phone

name	phone
description	Verify phone numbers (carrier + SIM-swap fraud signals) and place AI-powered outbound voice calls via BlockRun's gateway (Twilio + Bland.ai). Trigger when the user asks to look up a number, check fraud risk, buy/rent a phone number, or place an AI voice call. Payment is automatic via x402 from the wallet.
triggers	["blockrun phone","blockrun voice","voice call","outbound call","ai phone call","ai voice call","phone number lookup","phone number verification","carrier lookup","sim swap","sim-swap detection","phone fraud check","buy phone number","rent phone number","twilio number","bland.ai","blockrun bland"]
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Phone & Voice

Phone-number intelligence (Twilio Lookup) and AI-powered outbound voice calls (Bland.ai) through ClawRouter's local proxy. Payment is automatic via x402 from the user's BlockRun wallet.

Shortcuts:

• Slash: /cr-call +1<E.164> "<task>" [--voice nat] [--max-duration 5] [--from +1<owned-number>] [--language en-US]
• CLI: clawrouter phone numbers list/buy/renew/release, clawrouter phone lookup <+E.164>, clawrouter phone fraud <+E.164>
• Partner tools (LLM-callable): blockrun_phone_lookup, blockrun_phone_lookup_fraud, blockrun_phone_numbers_buy/renew/list/release, blockrun_voice_call, blockrun_voice_status

⚠️ Real-world side effects. blockrun_voice_call places a real outbound phone call to a real number. Only invoke when the user has explicitly asked for a call to be placed. Server enforces an emergency-number blocklist.

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Phone Number Intelligence (Twilio)

Carrier + Line Type Lookup — $0.01

POST to http://localhost:8402/v1/phone/lookup:

{ "phoneNumber": "[phone]" }

Returns carrier name, line type (mobile / landline / voip), country, mobile country/network codes. Use to verify whether a number is reachable, detect VoIP/spam patterns, or route SMS appropriately.

Fraud Risk Check — $0.05

POST to http://localhost:8402/v1/phone/lookup/fraud:

{ "phoneNumber": "[phone]" }

Adds SIM-swap recency and call-forwarding signals on top of carrier+line type. Run this before sending sensitive SMS codes or initiating account-recovery flows — a number flagged for recent SIM swap is high-risk for account takeover.

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Wallet-Owned Phone Numbers

Numbers are leased for 30 days, bound to the wallet's payer address. Use one as the from parameter of voice_call to present a stable caller ID.

Buy — $5.00 / 30 days

POST to http://localhost:8402/v1/phone/numbers/buy:

{ "country": "US", "areaCode": "415" }

country is "US" or "CA". areaCode is optional (3-digit, best-effort match). Returns { phone_number, expires_at, chain }.

Renew — $5.00 / +30 days

POST to http://localhost:8402/v1/phone/numbers/renew:

{ "phoneNumber": "[phone]" }

Run before the existing lease expires. Numbers not renewed are released back to the pool.

List — $0.001

POST to http://localhost:8402/v1/phone/numbers/list with an empty body. Returns an array of { phone_number, expires_at, country, chain }. The CLI surfaces this as a human table with renew-soon warnings:

$ clawrouter phone numbers list

Active numbers (2):
  [phone]   US   expires 2026-06-12 (in 27d)
  [phone]   US   expires 2026-05-18 (in 2d) ⚠ renew soon

Release — free

POST to http://localhost:8402/v1/phone/numbers/release:

{ "phoneNumber": "[phone]" }

No refund. Use only when the user has explicitly asked to give up the number.

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AI Voice Call (Bland.ai)

Place a Call — $0.54 flat (up to 30 min)

POST to http://localhost:8402/v1/voice/call:

{
  "to": "[phone]",
  "task": "Call and confirm the 3pm Thursday meeting; reschedule if they can't make it.",
  "voice": "nat",
  "max_duration": 5,
  "from": "[phone]",
  "language": "en-US"
}

Required: to (E.164), task (free-form natural language — what the AI should say or accomplish).

Optional:

Field	Default	Notes
voice	nat	Presets: nat, josh, maya, june, paige, derek, florian. Or a custom Bland voice ID.
max_duration	5	Maximum minutes (1–30). Price is flat $0.54 regardless of actual duration.
from	auto-picked	Must be a wallet-owned number from phone_numbers_list. If omitted, server auto-picks from wallet's active numbers — see auto-pick rules below.
language	en-US	Any spoken-language ISO code, e.g. es-ES, zh-CN, de-DE.

from auto-pick rules (server-side, after payment verification):

Wallet active numbers	Behavior
0	403 no_active_number — response includes buy_endpoint + marketplace URL so caller can provision first
Exactly 1	Auto-used as caller ID
2+	400 ambiguous_from — response lists all active numbers; retry with from set explicitly

If an explicit from is supplied but the wallet doesn't own it, the response is 403 with a clear ownership-mismatch message (no charge taken when validation fails).

Response is fire-and-forget:

{
  "call_id": "call_abc123",
  "poll_url": "/v1/voice/call/call_abc123",
  "status": "queued"
}

The call runs in the cloud for up to max_duration minutes. The HTTP response returns immediately — do not wait for the call to finish. Poll voice_status every 10–30s to retrieve transcript and recording when the call completes.

Poll Status — free

GET http://localhost:8402/v1/voice/call/{call_id}. Returns:

{
  "call_id": "call_abc123",
  "status": "completed",
  "duration_seconds": 47,
  "transcript": [
    { "role": "assistant", "text": "Hi, this is calling to confirm tomorrow's 3pm meeting..." },
    { "role": "user", "text": "Yes, that still works." }
  ],
  "recording_url": "https://..."
}

status progresses through queued → in_progress → completed or failed. The transcript array and recording URL only appear on completed. On failed, an error field describes why.

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Example Agentic Flows

Verify before texting:

User: "Send a verification code to [phone]" Agent: First call blockrun_phone_lookup_fraud({ phoneNumber: "[phone]" }). If sim_swap.last_sim_swap is within the past 7 days, refuse and ask the user to confirm out-of-band. Otherwise proceed.

Appointment confirmation:

User: "Call my client at [phone] and confirm tomorrow's 3pm meeting" Agent: blockrun_voice_call({ to: "[phone]", task: "Call to confirm the 3pm Thursday meeting; if they can't make it, offer to reschedule for Friday morning.", max_duration: 5 }). Returns call_id. Tell the user: "Calling now — I'll have the transcript in a few minutes." Then blockrun_voice_status({ callId }) every 30s until completed, then summarize the transcript.

Acquire dedicated caller ID:

User: "Buy me a San Francisco number for the next 30 days" Agent: blockrun_phone_numbers_buy({ country: "US", areaCode: "415" }). Confirm the assigned number to the user and warn them: "Lease expires in 30 days, costs $5 to renew."

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Notes

• Payment is automatic via x402 — deducted from the user's BlockRun wallet on every call
• If a call fails with a 402, tell the user to fund their wallet at blockrun.ai
• Phone numbers are real, regulated resources — numbers bought are reachable from any phone within ~60 seconds of purchase
• Bland.ai's emergency-number blocklist is enforced server-side; ClawRouter does not duplicate it but trusts upstream
• Recordings and transcripts are retained by Bland.ai; ClawRouter does not download them locally (returns the upstream URL)
• For programmatic polling, see the voice_status tool — for one-off CLI checks, hit curl http://localhost:8402/v1/voice/call/{call_id} directly