iMessage Reader

Read-only access to macOS iMessage database with 26 tools for searching, analyzing, and exporting conversations.

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// key findings

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26 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

26 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: IMESSAGE_API_TOKEN

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretIMESSAGE_API_TOKEN— docker run -p 3000:3000 -e =your-secret-token -v /path/to/chat.db:/data/chat.db:ro imessage-mcp

configIMESSAGE_DB— ~/Library/Messages/chat.db Path to iMessage database

configIMESSAGE_SAFE_MODE— "env": { "": "1" }

configIMESSAGE_SYNC— "env": { "": "watch" }

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 3 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: c911b17c5f2054ed098eb85ac0ed11e1bcbbc088

code hash: 4c7fe9b4c2d94fbb690dee7a38bd9f3e610e2d09b51252e75a3644b94f6dc5d0

verified: 4/11/2026, 1:56:25 PM

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