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AI · May 15, 2026

MIT OSS LinkedIn DMs for Agents (CLI and Example TUI)

I was tired of paying $100s/mo to access data I should own -- my own DMs on social media -- so I built Allman, a local-first cli to access linkedin messenger. Starting with LinkedIn, I gave the entire compiled js binary of linkedin's web app to claudecode and reversed engineered the entire messenger inbox in 24 hours. My goal is to bring this to all messengers so AI can handle all of this busywork, just like it can my email. I had also never built a TUI so I had claudecode build me one based on top of the local CLI and filesystem. Full repos:…

MIT OSS LinkedIn DMs for Agents (CLI and Example TUI) launched on May 15, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,742 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Your LinkedIn inbox, locally cached and AI-ready. CLI + TUI for power users.

A local-first, AI-native CLI and terminal UI for the messages humans send each other. Read, search, reply, and pipe to agents — all from your shell. ▸ LinkedIn today. iMessage, Slack, Discord, email, SMS next. Messages are plain JSONL in a local git repo. No cloud sync. No telemetry. cat , grep , and git log work exactly as you'd expect. Every command speaks --json . NDJSON event streams feed agents in real time. No SDK to learn — just shell out. Full terminal UI with vim bindings, inline search, and emoji reactions. Designed for people who already live in tmux . allman's ambition is the same as sendmail's was for email — one open, programmable, local-first layer for every messaging…from allman.sh

In the maker’s words, at launch

I was tired of paying $100s/mo to access data I should own -- my own DMs on social media -- so I built Allman, a local-first cli to access linkedin messenger. Starting with LinkedIn, I gave the entire compiled js binary of linkedin's web app to claudecode and reversed engineered the entire messenger inbox in 24…

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