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Praxos Update: iMessage and SMS Actions

Details

External ID
45752463
Source
HN
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Product
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Launched
Oct. 29, 2025
Cohort
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Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.10377358490566038
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

October 29th UpdateWhat's new, in 10 seconds.* iMessage & SMS actions: have Praxos read incoming messages and do tasks for you. * Message search: Search across all your text conversations and contacts. * Quality of life upgrades: video and image editing, location-based actions, file retrieval, and more.------------------------------------------------------------------------------iMessage & SMS actionsPraxos can auto-forward inbound iMessages and SMS messages.This means that you can have your conversations stored, and later used to set up triggers or automatic actions based on the contents of incoming messages.You have granular over this feature, from picking specific senders to only taking action based on wording. It can also be much more general.For example:* If I receive a message from my dad asking me to buy milk on my way home, add it to my shopping list. * If Lucas asks me to edit a document he is drafting before Nov. 1st, add a deadline to my Google Calendar, attach the file to the event, and remind me about it next Saturday morning. * If Praxos texts my grandmother to take her medication, and she does not respond, ping me before end of day. * If I receive promotional messages, automatically reply stop. * If my mom asks me to send receipts of my last purchase, automatically fetch the receipt from my email and send it to her.Forwarding messages means that you can now also search across your entire conversation history!If you would like to start adding these automations, connect with us on Discord ( https://discord.gg/wVmrXD2dJA ) and we will help you one-on-one. They require special setup; we are working on simplifying the process.------------------------------------------------------------------------------Quality of life upgrades* Location based functionalities: Praxos can now find stuff near you, using the location to find products, paths, restaurants, etc. * Extended webhooks: We now support webhook triggers for Outlook as well. Calendar/Drive will soon be added. * Editing Images and Videos is now possible. * Voice note support: send Praxos a voice note with what you want done, and it'll get done. It works the same as text! * Messaging systems are more robust. Praxos will ask you to clarify your message if something is missing or ambiguous. * File retrieval upgrade: Praxos can now find old files that you have uploaded directly, and even fetch them for you on command/send them to you as needed.------------------------------------------------------------------------------Curious to give it a try? Visit us at https://mypraxos.com.

Enrichment

Theme
niche social and community platforms
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Workflow automation
Audience
B2B
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
imessage and sms automation
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Triggering agentic actions from incoming iMessage and SMS messages on Apple platforms requires private AppleScript/database access on macOS or complex jailbreak/MDM/VoIP integrations.

What it would actually take: Interfacing directly with iMessage requires either a macOS host continuously reading the local SQLite chat database (`~/Library/Messages/chat.db`) and sending messages via AppleScript, or integrating with specialized SMS gateway providers (Twilio/Telnyx) alongside local bridge daemons. The tricky part is maintaining resilient permissions (Full Disk Access, background daemon survivability) and parsing real-time SMS/iMessage streams on modern macOS. A solo developer can build the AI agent logic, but the local Apple sandbox bypass/integration requires niche OS-level bridge engineering.

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