PocketAgent.
Your own always-on AI agent that lives on your Mac and works for you over text. No app. No browser tab. You just text it like a person. It reads, thinks, does the work, and texts you back.
Then follow the setup guide below, about 10 minutes start to finish.
Real hands. On your machine.
It's Claude, the same AI engineers use to write code all day, wired into your iMessage, running 24/7 on your Mac with real hands on the machine. Text it and it can:
Answer and research anything
Send a question, a link, an article. It reads the actual thing and gives you the straight answer.
Do real computer work
Write and fix documents, organize files, dig through folders, build spreadsheets, draft emails you copy-paste and send.
Remember everything you tell it
"Remember my garage code is 4411", "my rate is $95/hr". It keeps a memory file and uses it forever after.
Keep your list
It maintains a priority board of what you've got going and where things stand.
Calendar and reminders
"Put it on my calendar" creates real events with alarms on your iPhone.
Stay alive on its own
A watchdog checks it every 60 seconds and revives it if it ever dies. Text !status for a health check, !restart to reboot it from your phone.
Only your phone number can talk to it.
It never posts, sends, or publishes anything anywhere without your explicit go. Everything it learns stays in plain files on your Mac. No cloud accounts, no API keys.
Three things. That's the whole list.
| Thing | Why |
|---|---|
| A Mac that stays on | The agent lives on it (iMessage is Mac-only) |
| An iPhone with iMessage | That's how you talk to it |
| Claude subscription, Pro, $20/mo (claude.ai) | The AI brain. Your own account, your own login |
A Mac mini in a closet is the classic move. It just needs power, wifi, and Messages signed in to your Apple ID.
Six steps. Ten minutes.
Sign your Mac into Messages
Open the Messages app on the Mac, then Settings, then iMessage, and sign in with the same Apple ID as your iPhone. Send yourself a test text from the Mac to confirm it works.
Download and run the installer
Download the kit, double-click the zip to unzip it, then open Terminal (⌘-space, type "terminal") and run:
cd ~/Downloads/pocket-agent-kit && bash install.shIt asks your first name and phone number, installs everything (including Claude Code if you don't have it), and locks the agent to your number.
Give it permission to read your texts
System Settings, Privacy & Security, Full Disk Access, turn ON Terminal. This is what lets the agent see the messages you send it. One time, done forever.
Log in Claude
In Terminal run claude, type /login, and finish the sign-in in the browser with your Claude account. Then press ctrl-c twice to exit.
Start it
Double-click StartAgent.command in the PocketAgent folder in your home directory. A terminal window opens. That's your agent, alive. It also auto-starts every time the Mac boots from now on.
Text it
From your iPhone, text yourself: "you alive?" and it replies in that same thread. If it asks about pairing the first time, type /imessage:access in the agent's terminal window and approve your number. That's it. You have an agent.
If something's off
- No reply? Text
!status. Still silent? On the Mac, double-clickStartAgent.commandagain. - "FDA DENIED" in the terminal · redo Step 3, then restart the agent.
- It says it's logged out · redo Step 4.
- The watchdog texts you automatically if it ever goes down and revives it. Most problems fix themselves within a minute.
Six packs. All included.
This download is the full-run edition. The installer sets up all six packs for you (it asks once, hit enter). Here's what they do:
Talk instead of type
Send voice memos instead of typing. The agent transcribes and acts on them. Rambling in the truck becomes a to-do list.
Real, hyped, or garbage
Send it Instagram reels, TikToks, YouTube videos. It pulls the actual transcript and on-screen text and tells you straight: real, hyped, or garbage.
Your agent, but proactive
A daily 7am text built from your real data: priorities, WHOOP, Apple Health, weigh-ins, reminders, whatever you feed it.
Every meal, every lift
Text it every meal and workout. It logs everything, tracks protein and calories against your targets, programs your lifts, and nags you when you slack.
An overnight research desk
It vets stock tips you send it, tracks a paper portfolio, and briefs you before the open. Research only. It never trades your money.
Estimates, invoices, follow-ups
Estimates, invoices, client drafts in your voice, job tracking, receipt photos filed straight to jobs and your tax ledger, and a Friday money chaser that drafts follow-ups for every unpaid balance.
Straight answers.
Is my stuff private?
What's the total cost?
Can other people text my agent?
How do I remove it?
Your hardware.
Your accounts. Your rules.
Runs on your hardware, your accounts, your rules. Download the kit and text your agent in about ten minutes.