All the AI agents that can live in your text messages
THE SO WHAT
SMS-native agents turn the phone number into an AI surface—distribution, not model quality, becomes the moat. If your product depends on text-based workflows, assume users will start delegating via messages and design APIs and hooks accordingly.
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