
Ops Comms
- 58 installs
- 3.2k repo stars
- Updated August 2, 2026
- davepoon/buildwithclaude
Send and read messages across WhatsApp, email, Slack, Telegram, Discord, and Notion from one ops command.
About
Sends and reads messages across all configured channels (WhatsApp, Gmail, Slack, Telegram, Discord, Notion), routing on arguments or natural language. A developer uses it to handle cross-channel communication from the ops suite.
- Routes send/read across WhatsApp, email, Slack, Telegram, Discord, and Notion
- Loads contact profiles, preferences, and donts before drafting any message
Ops Comms by the numbers
- 58 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- Ranked #1,015 of 2,719 Automation & Workflows skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Data as of Aug 3, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
npx skills add https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill ops-commsAdd your badge
Show developers this skill is listed on Skillselion. Paste this into your README.
| Installs | 58 |
|---|---|
| repo stars | ★ 3.2k |
| Last updated | August 2, 2026 |
| Repository | davepoon/buildwithclaude ↗ |
What it does
Send and read messages across WhatsApp, email, Slack, Telegram, Discord, and Notion from one ops command.
Files
OPS ► COMMS
Runtime Context
Before executing, load available context:
1. Daemon health: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/daemon-health.json
- Check
wacli-syncstatus before any WhatsApp operation - Also check
~/.wacli/.health— if notstatus=connected, surface auth issue before proceeding
2. Ops memories: Before drafting any message, check ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/memories/:
contact_*.md— load profile for the recipientpreferences.md— match user's communication style, language, and tonedonts.md— restrictions that must not appear in any draft
3. Preferences: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/preferences.json for default_channels to determine which channel to prefer when multiple are available for a contact.
CLI/API Reference
wacli (WhatsApp)
Health file — check ~/.wacli/.health BEFORE any wacli command:
status=connected→ proceedstatus=needs_authorstatus=needs_reauth→ prompt user for QR scan, do NOT run wacli commands
| Command | Usage | Output |
|---|---|---|
wacli doctor --json | Check auth/connected/lock/FTS | {data: {authenticated, connected, lock_held, fts_enabled}} |
wacli chats list --json | All chats | {data: [{JID, Name, Kind, LastMessageTS}]} |
wacli messages list --chat "<JID>" --limit N --json | Messages for chat | {data: {messages: [{FromMe, Text, Timestamp, SenderName, ChatName}]}} |
wacli messages search --query "<text>" --json | FTS search | Same as above |
wacli contacts --search "<name>" --json | Contact lookup | Contact objects |
wacli send --to "<JID>" --message "<msg>" | Send text | Success/error |
gog CLI (Gmail/Calendar)
| Command | Usage | Output |
|---|---|---|
gog gmail search "in:inbox" --max 50 -j --results-only --no-input | Search inbox | JSON array of threads |
gog gmail thread get <threadId> -j | Get full thread with all messages | Full message JSON |
gog gmail send --to "user@example.com" --subject "subj" --body "text" | Send new email | Send result |
gog gmail send --reply-to-message-id <msgId> --reply-all --body "text" | Reply all | Send result |
gog gmail send --to "a@b.com" --subject "subj" --body "text" --attach /path/file | With attachment | Send result |
gog gmail archive <messageId> ... --no-input --force | Archive messages | Archive result |
---
Parse $ARGUMENTS and route immediately:
Routing table
| Pattern | Action |
|---|---|
whatsapp | Show WhatsApp recent chats — offer to read or send |
email | Show recent email threads via Gmail MCP |
slack | Show recent Slack activity |
telegram | Show Telegram recent chats |
discord | Show recent Discord channel activity (via bin/ops-discord) |
notion | Search Notion workspace — pages, comments, tasks |
send * to * | Parse message and contact, determine best channel, send |
read * | Read the specified channel or contact's messages |
| (empty) | Show channel picker menu |
Natural-language parsing: phrases like send "deploy done" to #general on discord or to #ops-alerts on Discord should resolve to the discord branch below. Extract the channel token (the word after #, case-insensitive) and pass it as the first arg to bin/ops-discord send.
---
Send flow: send [message] to [contact]
1. Parse contact name and message from $ARGUMENTS. 2. Determine channel by contact lookup:
- Check WhatsApp:
wacli contacts --search "[contact]" --json 2>/dev/null - Check Slack:
mcp__claude_ai_Slack__slack_search_userswithquery: "[contact]" - Check email: known from context or ask
3. If multiple channels found, use AskUserQuestion: [WhatsApp] / [Slack] / [Email] 4. Always preview before sending. Use AskUserQuestion to confirm:
Ready to send via [channel]:
To: [contact name] ([identifier])
Message: "[full message text]"
[Send now] [Edit message] [Cancel]If user picks "Edit message", use AskUserQuestion with free-text to get the revised message, then re-preview.
5. Send via the chosen channel. Confirm with: Sent to [contact] via [channel] ✓
WhatsApp send
CRITICAL — READ BEFORE SENDING: Before drafting ANY WhatsApp reply, you MUST: 1. Read the full conversation: wacli messages list --chat "<JID>" --limit 20 --json 2. Understand which messages are from the user (FromMe: true) vs the contact 3. Summarize what the conversation is about and what the contact is asking 4. Only THEN draft a reply that addresses what the contact actually said
Never send a reply based on a single message. A message like "can you pull it from Klaviyo?" means nothing without knowing what "it" refers to from prior messages.
Pre-flight: Before any wacli command, check ~/.wacli/.health. If status=needs_auth or status=needs_reauth, prompt the user: "WhatsApp needs re-authentication. Run wacli auth in a separate terminal and scan the QR code, then type 'done'." Use AskUserQuestion: [Done — re-paired], [Skip WhatsApp]. On Done, restart daemon: launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.claude-ops.wacli-keepalive, wait 5s.
wacli send --to "[contact]" --message "[message]"Slack send
Use mcp__claude_ai_Slack__slack_send_message with resolved channel/user ID.
Email send (draft)
Use mcp__claude_ai_Gmail__create_draft — always create draft first. Then use AskUserQuestion:
Draft created for [recipient]:
Subject: [subject]
Body: [preview]
[Send now] [Keep as draft] [Edit]---
Read flow: read [channel]
WhatsApp:
wacli chats --limit 10 --json 2>/dev/nullShow last 10 chats with sender, preview, timestamp.
Email: Use mcp__claude_ai_Gmail__search_threads with query: "in:inbox" (NOT is:unread — scan full inbox including read messages), show thread list.
Slack: Use mcp__claude_ai_Slack__slack_search_public_and_private with query: "in:channel" (NOT is:unread — scan full recent activity).
Telegram: Use mcp__claude_ops_telegram__get_updates (limit: 20) and mcp__claude_ops_telegram__list_chats. Fall back to: telegram-cli --exec "dialog_list" 2>/dev/null || echo "Telegram MCP not configured"
Discord: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-discord read "<CHANNEL_ID>" --limit 20 --json — requires DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN (or credential-store discord/bot-token). Fall back to bin/ops-discord channels --json if the user doesn't know the channel ID and DISCORD_GUILD_ID is set.
Notion: Use mcp__claude_ai_Notion__notion-search with the user's query (or query: "" sorted by last_edited_time for general browsing). For each result:
- Fetch full page content with
mcp__claude_ai_Notion__notion-fetchusing the page URL/ID from search results - Get comments with
mcp__claude_ai_Notion__notion-get-comments - Show page title, database name, last editor, and recent comments
Notion API fallback: If MCP tools fail and NOTION_API_KEY is set, use curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOTION_API_KEY" -H "Notion-Version: 2022-06-28" -X POST https://api.notion.com/v1/search -d '{"query":"<QUERY>","page_size":10}'
Notion comment/reply
Use mcp__claude_ai_Notion__notion-create-comment with the page ID to reply to a comment thread. For creating new pages in a database, use mcp__claude_ai_Notion__notion-create-pages.
Always preview before commenting:
Ready to comment on Notion page:
Page: [page title]
Comment: "[comment text]"
[Post comment] [Edit] [Cancel]Telegram send
Use mcp__claude_ops_telegram__send_message with chat_id (from list_chats) and text.
Discord send
Shell out to bin/ops-discord send. Three invocation shapes:
# By channel alias (resolves DISCORD_WEBHOOK_<UPPER> or DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL)
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-discord send "<channel-alias>" "<message>" --json
# By channel snowflake (17-20 digit ID, routed through bot token)
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-discord send "<CHANNEL_ID>" "<message>" --json
# By full webhook URL (useful when the URL is stored per-project)
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-discord send "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/<ID>/<TOKEN>" "<message>" --jsonIf the script exits 1 with {"error":"no discord credential configured — run /ops:setup discord"}, prompt the user via AskUserQuestion (≤4 options per Rule 1): [Run /ops:setup discord] / [Paste webhook URL now] / [Skip]. Do NOT silently skip — that violates Rule 3.
Note: DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL is shared with the ops-fires notification sink (scripts/ops-notify.sh). When pre-existing, prefer it as the default for /ops:comms discord send rather than asking the user to set a separate value.
---
Empty arguments — channel picker
Display the header, then use batched AskUserQuestion calls (max 4 options each):
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
OPS ► COMMS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Before presenting options, read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/preferences.json and check which channels are configured. Only show configured channels. If <=4 total options (configured channels + "Send a message"), present in a single call. If >4, batch:
AskUserQuestion call 1 — Read channels:
[Read WhatsApp]
[Read Email]
[Read Slack]
[More...]AskUserQuestion call 2 (only if "More..."):
[Read Telegram]
[Send a message]If all channels are configured, that's 5 options — always batch. If only 3 channels are configured, "Read X" + "Read Y" + "Read Z" + "Send a message" = 4, fits in one call.
Execute the selected action.