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You can send and receive iMessage texts from the terminal by using a command-line interface that connects directly to the Messages.app. This allows you to list chats, fetch history, watch ongoing conversations in real-time, and send messages without switching applications.

Yes, you can monitor ongoing SMS conversations in real-time via command line. The interface provides a watching feature that streams incoming messages directly to your terminal, enabling you to track multiple chats simultaneously during a project.

To manage iMessage chats from the command line, you need to grant full disk access and automation permissions to the interface on your macOS system. These permissions are required to interact with the Messages.app database and send messages.

You retrieve chat history and attachments for a specific SMS conversation by listing recent chats to find the identifier, then fetching the history for that specific chat. This extracts past messages and their associated files directly to your terminal.

No, this command line messaging tool does not work on operating systems other than macOS. It interfaces directly with the Messages.app and depends on macOS-specific binaries to manage iMessage and SMS communications.

You automate sending SMS messages through a shell script by calling the command-line messaging binary within your script. This integrates message sending directly into your terminal workflows, allowing you to compose and dispatch texts programmatically.