wacrawl as Desktop archive truth for primary history, and wacli as linked-device/live coverage with protocol limits.

Safety

  • Never send or mutate WhatsApp state unless explicitly requested.
  • Prefer read-only wacli commands for inspection: pass --read-only or set WACLI_READONLY=1.
  • Do not write into WhatsApp Desktop's app container.
  • Do not edit wacli session.db directly.
  • Keep named wacli accounts isolated; do not merge stores.
  • Report source freshness, account name, and known gaps when answering from local stores.

Common Commands

Primary Archive

Freshness and status:

wacrawl status
wacrawl doctor
wacrawl sync

Unread triage:

wacrawl chats --limit 20
wacrawl unread --limit 20
wacrawl --json unread --limit 100

Search and slice messages:

wacrawl messages --after 2026-01-01 --limit 50
wacrawl messages --chat JID --asc --limit 100
wacrawl messages --has-media --limit 50
wacrawl --json search "query"
wacrawl search "query" --after 2026-01-01 --from-them

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 2d ago First seen · 115 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 6b127960523f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

whatsapp is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-scripts (6,590 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 978 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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