Alive5 SMS runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 4 installs a week from npm.
List SMS lines, send texts and read recent inbound messages with Alive5.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Alive5 SMS every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add alive5-sms -e 'ALIVE5_API_KEY=<ALIVE5_API_KEY>' -- npx -y alive5-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"alive5-sms": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"alive5-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ALIVE5_API_KEY": "<ALIVE5_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.alive5-sms]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "alive5-mcp"]
env = { ALIVE5_API_KEY = "<ALIVE5_API_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"alive5-sms": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"alive5-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ALIVE5_API_KEY": "<ALIVE5_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"alive5-sms": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"alive5-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ALIVE5_API_KEY": "<ALIVE5_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<ALIVE5_API_KEY> (Your Alive5 API key).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
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Alive5 SMS — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.