Instinct

Hansard reads the one-to-one conversation with your Instinct number in macOS Messages. Each user has a different number. Capture stays off until you enter yours under Instinct number in Settings → Imports → Agents and select Save number.

You can also configure it from the CLI. Replace the synthetic example with your number, including its country code:

hansard config set imports.instinctHandle "+1 555 0101"
hansard import --source instinct --since all

If source selection is Custom, enable Instinct in the Agents list. The watcher checks the configured conversation on its polling cadence. To stop future capture, clear Instinct number and select Save number, or run hansard config unset imports.instinctHandle. Previously archived history stays available.

The reader captures text, message times, reactions, observed edits and unsends, reply references, and available attachments. One number remains one continuous Hansard conversation. Models, internal tools, measured tokens, and billing information are unavailable in Messages.

Only selected rows and selected attachments enter the archive. Hansard never archives the Messages database, other chats, or group conversations. Offline rebuild uses the preserved selection. Attachments larger than 16 MiB, missing files, and iCloud-offloaded files retain a descriptor with an explicit reason. Hansard does not download offloaded files.

Capture from the Messages store on a Mac has not been verified yet. Do not grant Full Disk Access to your terminal for it.

WhatsApp is a separate follow-up route. This importer does not read WhatsApp.