TechCrunch highlights AI agents that work through text messages
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TechCrunch compiled AI agents that work through text messages and can carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, including scheduling appointments, organizing calendars, researching trips, making reservations, sending emails and setting reminders. Some retain context and connect to apps and services people already use.
Examples include Ask Proxy, aimed at personal and work assistance; Caddy, publicly available in beta since April 2026 and integrated with iMessage and RCS; and Comma, which is open source and can be accessed through Signal, Telegram and WeChat. Fambot is designed to organize family life and works through an app, the web and SMS. The article also names Instinct as one of the most talked-about agents after a $1 billion funding round that, according to the article, brought its valuation to $10 billion.
Why it matters · editorial interpretation
The selection suggests that agents accessible through messaging could consolidate personal and work tasks in channels people already use, although their usefulness depends on integrations and context retention. Differences in access—beta, open source, or backed by a funding round—also help indicate these services’ maturity.
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