pharmacy-stock-check

Pharmacy stock check

Finding a medication that is actually in stock means calling pharmacies one at a time and asking the same four questions. This skill does the calling and returns a ranked answer.

It is a good fit for CALL-E's design: low-frequency, personal, high-stakes phone work that was never worth automating with a traditional call platform.

Before you start

This skill places real phone calls to real businesses. Confirm with the user:

• the medication, dosage and quantity
• which pharmacies to call, as E.164 numbers
• that they want calls placed now

Never infer a phone number. Never call a number the user did not supply or approve.

Safety boundaries

This skill gathers availability and pricing information only.

• It does not give medical advice, recommend a medication, or suggest a substitute. If a pharmacist offers an alternative, report it verbatim as something the pharmacist said — never as a recommendation.
• It does not place an order, reserve stock, or commit to a purchase on the user's behalf.
• It is not for emergencies. If someone needs medication urgently, they should contact emergency services or an urgent care provider, not wait on an agent.
• Prescription requirements are reported, never worked around.
• Report the pharmacist's answer and the confidence score. Do not present a low-confidence result as fact — the user may travel somewhere while unwell on the strength of it.

Workflow

1. Collect the request

Required: medication name, dosage, quantity, recipient region, and the list of pharmacy phone numbers in E.164 format.

Validate every number before anything else happens. E.164 is a plus, a non-zero country code digit, then 7–14 more digits — ^\+[1-9]\d{7,14}$. Reject anything else and ask the user; never guess a country code. A local number silently reaching the planner is how the wrong person gets called.

2. Build the goal

CALL-E's MCP surface has no result_schema parameter, so the fields you want must be named in the goal text. CALL-E honours them reliably and emits them in result.summary.