telephony

telephony is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chemany/Mente. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,188 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of telephony, MIT.

A phone and messaging connection that gives an agent a reusable Twilio number for texts, media messages, and calls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Buy and store a phone number, send or poll SMS and MMS, make direct calls, and place AI-driven outbound calls.
Why use it?
It avoids rebuilding phone handling for each session and keeps the number and related identifiers available for later use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Buy and store a phone number, send or poll SMS and MMS, make direct calls, and place AI-driven outbound calls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chemany/mente/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 chemany/Mente --skill telephony
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chemany/Mente

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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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 3,188 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 $0.03188
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01594
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00638
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00319

Measured 3d ago against content hash c7658605cd4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 3d 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 — 102 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 · 419 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 419 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 Mente 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 the active agent .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 Mente 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 Mente 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 · 419 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. 3d ago First seen · 419 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A c7658605cd4e

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telephony is a skill published in the GitHub repository chemany/Mente (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,188 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 102 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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