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Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by gcgbarbosa » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC

lordgrenville wrote: post #8

Am I correct in guessing that this is a ToS violation and could lead to getting blocked?

This is ToS violation for sure. OP will soon receive a letter from Zuck's lawyers

Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by thomasjeff1 » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

fabian_shipamax wrote: post #6

fabian_shipamax wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it doesn’t.

If you use it for personal and not excessively you won’t get banned is my experience. You if you start messaging new contacts on a large scale you probably will.

That is normal when you lose your contacts and do an external backup. WhatsApp thinks I am texting large number of strangers whereas I already know those contacts. Happened to me. Lost access to WhatsApp.

Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by catidegla » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by cute_boi » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

how is this different than https://github.com/WhiskeySockets/Baileys which seems more reliable?

Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by blueplanet200 » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

fabian_shipamax wrote: post #9

kreidema wrote: post #2

Do I understand correctly that your service works as a registered device into my whatsapp account with full "admin" like access? This seems a bit harsh for the sensitive data that peoples wahatsapp contain? Or am I missing a usecase here where that is unproblematic? Business accounts maybe?

Not quite sure what you mean with admin access. There no such concept. But you can basically do anything a user can do - but via MCP.

Exactly. OP meant that it has permission to do anything, hence "admin".

Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by monononon34 » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

monononon34 wrote: post #20

it looks like a dangerous. i can't trust the LLM

does it have any security system?

Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by dpoloncsak » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

fabian_shipamax wrote: post #17

dpoloncsak wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This can be used locally, no?

It’s a cloud product

Sorry, I may has misphrased what I meant. Can I use this with a local model? Or is it locked to Claude

Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by addag » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

lbrito wrote: post #12

Are people really this nonchalant about giving away their private whatsapp conversations to the likes of Anthropic and Openai?

Oh gosh, if only it was just the whatsapp chats...

Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by lbrito » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

testycool wrote: post #16

dpoloncsak wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This can be used locally, no?

And you typically use them for business, not on private accounts.

Most of the use cases in the page are personal, like Family Group, Sports Group and so on.

"Pick members and send them a personal direct message".

Re: Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

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Post by yablak » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

Looked into this a while back. WhatsApp MCP servers attach as a second device to WhatsApp and pull down your message history.

Most of the ones I've seen on github do not store the messages encrypted locally.

When evaluating these tools, check to see what they store unencrypted on disk. A quick search shows that only one seems to check the boxes:

https://github.com/adelaidasofia/whatsapp-mcp

However I haven't tested it. And it does phone home, you may want to disable that before running it.