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telephony

From NousResearch

Give Hermes phone capabilities without core tool changes. Provision and persist a Twilio number, send and receive SMS/MMS, make direct calls, and place AI-driven outbound calls through Bland.ai or Vapi.

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NousResearch/hermes-agent
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optional-skills/productivity/telephony/SKILL.md

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# 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.
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