wacli

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Lets your agent send WhatsApp messages and search your WhatsApp chat history.

Then ask your AI: use the wacli skill

Details

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Account requirements not reviewed. Check the skill instructions before use; Ahel provides instructions and does not run this skill.

No other account needed.

Add it as a step in a pipeline you build on Ahel, or connect Ahel to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex and ask your AI to use it.

About this skill

Send WhatsApp messages to other people or search/sync WhatsApp history via the wacli CLI.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by the-open-agent/openagent in skills/wacli/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.

Use wacli when the user asks you to message someone on WhatsApp or to sync/search WhatsApp history.

Safety

Auth + sync

Find chats + messages

History backfill

Send

Text: wacli send text --to "+14155551212" --message "Hello! Are you free at 3pm?"
Group: wacli send text --to "1234567890-123456789@g.us" --message "Running 5 min late."
File: wacli send file --to "+14155551212" --file /path/agenda.pdf --caption "Agenda"

Notes

Store dir: ~/.wacli (override with --store).
Use --json for machine-readable output when parsing.
Backfill requires your phone online; results are best-effort.
JIDs: direct chats look like <number>@s.whatsapp.net; groups look like <id>@g.us (use wacli chats list to find).

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