telephony

telephony is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,153 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of telephony, MIT.

A phone and messaging add-on for Zorro that uses Twilio and optional AI calling services. Twilio provides phone numbers, calls, and text messages through software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to buy and remember a Twilio number, send SMS or picture messages, check incoming texts, make spoken calls, and place AI-assisted outbound calls through Bland.ai or Vapi.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a reusable phone number and basic calling and texting without changing its core tools. Incoming texts are checked by polling rather than through a live phone gateway.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to buy and remember a Twilio number, send SMS or picture messages, check incoming texts, make spoken calls, and place AI-assisted outbound calls through Bland.ai or Vapi.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/braxtonrose4/zorro-agent/telephony
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent --skill telephony
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,153 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 80% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.03153
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01577
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00315

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7d955a264e32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

telephony scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/telephony.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

80% identical to telephony — 111 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

optional-skills/productivity/telephony/SKILL.md · 418 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 418 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Telephony — Numbers, Calls, and Texts without Core Tool Changes

This optional skill gives Zorro practical phone capabilities while keeping telephony out of the core tool list.

It ships with a helper script, scripts/telephony.py, that can:

  • save provider credentials into ~/.zorro/.env
  • search for and buy a Twilio phone number
  • remember that owned number for later sessions
  • send SMS / MMS from the owned number
  • poll inbound SMS for that number with no webhook server required
  • make direct Twilio calls using TwiML <Say> or <Play>
  • import the owned Twilio number into Vapi
  • place outbound AI calls through Bland.ai or Vapi

What this solves

This skill is meant to cover the practical phone tasks users actually want:

  • outbound calls
  • texting
  • owning a reusable agent number
  • checking messages that arrive to that number later
  • preserving that number and related IDs between sessions
  • future-friendly telephony identity for inbound SMS polling and other automations

It does not turn Zorro into a real-time inbound phone gateway. Inbound SMS is handled by polling the Twilio REST API. That is enough for many workflows, including notifications and some one-time-code retrieval, without adding core webhook infrastructure.

Safety rules — mandatory

  1. Always confirm before placing a call or sending a text.
  2. Never dial emergency numbers.
  3. Never use telephony for harassment, spam, impersonation, or anything illegal.
  4. Treat third-party phone numbers as sensitive operational data:
    • do not save them to Zorro memory
    • do not include them in skill docs, summaries, or follow-up notes unless the user explicitly wants that
  5. It is fine to persist the agent-owned Twilio number because that is part of the user's configuration.
  6. VoIP numbers are not guaranteed to work for all third-party 2FA flows. Use with caution and set user expectations clearly.

Decision tree — which service to use?

Use this logic instead of hardcoded provider routing:

Read the full file on GitHub · 418 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 418 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 7d955a264e32

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telephony is a skill published in the GitHub repository braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent (8 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,153 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 80% identical to telephony, differing in 111 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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