What the system can doMessages
One family of actions
Messages (iMessage and SMS)
Send, read, search and answer texts from your own number, as iMessage (blue bubbles on iPhones) or SMS.
These actions work on the phone number your customers already text. A Mac signed in to that number sends and receives the messages; the AI assistant reads and replies within the permissions you set.
Live, read from this site just now.
The groups in this family, counted just now: — actions
This family among all — actions in the Directory, one square each
Each action is one row in the Directory, sorted into this family by the start of its name.
What it can do
What the actions in this family do, group by group.
Each card is a group of actions that do similar work. The number on each card is how many actions are in that group right now.
Switch to “For your developer” to see the real name of every action.
The real name of every action, read from the Directory just now. Names that contain a supplier’s name are left out of the lists, and still counted.
Send
—Send a text, a photo, a file, a contact card or a poll from your own number; start a conversation or a group; reply to one message in a thread.
Edit, react and mark read
—Edit or unsend a message you sent, add or remove a reaction, show the typing indicator, and mark a conversation read or unread.
Read and search
—List conversations, read a thread, search the whole history for a word, see unread and scheduled messages, and check whether a message was delivered and read.
Watch for new messages
—Notice each new message the moment it arrives, including reactions and edits, and pass it to the AI assistant or to another program.
Answer automatically
—Hand an incoming message to the AI assistant, take the reply it writes, and send it back into the same conversation, once per message.
Text the owner
—Text you when something needs a decision, a report is ready, or something failed.
Contacts, numbers and groups
—Check whether a number uses iMessage or SMS, keep contact records and tags, see which numbers you can send from, and manage group chats.
Status
—Check that the Mac that sends and receives your messages is running, and list what it can do.
Uses
What a business uses these actions for.
Examples of the work these actions do. They describe uses, not results.
Answer customer texts on the number they already have, at any hour, within the permissions you set.
Text back a caller you missed, from the same number they called.
Find what a customer asked for last time by searching the message history for a word.
See which customer conversations are still unread.
How it is run
How any of these actions is run.
The same way as every other action in the Directory: one request, the same permissions, one record.
You don’t have to pick an action yourself. You text what you want; the AI assistant picks the action and runs it within the permissions you set. The result comes back to you, and the request, the result and who asked are written to the Ledger, the record of everything the system has done.
Every action is one row in the Directory, and each row can be run — ways: a text, a link, a spreadsheet cell, an iPhone Shortcut, a command, or an AI model’s request. Every way goes through dispatch: one web address that looks the action up, checks the permissions, runs it on the right computer, sends back the result and writes a Ledger entry. The same action answers every way, under the same limits.
Dispatch takes an HTTP POST (a standard web request) of {"key": "<action name>", "args": {…}}. The same key works over the API (the web address your software calls), MCP (Model Context Protocol, the standard way AI apps connect to outside tools), the command line (CLI), a webhook (an address another program posts to), a spreadsheet cell or a Shortcut. A token (a key or a link) can be limited to exactly the actions you allow; every call, and every refusal, is a Ledger entry.
// One action from this family, as dispatch receives it
{ "key": "…", "args": { … } }Ask for this.
The text below opens ready to send. Add a line about your business, and I’ll reply with what this family of actions would do for it.
Every family
Everything else the system can do.
Every family of actions, with how many actions it has right now.