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The bundled wacli skill documents search, backfill, and send commands, but it does not show how to inspect or verify a single message after a send.

That gap makes it easy for agents to guess an invalid positional form such as:

wacli messages show "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

The real command requires both the chat JID and message ID as flags:

wacli messages show --chat "[email protected]" --id "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

Root Cause

The bundled wacli skill documents search, backfill, and send commands, but it does not show how to inspect or verify a single message after a send.

That gap makes it easy for agents to guess an invalid positional form such as:

wacli messages show "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

The real command requires both the chat JID and message ID as flags:

wacli messages show --chat "[email protected]" --id "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

Fix Action

Fixed

Code Example

wacli messages show "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

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wacli messages show --chat "[email protected]" --id "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

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wacli messages show "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

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--chat and --id are required

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wacli messages show --chat "[email protected]" --id "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full
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Summary

The bundled wacli skill documents search, backfill, and send commands, but it does not show how to inspect or verify a single message after a send.

That gap makes it easy for agents to guess an invalid positional form such as:

wacli messages show "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

The real command requires both the chat JID and message ID as flags:

wacli messages show --chat "[email protected]" --id "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

Reproduction

  1. Send or locate a WhatsApp message with wacli.

  2. Try to verify it with only the message ID:

    wacli messages show "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

  3. The command fails with:

    --chat and --id are required

  4. Run the documented CLI shape from wacli messages show --help:

    wacli messages show --chat "[email protected]" --id "3EB0A9ADC55BDF882A36FF" --json --full

  5. The command succeeds.

Proposed fix

Add a compact verification/inspection section to skills/wacli/SKILL.md:

  • document wacli messages show --chat <jid> --id <message_id> --json --full
  • note that messages show does not accept a message ID as a positional argument
  • recommend verifying sent messages when formatting matters, especially multiline WhatsApp sends

Impact

This is a small skill-doc ergonomics fix. It reduces failed verification commands and helps agents confirm what was actually sent without guessing CLI syntax.

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