# Poke (slim)

> Hosted personal assistant from The Interaction Company of California, reached by text on Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS. It works across the owner's Gmail or Outlook mail, calendar, contacts and connected apps.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md (~8,500 tokens) · this version ~1,930 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-12

**F · 37.6/100 · rank #955 of 986 · #15 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

## Facts

- Kind: Platform · vendor: The Interaction Company of California Inc. · category: Personal assistants · legal entity: The Interaction Company of California Inc. · provenance 81/100
- Local only (HTTP): npm `poke`
- Auth: API key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Channels: Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS, chosen at poke.com/settings/messaging. One phone number an account. Voice messages accepted, per the home page (https://poke.com/docs; https://poke.com/faq)
- Acts without asking: The home page says Poke uses connected services and its memory proactively, and Pro runs automations in the background. No list of actions that need approval and no approval setting was found. Release notes mention email draft approval and attachment preview before sending (https://poke.com; https://poke.com/docs/release-notes)
- Accounts: Gmail and Outlook mail, calendar and contacts. Recipes for Notion, Linear, Todoist, Asana, GitHub, Sentry, Vercel, Netlify, Supabase, Ramp, Webflow, Oura and others, and any MCP server by URL. Disconnect at poke.com/integrations. Where tokens are stored is not stated (https://poke.com/docs/managing-integrations)
- Memory and deletion: The home page and FAQ refer to Poke's memory and memories. What is kept and for how long is not documented. Delete Account at poke.com/settings/privacy, up to 24 hours, backups later (https://poke.com/faq)
- Where it runs: On the vendor's servers. Model providers and hosting locations are not named. Pro and Ultra are described as using frontier models. Transfers include the United States, per the privacy notice (https://poke.com/pricing; https://poke.com/privacy)
- Training: Customer content may train AI models unless the user selects Maximum Privacy. Google account data is held to Google's Limited Use requirements (https://poke.com/privacy)
- API: `POST https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message`, Bearer key, any JSON body, answers `{"success": true, "message": "Message sent successfully"}`. The npm SDK also creates webhook triggers (https://poke.com/docs/api; npm package `poke` 4.0.461)
- MCP client: Remote MCP servers by URL, with API key or OAuth. OAuth without Dynamic Client Registration needs a client ID and secret through a Kitchen template or the CLI tunnel. Local servers reach Poke through `npx poke@latest tunnel` (https://poke.com/docs/mcp-servers)
- Plans: Free $0, Pro $19 a month, Ultra $199 a month with credits at $1 each and Poke Human (https://poke.com/pricing)
- Status: status.poke.com on incident.io. Two incidents from July to 12 October 2026, a 42-minute iMessage partial outage on 22 July and a Poke Sites issue open 15 to 29 September (https://status.poke.com/history)
- Ownership: The Interaction Company of California Inc., 169 Waverley St, Palo Alto, per the privacy notice. Joined Cognition on 23 July 2026 (https://poke.com/privacy; https://cognition.com/blog/interaction)
- Prices: Pro $19 per month (plan); Ultra $199 per month (plan); Ultra top-up credit $1 per credit

- Scores: Reliability 51, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 42, Agent ergonomics 30, Security & auth 24, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 31, Transparency & trust 58 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read as a hosted service. · Schema & documentation, Graded on the Poke API, the one documented interface an outside program can call. · Agent ergonomics, Graded on the Poke API and the `poke` npm package. · Security & auth, API keys are named, created in Kitchen, shown once and revoked individually, with no scopes or expiry (20). · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or pricing page (0). · Maintenance & community, The newest product entry in the release notes is Poke Human on 25 June 2026, 109 days before the check (10 of 30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with published Terms of Service, last modified 17 March 2026, naming The Interaction Company of California d/b/a Poke (15 of…
- Sources: 23, open questions: 15, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: assistant.proactive, assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, agent.mcp-client
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/poke.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke from a page on poke.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. POST JSON to `https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message` with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy `pk_` keys work only on the deprecated `/api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook`
2. Expect only `{"success": true}` back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with `apiKey` in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use `npx poke@latest mcp add -k`

## Connect

```bash
npx poke@latest login
```

```bash
curl 'https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message": "test"}'
```

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