Guides & engineering notes

WhatsApp for AI agents and phone systems

Step-by-step guides to connect WhatsApp to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Grok and your PBX, plus the engineering behind it: SIP bridging, the MLow voice codec, webhooks and per-number egress.

Connect WhatsApp Business API to ChatGPT
AI Agents Oct 5, 2026 · 7 min read

Connect WhatsApp Business API to ChatGPT

Connect your official WhatsApp Business API number to ChatGPT with WhatsMCP: Embedded Signup, Developer mode, templates and the 24-hour window.

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Connect WhatsApp Business API to Claude
AI Agents Oct 4, 2026 · 9 min read

Connect WhatsApp Business API to Claude

Put your official WhatsApp Business API number in Claude: Embedded Signup, one MCP URL, templates and Meta's 24-hour window handled for you.

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Connect WhatsApp to Claude: Setup Guide
AI Agents Oct 3, 2026 · 9 min read

Connect WhatsApp to Claude: Setup Guide

Connect WhatsApp to Claude Code, Claude Desktop and claude.ai with WhatsMCP: one MCP URL, OAuth sign-in, 45 tools. Setup, prompts and FAQ.

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Schematic diagram of Opus and G.711 waveforms converging into a transcoder node, in the Terminal Noir style.
Configuration Oct 2, 2026 · 4 min read

PJSIP Settings for a WhatsApp SIP Bridge

The pjsip.conf settings that matter for the WhatsMCP bridge: G.722/G.711 codec order, endpoint vs trunk, NAT, one call per number, and what doesn't cross.

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Connect WhatsApp to ChatGPT: Setup Guide
AI Agents Sep 29, 2026 · 6 min read

Connect WhatsApp to ChatGPT: Setup Guide

Connect WhatsApp to ChatGPT with WhatsMCP: turn on Developer mode, add one MCP URL, sign in with OAuth. Read, reply and manage groups from ChatGPT.

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Connect WhatsApp to Grok: Setup Guide
AI Agents Sep 26, 2026 · 5 min read

Connect WhatsApp to Grok: Setup Guide

Connect WhatsApp to Grok with WhatsMCP: a custom connector on grok.com, or the xAI API's remote MCP tool. Setup, code samples, prompts and FAQ.

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WhatsApp Message Templates Meta Approves
Configuration Sep 25, 2026 · 8 min read

WhatsApp Message Templates Meta Approves

How WhatsApp Business API templates work: categories, variables, limits, common rejection reasons, 10 examples, and sending them from an AI agent.

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Personal WhatsApp vs WhatsApp Business API
AI Agents Sep 22, 2026 · 7 min read

Personal WhatsApp vs WhatsApp Business API

Personal WhatsApp or the WhatsApp Business API for your AI agent? Features, rules, costs and setup compared, with a simple way to choose.

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Connect WhatsApp to Codex: Setup Guide
AI Agents Sep 21, 2026 · 5 min read

Connect WhatsApp to Codex: Setup Guide

Connect WhatsApp to OpenAI Codex with WhatsMCP: codex mcp add and login, or config.toml with an env-var API key. Setup, prompts and FAQ.

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Connect WhatsApp to Cursor via MCP
AI Agents Sep 15, 2026 · 5 min read

Connect WhatsApp to Cursor via MCP

Connect WhatsApp to Cursor's agent with WhatsMCP: add one entry to mcp.json, sign in with OAuth or an env-var API key, and build against a real number.

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Designing MCP Servers Agents Actually Use — WhatsMCP Engineering
AI Agents Sep 11, 2026 · 11 min read

Designing MCP Servers Agents Actually Use

A builder's field guide to Model Context Protocol servers in 2026: shaping tools as an agent UI, escaping the context tax with code execution, defending against tool poisoning, and living with the new stateless spec.

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The MLow codec in pure Go — a clean-room encoder and decoder for Meta's low-bitrate voice codec. WhatsMCP Engineering.
Audio Codecs Sep 11, 2026 · 13 min read

Rebuilding MLow: WhatsApp's Voice Codec in Pure Go

How we built a clean-room, pure-Go encoder and decoder for MLow — Meta's low-bitrate codec behind billions of WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram calls: the hybrid SILK/CELT structure, reverse-engineering it against the live library, and frame-exact validation.

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Schematic diagram of a ring of phone nodes connected to a central MCP hub, in the Terminal Noir style.
AI Agents Oct 2, 2024 · 6 min read

Scaling AI Agent Fleets with Model Context Protocol

An architectural walkthrough on exposing WhatsApp thread history and tools natively to Claude and custom agent runtimes securely.

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