Neura Market Logo

Imsg

iMessage/SMS CLI for listing chats, history, watch, and sending.

Peter Steinberger

@steipete

What This Skill Does

Command-line interface for reading and sending iMessage/SMS on macOS. Lists chats, fetches message history with attachments, watches for new messages, and sends texts or files through Messages.app.

Replaces manually clicking through Messages.app by exposing chat listing, history, watch, and send actions as shell-accessible commands.

When to Use It

  • List recent iMessage chats with JSON output for scripting
  • Fetch message history from a specific chat including attachments
  • Watch a chat for new incoming messages in real-time
  • Send an iMessage or SMS with text and an attached file from the terminal

Install

$ openclaw skills install @steipete/imsg

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.

Top skills in this category

Humanizer

@biostartechnology

Remove signs of AI-generated writing from text. Use when editing or reviewing text to make it sound more natural and human-written. Based on Wikipedia's comprehensive "Signs of AI writing" guide. Detects and fixes patterns including: inflated symbolism, promotional language, superficial -ing analyses, vague attributions, em dash overuse, rule of three, AI vocabulary words, negative parallelisms, and excessive conjunctive phrases.

710129k

Slack

@steipete

Use when you need to control Slack from Clawdbot via the slack tool, including reacting to messages or pinning/unpinning items in Slack channels or DMs.

16053k

PollyReach

@pollyreach

PollyReach gives every AI agent a phone number and the ability to get things done over the phone — finding contacts, making calls, and completing tasks. Just...

55101k

imap-smtp-email

@gzlicanyi

Read and send email via IMAP/SMTP. Check for new/unread messages, fetch content, search mailboxes, mark as read/unread, and send emails with attachments. Supports multiple accounts. Works with any IMAP/SMTP server including Gmail, Outlook, 163.com, vip.163.com, 126.com, vip.126.com, 188.com, and vip

10850k

Answer Overflow

@rhyssullivan

Search indexed Discord community discussions via Answer Overflow. Find solutions to coding problems, library issues, and community Q&A that only exist in Discord conversations.

18122k