ivr-crawler

ivr-crawler is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin. It costs 13 tokens per session (4,297 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A tool for mapping an interactive voice response (IVR) system, the phone menu that asks callers to choose options. It calls the number, navigates menus with keypad tones, and records the branches it finds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document an existing IVR, plan a migration to Twilio, analyze its structure, create a JSON or text tree, generate VoiceXML, or parse customer-provided VoiceXML.
Why use it?
It turns a difficult-to-document phone tree into a structured map, including transfers, dead ends, loops, languages, and business-hour behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the twilio-claude-plugin plugin — 67 skills, 18 commands, 7 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin/ivr-crawler
Any agent
npx skills add wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin --skill ivr-crawler
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install twilio-claude-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 67 skills, 18 commands, 7 agents, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,297 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00013 $0.04297
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.02148
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00859
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00430

Measured 5d ago against content hash b62b4fba3530, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ivr-crawler scanned grade C with 2 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 5d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | python3 -c "

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | python3 -c "
skills/ivr-crawler/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: ivr-crawler description: Crawl and map IVR phone trees autonomously. Use when mapping an existing IVR system, migrating an IVR to Twilio, or analyzing IVR structure. Triggers on "crawl IVR", "map IVR", "IVR migration", "replicate IVR".

IVR Crawler

Autonomously maps any IVR phone system by calling it, navigating every branch via DTMF, and producing a structured tree. The output feeds /ivr-migrator to rebuild the IVR on Twilio.

Evidence: Live-tested 2026-03-25 against GlobalTech Solutions test IVR. 22 calls, 22 nodes, 10m 44s, 100% completion. Account ACxx...xx

Scope

CAN

  • Crawl any phone number's IVR via outbound calls
  • Navigate menus using DTMF (sendDigits on calls.create())
  • Detect menu options, dead ends, transfers, hold music, callbacks, business hours
  • Handle multi-language IVRs (detected per-node via Claude analysis)
  • Detect cycles (return-to-menu, redirects) and avoid infinite exploration
  • Output structured JSON (IvrTree) and ASCII tree visualization
  • Speak through ConversationRelay for speech-only menus
  • Generate VoiceXML 2.1 from crawl output (VXML generator)
  • Parse customer-provided VXML documents into IvrTree IR (VXML parser)
  • Generate Twilio Serverless Functions from VXML (full VXML-to-TwiML pipeline)
  • Round-trip validation: IvrTree → VXML → parse → TwiML → deploy → crawl → compare

CANNOT

  • Navigate auth-protected IVRs without test credentials — but CAN navigate payment IVRs when test data (account, ZIP, card) is provided via scenario configuration
  • Interact with IVRs that use only speech recognition (no DTMF) beyond basic keyword navigation
  • Guarantee timing alignment with every IVR (some need longer sendDigits delays)
  • Make calls without a Twilio phone number and valid credentials
  • Run without ngrok or another WebSocket tunnel

Quick Decision

Need Action
Map an existing IVR Run /ivr-crawler with the phone number
Migrate IVR to Twilio Run /ivr-crawler first, then /ivr-migrator on the output
Customer has VXML docs Parse VXML → IvrTree IR → generate TwiML handlers directly
Generate VXML from crawl Use generateVxml(tree) to create VoiceXML for customer review
Test our own IVR Call +15550100009 (GlobalTech test IVR) or crawl it
Debug a failed crawl Check validate_call(callSid) for the failing call

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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. 5d ago First seen · 292 lines · 13 tokens per session scan C b62b4fba3530

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ivr-crawler is a skill published in the GitHub repository wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 4,297 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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