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Send WhatsApp messages via the Meta WhatsApp Business API.

Parse the user's request to extract:

• Recipients: one or more phone numbers (comma-separated)
• Message type: plain text OR a named template with optional parameters
• Message content: the text body, or template name + positional params

If no recipients or message are provided, print usage for both formats and show credential status (Step 1), then stop.

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Step 1 — Load credentials

cat ~/.claude/channels/whatsapp/.env

Extract:

• META_WA_PHONE_NUMBER_ID
• META_WA_ACCESS_TOKEN
• META_WA_API_VERSION (default: v18.0 if unset)

If META_WA_PHONE_NUMBER_ID or META_WA_ACCESS_TOKEN are missing, stop and tell the user:

"WhatsApp not configured. Use the configure skill (or say 'configure WhatsApp') to save your credentials first."

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Step 2 — Parse the request

Format A — text message:

<numbers> <message text...>

• First token(s) before the message: comma-separated phone numbers
• Remainder: message body

Format B — template message:

template <numbers> <template_name> [param1 param2 ...]

• First token: literal template
• Second token: comma-separated phone numbers
• Third token: template name
• Remaining tokens: positional params for {{1}}, {{2}}, etc.

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Step 3 — Normalize each phone number

Apply these rules in order:

1. Strip spaces, dashes, and parentheses.
2. Starts with + → use as-is.
3. Starts with 00 → replace leading 00 with +.
4. Exactly 10 digits → prepend +91 (India default).
5. Otherwise → prepend +.

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Step 4 — Send messages

Text message

For each normalized number, run:

curl -s -X POST \
  "https://graph.facebook.com/${META_WA_API_VERSION}/${META_WA_PHONE_NUMBER_ID}/messages" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${META_WA_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{
    \"messaging_product\": \"whatsapp\",
    \"recipient_type\": \"individual\",
    \"to\": \"NORMALIZED_NUMBER\",
    \"type\": \"text\",
    \"text\": {
      \"preview_url\": false,
      \"body\": \"MESSAGE_TEXT\"
    }
  }"

Template message

Build a params array from positional args: [{"type":"text","text":"param1"}, ...]

For each normalized number, run:

curl -s -X POST \
  "https://graph.facebook.com/${META_WA_API_VERSION}/${META_WA_PHONE_NUMBER_ID}/messages" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${META_WA_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{
    \"messaging_product\": \"whatsapp\",
    \"to\": \"NORMALIZED_NUMBER\",
    \"type\": \"template\",
    \"template\": {
      \"name\": \"TEMPLATE_NAME\",
      \"language\": {\"code\": \"en_US\"},
      \"components\": [{
        \"type\": \"body\",
        \"parameters\": PARAMS_ARRAY
      }]
    }
  }"

Omit components entirely if no params were provided.

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Step 5 — Report results

For each number:

• Success (messages[0].id present in response): ✓ Sent to <number> — ID: <message_id>
• Error: show error.message from response verbatim

Final summary line: X of Y sent successfully.

Never print the access token. If it must appear in output, mask it as EAAx....

Common errors

• 401 — Token expired. Tell the user to re-run the configure skill with a fresh token.
• 400 — Invalid number, unknown template, or wrong param count — display Meta's error message verbatim.