panghy/whatsapp-mcp-server

The project is a nascent (0 days old, 0 stars) implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for WhatsApp. While the choice of an Electron app suggests an attempt to bypass the friction of the official WhatsApp Business API by leveraging a logged-in browser session, this approach is common and lacks a technical moat. Defensibility is extremely low as this is a standard wrapper pattern that dozens of developers are currently applying to every available API following Anthropic's release of the MCP spec. Frontier labs like OpenAI or Anthropic are highly likely to integrate official messaging connectors or facilitate them through partnerships, making niche, unofficial wrappers like this one high-risk. Furthermore, Meta (WhatsApp) has a history of breaking unofficial web-automation wrappers. Competitively, it faces pressure from more established libraries like 'whatsapp-web.js' and 'Baileys', which could easily add MCP support and instantly displace this project.