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MCP for personal messaging

Give AI access to your chats. On your terms.

Automata connects WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and iMessage straight from your own accounts — not a locked-down business API — so Claude, ChatGPT, and any MCP client can read and send messages for you, one chat at a time, only with permission you grant.

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Free & open source · Self-host in minutes · No card required

Chat access

2 of 4 shared
  • WhatsApp
    Design teamShared with AI
  • Signal
    Investor updatesShared with AI
  • Telegram
    Mom & Dad Private
  • iMessage
    Alex ♥ Private
Connected via MCP to
ClaudeChatGPT

How it works

Built for the way people actually message.

Most integrations bolt onto a business messaging tier. Automata speaks MCP directly to the personal apps already on your phone — and puts you in control of exactly what an AI can see.

Your accounts, not a business API

Automata links the WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and iMessage accounts you already use every day — the same contacts, the same history. No business tier, no separate number, no app switching.

Granular, chat-by-chat permissions

Grant access one conversation at a time. Share your work threads with Claude, keep your family group and DMs out of reach entirely. Every grant is logged and revocable instantly.

Free, open source, self-hosted

Run the whole server on your own machine or infrastructure — the code is open source and free forever. Prefer not to manage it? Request access to our hosted version instead.

Permission scopes

Applied instantly
  • Design team12 members
    No accessRead onlyRead & send
  • Investor updates4 members
    No accessRead onlyRead & send
  • Mom & DadDirect message
    No accessRead onlyRead & send
  • Alex ♥Direct message
    No accessRead onlyRead & send

Permissions

Keep private chats out of the hands of the AI.

Connecting an account never means handing over every conversation. Automata puts a permission layer between your messages and any model — nothing is visible until you explicitly say so.

  • Grant access chat by chat, not account-wide
  • Choose read-only or read & send per conversation
  • Every AI request is logged with what it saw
  • Revoke any permission instantly, from anywhere

Self-host

Free, open source, and yours to run.

Automata is fully open source. Run it yourself for total privacy, or let us host it if you would rather not think about servers.

automata — zsh
$git clone https://github.com/ju-li/automata-mcp
$cd automata && docker compose up
→✓ Automata MCP server running at localhost:8787
→✓ Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client
$
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Self-hosted

Free, forever

Clone the repo and run Automata on your own machine, VPS, or homelab. Full source, full control, your data never leaves your infrastructure.

  • MIT licensed source code
  • Docker & bare-metal setup guides
  • Unlimited accounts and chats
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Hosted

Invite only, for now

Skip the ops. We run Automata for you on managed infrastructure with the same permission model, backups, and monitoring included.

  • Zero setup, managed updates
  • Same granular permissions
  • Priority support
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Connect your chats to AI, without giving up control.

Self-host Automata today for free, or request access to our hosted version and let us run it for you.

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