AI phone assistant | open-source
Tel-Agent is a self-hosted gateway that connects phone lines to AI agents, routing incoming calls to people, blocking them, or handing them to an agent that can speak and use tools in real time. It is for organizations that want an AI phone assistant using their own hardware, network, credentials, and routing rules, with support for call recording, transcription, and additional messaging channels. The catalogue rules, instructions, and skills support operating or configuring Tel-Agent.
This repository also configures its own agents. See what Tel-Agent tells them →
Skill Claude Code
Use when contributing to Tel-Agent - picking an issue to work on, setting up the repository for the first time, starting or finishing a task, opening a pull request, or asking "what can I work on" / "how do I start" / "is my change ready to submit". Covers the full path from a fresh clone to a merged pull request.
Skill Claude Code
Use when adding a new messaging channel to Tel-Agent or changing an existing one — a transport under api/channels/, its official extension manifest, its settings card, tests, health and docs. Covers the file checklist, the two inbound shapes (dial-out and the public door), the credential and signature rules that are…