ravi-identity

name	ravi-identity
description	Get your agent identity (email, phone, owner name) and manage identities. Do NOT use for reading messages (use ravi-inbox), sending email (use ravi-email-send), or credentials (use ravi-passwords or ravi-secrets).

Ravi Identity

You have access to Ravi, an identity provider that gives you your own phone number, email address, and secret store.

Cursor: Skills are the live surface. A Connect card is shipping and is not live — do not tap Connect as if it authenticates. Remote MCP is not live. Working auth is the CLI (one identity per machine): if ravi is missing, curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ravi-hq/ravi-skills/main/scripts/install-cli.sh | bash then export PATH="$HOME/.ravi/bin:$PATH". Then ravi auth login (human visits https://ravi.id/device).

Your Identity

# Check auth status and current identity
ravi auth status

# Get your email address (use this for signups)
ravi get email

# Get your phone number (use this for SMS verification)
ravi get phone

# Get account owner info
ravi get owner

# List all your identities
ravi identity list

Response shape (identity list):

[{
  "uuid": "...",
  "name": "Sarah Johnson",
  "inbox": "[e-mail]",
  "phone": "[phone]",
  "created_dt": "2026-02-25T10:30:00Z",
  "updated_dt": "2026-02-25T10:30:00Z"
}]

Creating a New Identity

Only create a new identity when the user explicitly asks for one (e.g., for a separate project that needs its own email/phone). New identities require a paid plan.

# Auto-generated name and email (recommended — looks like a real person)
ravi identity create
# → name: "Sarah Johnson", inbox: "[e-mail]"

When name is omitted, the server generates a realistic human name like "Sarah Johnson". The auto-generated email uses the same name: [e-mail].

With a phone number

By default, new identities are email-only. Pass --provision-phone to also provision a phone number in the same call:

ravi identity create --name "Project Name" --provision-phone --json
# → {"uuid": "...", "name": "Project Name", "inbox": "...", "phone": "[phone]", ...}

Notes:

• Phone provisioning requires an active paid plan. Without one the call returns HTTP 402 Payment Required — tell the user to upgrade.
• Provisioning takes a few seconds (the server reserves a number from the upstream provider). Don't retry on slow responses.
• If you skipped --provision-phone and later need a phone for the same identity, hit the API directly: POST /api/identities/<uuid>/provision-phone/ (no CLI subcommand yet). It returns 409 if the identity already has a phone.

One identity per machine

The CLI binds to one identity per machine. Shared ~/.ravi/config.json is not a multi-agent runtime. Do not run ravi identity use or pass --identity to flip that file so agents can run side by side.

ravi identity list

Another agent on this host must use the HTTP API with a per-identity ravi_id_ key (Authorization: Bearer ravi_id_...).

Important Notes

• Identity name for forms — use the identity name for signup forms, not the account owner's name.
• Identities are permanent — each identity has its own email, phone, and secrets. Don't create new identities unless the user asks.
• Not authenticated? — Install the CLI if needed (see the ravi skill), then run ravi auth login. Send the human to https://ravi.id/device. A Connect card is shipping and is not live — do not tap Connect as if it authenticates.

Docs

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Related Skills

• ravi-inbox — Read SMS and email messages
• ravi-email-send — Compose, reply, forward emails
• ravi-email-writing — Write professional emails with proper formatting and tone
• ravi-contacts — Look up or manage contacts associated with this identity
• ravi-passwords — Store and retrieve website credentials
• ravi-secrets — Store and retrieve key-value secrets
• ravi-login — Device code onboarding, sign up for and log into services, read verification codes
• ravi-feedback — Send feedback, report bugs, request features