anthropics / anthropics/claude-plugins-official

Cowork's Read_and_Send_iMessages connector doesn't match this repo's documented tools / lacks group chat support

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Description

In Cowork (Claude desktop app), the connected iMessage integration is named `Read_and_Send_iMessages` and exposes: `read_imessages(phone_number, limit)`, `search_contacts(query)`, `get_unread_imessages(limit)`, `send_imessage`.

This repo's README (`external_plugins/imessage/README.md`) documents a different tool surface — `reply` and `chat_messages` — with explicit group chat support via `chat_guid` ("Omit chat_guid to see every allowlisted chat at once, or pass one to drill in").

I tried passing a group chat identifier (`chat860122946619699955`, and `any;+;chat860122946619699955`) into `read_imessages`'s `phone_number` parameter to fetch a family group chat's history — both returned an empty array, with no way to retrieve group messages at all through the connected tools.

Could someone clarify: is Cowork running a different/older iMessage integration than this plugin, or should this plugin's group-chat support (`chat_guid`) be reaching Cowork sessions and isn't? Either way, it'd help to have this documented, since right now group chats silently return nothing rather than an explicit "unsupported" error.

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Research direction

Start by reading external_plugins/imessage/README.md and compare its documented reply and chat_messages tools with the Read_and_Send_iMessages tools exposed in Cowork. Determine whether chat_guid group-chat support is available in Cowork; document the actual support and make the silent unsupported case explicit if appropriate.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation, tooling
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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