Summary
Years of WhatsApp, searchable, without any of it leaving your machine.
The archive is the point: a local copy of your history turns "when did we agree that" into a search rather than an hour of scrolling, and the send tool means you can answer in the same breath.
What it is
A local WhatsApp bridge. You link it once by scanning a QR code, and it keeps your chats in a SQLite database at ~/.whatsapp-mcp/whatsapp.db, with the auth keys in ~/.whatsapp-mcp/session/ and nothing sent anywhere else.
What you get
- Full-text search across your complete chat history, not just what is loaded on screen
- Every chat listed by recency, and group chats listed on their own
- Messages read back from a chat you name
- A contact found by name when you are not sure which chat it is
- Messages sent from wherever you are already working
- A status read that reports the connection plus how many messages are stored, across how many chats, and how far back the history goes
Requirements
Node.js v20+ and Git. Windows has a double-click installer; macOS and Linux use make install. Linking is a QR scan on a local page after Claude Desktop restarts, and the first sync takes a few minutes. Older conversations can be brought in through WhatsApp's own Export Chat.