phone-sms

Site: https://phone-sms.vercel.app · Repo: https://github.com/h-3303/phone-sms

An MCP server that lets Claude (or any MCP client) read and send SMS through your own Android phone, from your own number. It talks to the phone over KDE Connect on your local network: no cloud relay, no SMS gateway account, no app to install beyond KDE Connect itself.

agent ──MCP──▶ phone-sms ──D-Bus──▶ kdeconnectd ──LAN──▶ KDE Connect (Android) ──▶ SMS

Tools:

Tool	Does
list_threads	conversations, newest first, with the latest message; filter by contact or unread
read_thread	the last n messages of one conversation
find_contact	look up a contact by name or number fragment (from the phone's synced contacts)
send_sms	send a text, or a group text to several numbers

send_sms carries MCP's destructiveHint, and the server tells the model never to send until you have approved the exact recipient and text in the conversation. Message contents never leave your machine except as the model's context.

Requirements

• Linux with a D-Bus session bus and KDE Connect (kdeconnectd, a current release; package kdeconnect). It does not need the Plasma desktop; it runs fine under GNOME, Hyprland, Sway…
• An Android phone with the KDE Connect app (F-Droid / Play), paired with the computer. On the phone, enable the SMS plugin (and Contacts if you want names) and grant the SMS and contacts permissions it asks for.
• uv and Python 3.12+.

Check the pairing: kdeconnect-cli -l should list your phone as paired and reachable.

Install

Claude Code, as a plugin (one step):

/plugin marketplace add h-3303/phone-sms
/plugin install phone-sms@phone-sms

Claude Code, as a plain MCP server:

claude mcp add --scope user phone-sms -- uvx phone-sms

Any other MCP client (Claude Desktop config shape, Cursor, Zed, …):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "phone-sms": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["phone-sms"]
    }
  }
}

The skill (tells the agent when and how to use the tools, with the approval rule, an OTP recipe and a digest recipe). The Claude Code plugin above includes it; for Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI and the rest:

npx skills add h-3303/phone-sms

The skill file is MIT (see plugin/skills/phone-sms/); it is also listed on skill marketplaces. The server stays GPL and is installed from PyPI by the commands above.

Why this and not a relay

	phone-sms	TextBee, SimLink, SMS8	ADB / Termux servers	Twilio-style MCP	mac Messages MCP
Your own number	yes	yes, your SIM	yes	no, a rented number	yes, via iPhone
Cloud relay	none	their server, or self-host it	none	yes	none
Needs	Linux + KDE Connect	Android app + account or API key	USB debugging, or Termux on the phone	account, A2P 10DLC registration for US traffic, per-message fees	macOS, Full Disk Access
Reads your inbox	yes	yes	yes	only the rented number's traffic	yes

Pick a relay if you need a phone number for a product. Pick phone-sms if you want your agent to read and answer your texts and you run Linux.

From a checkout: uv run --directory /path/to/phone-sms -q phone-sms.

The server uses the first paired, reachable device. With several phones, pin one with PHONE_SMS_DEVICE=<id> (the id kdeconnect-cli -l prints).

CLI

The same code paths, for checking things by hand:

phone-sms threads [-n 20] [--unread]
phone-sms read <thread_id> [-n 20]
phone-sms contact <name>
phone-sms send <number>... -m "text"
phone-sms                              # MCP server on stdio

How sending works

1. find_contact <name> gives the number; send_sms takes numbers, ideally in E.164 (+14375551234).
2. The model shows you recipient and text and waits for your yes.
3. send_sms answers handed to phone… once kdeconnectd has accepted the request. That is not delivery: the sent message shows up in list_threads / read_thread once the phone syncs it, usually within a minute.

Security and privacy

• Local only. The server talks to the D-Bus session bus and nothing else. The one network hop is KDE Connect's own encrypted link between your computer and your phone on your LAN. The server opens no sockets, has no accounts, no API keys and no telemetry.
• What the model sees. Only what a tool returns for what you asked: thread listings and the messages you have it read. Contact names come from the vCards KDE Connect already synced to ~/.local/share/kpeoplevcard/. Nothing is written to disk by the server.
• Sending is gated twice. send_sms is annotated destructiveHint, the server instructions and the skill both require the model to show you the exact recipient and text and wait for a yes in the conversation, and in Claude Code the tool permission prompt is a second gate. A group text to a few people is supported; bulk sending to lists is deliberately not.
• Supply chain. Pure Python, two dependencies (mcp, dbus-next), published from GitHub Actions with PyPI trusted publishing; the plugin pins the exact version. Audit it: 340 lines in src/.
• Privacy page: https://phone-sms.vercel.app/privacy. Report problems in the issue tracker.

Troubleshooting

• "no paired, reachable device": open KDE Connect on the phone, same Wi-Fi, kdeconnect-cli -l.
• Sent, but nothing arrives: on the phone, check that the SMS plugin is enabled for this computer and that Android granted KDE Connect the SMS permission. Watch the request leave the server with dbus-monitor --session "interface='org.kde.kdeconnect.device.conversations',member='sendWithoutConversation'".
• Names missing: enable the Contacts plugin on both ends; vCards land in ~/.local/share/kpeoplevcard/kdeconnect-<device>/.
• The kdeconnectd journal line Unimplemented conversation of type 'r' comes from the notification-forwarding plugin, not SMS.

Notes for hackers

It uses org.kde.kdeconnect.device.conversations, the interface the kdeconnect-sms app uses. The daemon object's introspection XML has duplicate methods, so device discovery is a raw D-Bus call. requestConversation first emits only cached messages, so read_thread waits for count messages or conversationLoaded, not for a quiet gap.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later for the server, like KDE Connect. The skill file in plugin/skills/phone-sms/ is MIT so skill marketplaces can redistribute it.

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