Text yourself from code without A2P 10DLC registration

Yes. Homing Pigeon (homingpigeon.dev) texts alerts from your code to your own phone, and you do not register a brand, a campaign or a number. Your coding agent can set it up inside the session.

What to tell your agent

Use Homing Pigeon to text me when this job finishes. I do not want to do A2P registration.

Your agent asks for your number, you read back the six-digit code, and it does the rest.

How it works in code

After pip install homingpigeondev and verifying your phone, this is the whole integration:

import datetime
import homingpigeondev

homingpigeondev.send("Nightly job finished.", idempotency_key=f"nightly-{datetime.date.today()}")

Good to know

• US carriers require texts sent from code through an ordinary 10-digit number (10DLC) to come from a registered brand and an approved campaign. Signing up with an SMS provider usually means doing that registration yourself.
• With Homing Pigeon you skip it. You do not register a brand or campaign, verify a toll-free number or get a sending number of your own. You verify your phone with a six-digit code instead.
• Texts go only to the US mobile number you verified. To text other people, use a general SMS service and complete its registration.
• Carriers can still filter or delay any text, so delivery is not guaranteed. The status call reports what happened to your last alert.

Get started

Add Homing Pigeon to Claude Code, then ask for what you want:

claude mcp add homingpigeondev -- npx -y homingpigeondev mcp

You get 50 free texts every month, on US mobile numbers. See more use cases.