twilio-migrate-messaging-to-verify

twilio-migrate-messaging-to-verify is a skill for Claude Code from twilio/ai. It costs 137 tokens per session (3,168 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A migration guide for replacing a self-built SMS one-time-passcode flow with Twilio Verify. Twilio Verify manages code creation, delivery, expiration, rate limits, and fraud checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a Verify Service and replace custom code-sending and code-checking logic with the Verify API.
Why use it?
It removes the need to maintain code generation, storage, expiry, resend rules, attempt tracking, and parts of SMS fraud and compliance handling.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai plugin — 57 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a Verify Service and replace custom code-sending and code-checking logic with the Verify API.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/twilio/ai/twilio-migrate-messaging-to-verify
View source ↗ twilio/ai
About the project

Twilio for AI provides coding agents with skills and an MCP server for using Twilio services and documentation. The MCP server searches Twilio documentation and API specifications and retrieves full schemas for selected operations, while the skills supply procedural guidance to agents. Its catalogue add-ons are intended for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other tools that support the Agent Skills standard.

twilio/ai · 32 stars · on GitHub

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 twilio/ai --skill twilio-migrate-messaging-to-verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/twilio/ai

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,168 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 $0.00137 $0.03168
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01584
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00634
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00317

Measured 11d ago against content hash ca7c95d93d84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

twilio-migrate-messaging-to-verify 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 11d 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/twilio/twilio-migrate-messaging-to-verify/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

If you built OTP on the Programmable Messaging API, you are maintaining code that Twilio Verify manages for you: random code generation, a database of codes with expiry, resend/rate-limit logic, and fraud filtering. Verify replaces that entire stack with two API calls — send a verification, check a code — and adds one-click Fraud Guard (SMS pumping protection), managed sender pools, and automatic A2P/compliance handling.

What you delete when you migrate:

You built (Programmable Messaging) Verify replaces it with
Buy/manage a sending number or Messaging Service Managed sender pool (short/long code, toll-free, alpha ID) chosen per-country
random.randint(...) code generation Built-in generation (4–10 digits, default 6)
DB table storing code, phone, expires_at Stateless — Verify tracks the code and 10-min expiry
Custom resend throttling / attempt counting Built-in rate limits (5 sends & 5 checks per number / 10 min)
SMS pumping / fraud filtering Fraud Guard (geo-permissions, rate anomaly) — one click
A2P 10DLC campaign registration for the OTP number Exempt — Verify traffic needs no 10DLC campaign
Per-channel integration (SMS, voice, WhatsApp…) One API; change the channel param
Locale-specific message copy Pre-screened templates in dozens of languages, auto-resolved by country

This skill focuses on the migration. For full Verify API reference (all channels, service config, status values), see twilio-verify-send-otp. To decide whether Verify fits before writing code, see twilio-identity-verification-advisor.

When to stay on Programmable Messaging: you need full control of the message body/branding beyond what templates allow, custom delivery routing, or you are sending non-OTP transactional traffic. For standard OTP/2FA, migrate to Verify.


Prerequisites

  • An existing Programmable Messaging OTP implementation (the thing you're replacing)
  • Twilio account — New to Twilio? See twilio-account-setup
  • Environment variables:
    • TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID
    • TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN
    • VERIFY_SERVICE_SID (created in Step 1 below) — See twilio-iam-auth-setup for credential setup
  • SDK: pip install twilio / npm install twilio (same SDK you already use)
  • Verify needs no separate product activation — just create a Service

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 263 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A ca7c95d93d84

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twilio-migrate-messaging-to-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository twilio/ai (32 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 3,168 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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