telephony

telephony is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTG. It costs 17 tokens per session (3,141 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of telephony, MIT.

A set of scripts for buying and managing Twilio phone numbers, sending texts, making calls, and placing outbound AI calls through supported providers. Twilio is a communications service for phone numbers, voice calls, and SMS or MMS messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for obtaining a reusable phone number, sending SMS or MMS, checking incoming texts, making voice calls, and starting outbound AI calls.
Why use it?
It brings common phone tasks into scripts and preserves the number and related identifiers between sessions. Incoming texts are checked by polling the service rather than through a live inbound gateway.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for obtaining a reusable phone number, sending SMS or MMS, checking incoming texts, making voice calls, and starting outbound AI calls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/milkyway008/hermes-otg/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 MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTG --skill telephony
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTG

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,141 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 100% 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 $0.00017 $0.03141
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01571
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00628
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00314

Measured 7d ago against content hash 18f06ecc57dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 7d 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

100% identical to telephony — 56 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.

data/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 Hermes 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 ${HERMES_HOME:-~/.hermes}/.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 Hermes 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 Hermes 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. 7d ago First seen · 419 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 18f06ecc57dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

telephony is a skill published in the GitHub repository MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTG (15 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 3,141 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to telephony, differing in 56 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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