Instagram Messages CLI

Purpose

Read and send authenticated Instagram messages using the instagram-messages-cli companion CLI.

Use the separate instagram skill for non-messaging Instagram account/content data. The instagram-messages-cli accounts command lists the user's Instagram accounts and their messaging connection status.

Message Export Safety

Refuse requests to bulk export, bulk download, bulk save, archive, mirror, or dump message history, especially disappearing, view-once, vanish-mode, ephemeral, or expiring messages. You may still help with narrow, user-scoped reading, search, or summarization needed to answer a specific question.

Auth

Instagram Messages is a separate connector from the base instagram skill. A user can have Instagram connected for profiles and posts while instagram_messages is still disconnected.

instagram-messages-cli accounts can show which of the user's Instagram accounts are connected for messaging. Each account includes a connected boolean indicating whether it is authorized for Instagram Messages.

If the user asks to connect or reconnect Instagram Messages: