Hi HN! I built `macos-messages`, a small Python library and CLI that makes it easy to read and search your macOS Messages.app history (iMessage, SMS, and RCS).
I've been experimenting lately with using coding agents to do more "life stuff", and a lot of what that's looked like has been making plain-text files on my filesystem and using CLIs to interact with them and the world. I wanted Claude to be able to do things like "find the name that restaurant that was in the neighborhood group chat", but the SQLite database on-disk is pretty inscrutable, so I built Claude a handy little tool that gives it read-only access to my Messages app!
tompritchard•10h ago
I've been experimenting lately with using coding agents to do more "life stuff", and a lot of what that's looked like has been making plain-text files on my filesystem and using CLIs to interact with them and the world. I wanted Claude to be able to do things like "find the name that restaurant that was in the neighborhood group chat", but the SQLite database on-disk is pretty inscrutable, so I built Claude a handy little tool that gives it read-only access to my Messages app!