standby

standby is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-at-a-time calling process for filling one open shift or slot from a list of candidates.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find cover for no-shows, handle on-call escalation, arrange shift swaps, and fill other single openings by calling candidates in order.
Why use it?
It avoids double-booking people by stopping as soon as the first candidate accepts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps find cover for no-shows, handle on-call escalation, arrange shift swaps, and fill other single openings by calling candidates in order.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calle-ai/awesome-phone-call-agents/standby
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 CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents --skill standby
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,504 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00050 $0.01504
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00752
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00150

Measured 13d ago against content hash 4ee12829353a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

standby 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 13d ago.

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.

skills/standby/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Standby

Use this skill when the user has one slot to fill and many people who could take it, and only one of them may end up saying yes — a care home short a nurse at 05:40, a restaurant a commis before dinner service, a depot a loader before the trailer leaves.

standby is a cascade skill. It does not add a CALL-E backend queue, a provider-side campaign, a daemon, or new MCP tools. It sequences the existing one-off CALL-E call workflow: one call at a time, in an order the user supplies, stopping the moment someone accepts.

The distinction that matters: a broadcast campaign asks twenty people a question. A cascade asks one person a question, and asks the next one only because the first said no. Getting four acceptances for one shift is a worse outcome than getting none, because now a human has to un-invite three people.

When To Use

Use this skill for:

  • filling a single open shift, slot, or appointment from a list of candidates
  • on-call escalation where the next person is rung only if the previous one does not answer
  • any "ring round until someone says yes" task
  • shift-swap requests, cover requests, and last-minute no-show replacement

When Not To Use

Do not use this skill to:

  • broadcast the same message to many people — that is a campaign, not a cascade, and this skill will refuse to run calls in parallel
  • decide, on the agent's own authority, what an unclear answer meant
  • fill several slots at once from one roster; run one cascade per slot, or the stop condition is ambiguous
  • call anyone who is not on the roster the user supplied
  • guess phone numbers, country codes, timezones, languages, or regions
  • call a number the user has not confirmed the owner consented to receive calls on
  • negotiate pay, hours, or terms on the call; the goal states the shift and asks yes or no
  • retry a person who has already declined
  • keep dialling after the shift has started

Required Inputs

Ask for any of these that is missing. Do not infer one from locale, phone number, UTC offset, or earlier unrelated context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 13d ago First seen · 89 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 4ee12829353a

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standby is a skill published in the GitHub repository CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents (88 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,504 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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