PlaceCall ☎️

PlaceCall ☎️

The internet has APIs. The real world has phone numbers.

Give your agent a voice to call any US business, handle reservations, gatherinformation, get quotes. Handles IVRs & hold. Returns outcome + transcript.First 250 calls free.

curl -s -X POST https://api.voygr.tech/calls \
  -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Client-Surface: gh-repo" \
  -H "X-Client-Agent: ${CLAUDECODE:+claude-code}${CURSOR_AGENT:+cursor}${CODEX_SANDBOX:+codex}${GEMINI_CLI:+gemini-cli}" \
  -d '{"target_phone":"+1XXXXXXXXXX","brief":"Call this restaurant and ask what time the kitchen closes tonight.","language":"en"}'

Authentication: every request carries your key in the X-API-Key header.Get one at https://api.voygr.tech/checkout - it arrives by email.

What PlaceCall does

Give PlaceCall a US number (or a list) and a task in plain English - frommaking an inquiry to requesting a quote or completing a booking - and itdials, navigates IVRs and hold, talks to a business, and returns a verifiedoutcome + transcript + recording.

No number? Just describe the place: "a romantic restaurant in Chicago,Saturday 8pm". PlaceCall finds candidates, explains why it picked them, andwrites the call brief for you.

Put the full job in the brief - what to ask, who it's for, names, dates,party size, callback number, and desired outcome. The agent reads the brief,then gets things done. If necessary - agents will ask questions mid-call.

What your agents can finally do

• 🍽️ Book / cancel / reschedule tables and appointments
• 📦 Verify info, follow up on orders, check stock, get quotes
• ⚡️ Contact many businesses at once
• 📍 Recommend the best venue, service, or vendor when you don't have a number
• ✅ Report exactly what happened, raise a question mid-call if needed

What you get back

Every call returns one of 17 verified outcomes, plus the full transcript andrecording - including clear failure reasons like dropped calls, busy lines,voicemail, or wrong numbers.

Why developers use PlaceCall

Built for agents that need to get shit done. Built by developers whomapped the world - ex-Google Maps & Search team.

🎁 Your first 250 calls are on us.

If PlaceCall is useful, drop us a ⭐ - it helps a lot.

Install

Installing the skill needs no key - it just teaches your agent how to call theAPI. You add your key separately (next section) before placing real calls.

Claude Code (recommended)

Two commands, no shell, no git - and it auto-updates from this repo:

/plugin marketplace add voygr-tech/placecall
/plugin install placecall@placecall

Claude Code asks where to install it - choose user scope ("Install for you")unless you specifically want it confined to one repository. The skill then answersto /placecall:placecall, and Claude reaches for it on itsown whenever you ask to call someone.

Claude Code, without the plugin

git clone https://github.com/voygr-tech/placecall && cd placecall
./install.sh     # copies skills/placecall/SKILL.md -> ~/.claude/skills/placecall/

install.sh is a tiny convenience script - it only copiesskills/placecall/SKILL.md into your skills dir (no network, no other sideeffects); you can also copy it by hand. Then start a fresh Claude Code session(skills load at startup). Note that a copy never updates itself - if you want newskills and fixes as we ship them, prefer the plugin above.

Cowork

Same package as the Claude Code plugin, no terminal at all:

1. Customize > Plugins > Add marketplace
2. Paste voygr-tech/placecall
3. Click Install on the PlaceCall card

Auto-updates from this repo, like the Code plugin.

Then do both of these, in ~/.claude/settings.json. Cowork has no terminal,so the export in the next section has nothing to run in, and the Bash sandboxblocks our API until you allow it:

{
  "env": { "PLACECALL_API_KEY": "<your key>" },
  "sandbox": { "network": { "allowedDomains": ["api.voygr.tech"] } }
}

Restart Cowork afterwards. Why each half matters:

• env puts the key somewhere that survives a reboot. Setting it in a shelldoes not reach a desktop app, which never sees that shell.
• allowedDomains pre-allows api.voygr.tech. Claude Code pre-allows nodomains, so without this you get a permission prompt on the first call, and ifyour organisation sets strictAllowlist or allowManagedDomainsOnly the callis blocked outright with no prompt. That is the "deep admin setting" peoplehit.

Your key sits in plaintext in that file, same trust level as the 600 env filein the next section. chmod 600 ~/.claude/settings.json if you want the filepermissions to match.

claude.ai chat

Works on every plan via a custom connector with sign-in. No key to copy.

Setup. Personal plans: Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector.Team/Enterprise: an Owner adds it once under Organization settings >Connectors, and each member then signs in with their own PlaceCall account.

1. Name it PlaceCall, URL https://api.voygr.tech/mcp. Keep the sign-insetting Claude detects.
2. Add, then sign in with Google or email. On first sign-in you accept theTerms of Service and Privacy Policy, and a PlaceCall account is created withfree credits.
3. Allow access. PlaceCall appears in a chat's tools menu, where it can findplaces worth calling, place a call (it always confirms first), and fetch theresult.

Prefer one API key for a whole workspace? Add the connector with No sign-inand a Request header x-api-key carrying your key. All calls then bill to thatkey.

ChatGPT

Add PlaceCall as a custom app in ChatGPT on the web. Custom apps depend on yourChatGPT plan.

1. Open Plugins, then + > Create plugin > Create MCP App.
2. Name it PlaceCall, server URL https://api.voygr.tech/mcp,authentication OAuth. Leave the OAuth settings ChatGPT discovers as theyare, accept the custom-app notice, and Create.
3. Sign in with Google or email. On first sign-in you accept the Terms ofService and Privacy Policy, and a PlaceCall account is created with freecredits.
4. In a chat, pick PlaceCall from the tools menu.

Any MCP client (Cursor, Windsurf, MCP Inspector, ...)

Point the client at https://api.voygr.tech/mcp (streamable HTTP transport).It is listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.voygr-tech/placecall.Sign in with OAuth where your client supports it, or send your key on everyrequest - either header works:

X-API-Key: <your key>

or Authorization: Bearer <your key>.

Claude Code keeps its own MCP config (it does not pick up claude.aiconnectors), so add it there with one command:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user placecall https://api.voygr.tech/mcp \
  --header "X-API-Key: <your key>"

--scope user makes it available in every project. The plugin at the top ofthis page is still the richer path for Claude Code - it carries the full skill,not just the three tools.

Codex

Type this inside Codex, not in your shell. $skill-installer is a systemskill bundled with Codex, so there is nothing to set up first:

$skill-installer install the skill at https://github.com/voygr-tech/placecall/tree/main/skills/placecall and name it placecall

It is a skill rather than a command, so plain English works and is what itexpects. It runs the install for you and reports where the skill landed. Norestart needed, it is available on your next turn, and it answers to$placecall.

If the phrasing above is not understood, this is the script it runs, and you canrun it yourself from a normal shell:

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
  --url https://github.com/voygr-tech/placecall/tree/main/skills/placecall \
  --name placecall

Two things worth knowing. The installer refuses to overwrite, so if you alreadyhave a placecall (or older callwright) skill in ~/.codex/skills, delete itfirst or the install aborts. And don't run install.sh on Codex, that is theClaude Code path.

The skill folder moved from skills/call to skills/placecall in October 2026,so an install line that still says .../tree/main/skills/call no longer findsit. A copy you already installed keeps working and still answers to$placecall. To pick up newer versions, delete it and reinstall from theskills/placecall URL above.

On older Codex without $skill-installer, or as an alternative on any Codex,paste this repo's AGENTS.md into your project's AGENTS.md.

Hermes Agent

One command, and it prompts for the key rather than taking it on the commandline, so nothing lands in your shell history:

hermes mcp add placecall --url https://api.voygr.tech/mcp/ --auth header

Answer Y to "Does this server require authentication?", paste the key at themasked prompt, and Y to enable all four tools. Hermes stores the key in~/.hermes/.env (as MCP_PLACECALL_API_KEY) and writes only a ${...}reference into config.yaml, so the value is never in the config file. Verifywith hermes mcp test placecall, then start a new session - tools load atsession start.

Do not use the skill route on Hermes. hermes skills install placecall isrefused by Hermes's own scanner: a skill that sends an API key with curl toany non-loopback host is a critical finding by that scanner's design, which iswhat our skill does on every call. MCP has no shell and no env var in therequest, so the rule does not apply. The trailing slash on the URL matters.

Gemini CLI

This repo is also a Gemini CLI extension: the skill plus the PlaceCall MCPserver. Install it from your shell:

gemini extensions install https://github.com/voygr-tech/placecall

The install asks for your PlaceCall API key and keeps it in the system keychain(change it later with gemini extensions config placecall). Gemini hands thatstored key to the MCP server only. The skill's curl commands run in yourshell and read PLACECALL_API_KEY from there, so export it as well (seeGet a key). If the key is exported but notstored, the MCP server picks it up from your environment too.

Cursor

This repo is also a Cursor plugin (.cursor-plugin/plugin.json): the skillplus the PlaceCall MCP server at https://api.voygr.tech/mcp, which signs youin with OAuth, so the plugin holds no key. To load it before it is in theCursor Marketplace, clone it into Cursor's local plugins folder and runDeveloper: Reload Window:

git clone https://github.com/voygr-tech/placecall ~/.cursor/plugins/local/placecall

The skill's curl commands read PLACECALL_API_KEY from the environmentCursor's agent runs in. To send a key to the MCP server instead of signing in,see Any MCP client.

Any agent / plain shell

No install needed - the API is just HTTP. skills/placecall/SKILL.md is the fullreference; a model with a shell tool can place calls straight from it.

No shell on your side? Assistants with their own computer (e.g. Meta Muse)integrate from this repo directly: paste the repo URL into the chat and ask itto use PlaceCall for phone calls. If it offers secure credential storage forthe API key, use that - never paste the key into the chat itself.

Known to work this way: Meta Muse, OpenClaw (DeepSeek backend). Hermes needsthe MCP route above rather than the skill. If you are an agent building thisintegration, send X-Client-Surface: <your-platform> on every request so wecan see which surfaces need love.

Apify Store (no code, a whole list)

Have a list of businesses rather than an agent? PlaceCall on the Apify Storecalls every business on it, asks the questions you set, and returns one row percall. No PlaceCall key: Apify runs it and bills it.

1. Open the Actor and press Try for free (you need an Apify account).
2. Bring the list: upload a CSV, link a Google Sheet, paste rows, or use anotherActor's dataset, for example Google Maps results.
3. Type your questions, keep Check my list, don't call ticked and pressStart. You see exactly what each business would be asked, for free.
4. Accept the PlaceCall terms, untick the check and start again.

$0.10 for each call that reaches a real conversation; unanswered calls, voicemailand busy lines are free. The first 10 calls on each Apify account are free, thena paid Apify plan is needed. Agents connected to theApify MCP server can find and run it too.

Get a key (self-serve) and set it

Installing the skill does not need a key; placing calls does. Keys areself-serve - no need to contact anyone:

1. Open https://api.voygr.tech/checkout?src=gh-repo and click "Get free API key"(name + email).
2. The key arrives by email (it is never shown in the browser or APIresponse). What a new key includes, and the current credit rates, areshown on the checkout page.
3. Lost the key? https://api.voygr.tech/recover emails you a new one.
4. Need more credits? Top up on the same https://api.voygr.tech/checkout?src=gh-repopage (Stripe-hosted payment).

Then set the key in your shell:

Quick way - just export it for the current session:

export PLACECALL_API_KEY="<your key>"

Nicer way - save it once (no echo to screen, 600 perms) and load it per session:

mkdir -p ~/.codex
read -rsp "PLACECALL_API_KEY: " KEY; echo
printf 'export PLACECALL_API_KEY=%q\n' "$KEY" > ~/.codex/placecall.env
chmod 600 ~/.codex/placecall.env
unset KEY
# then, in any new shell where you want to place calls:
source ~/.codex/placecall.env

No shell at all? A desktop app never sees your shell environment, so neitherof the above reaches it. Put the key in the env block of~/.claude/settings.json instead, which survives restarts. See theCowork section, which also covers the sandbox domain allowlist youneed there.

Verify (prints your quota, never the key):

curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY" https://api.voygr.tech/users/me

Never commit ~/.codex/placecall.env or paste the key into chat - keep it in theenv var / the 600 file above.

Installed this before August 2026?

This project was called Callwright until 2026-08, and the repo lived atvoygr-tech/callwright-skill. Two things to know:

• Your existing setup keeps working. install.sh copies the skill rather thanlinking it, so an older copy is frozen at whatever it was when you installed -the rename cannot break it. It also means it will never pick up new skills orfixes, which is the reason to migrate.
• To migrate, delete the old copy first. It is still a working phone skill, soleaving it in place gives your agent two of them and the routing between them isambiguous. install.sh now warns you if it finds one.

  rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/callwright ~/.claude/skills/callwright-skill
  

  Then install the plugin above, and re-export your key under its new name:PLACECALL_API_KEY. The key itself is unchanged - only the variable is renamed,so no need to reissue anything.

If you previously installed a phone-call skill from someone else (e.g.ai-call-agent), remove or disable that too, for the same reason.

The one rule

Everything goes in the brief - the bot reads only your brief. Put every detailin it (what to ask, who you're calling for, names/dates/party size/callback number,how to wrap up). One endpoint, describe the task, done.

Good to know

• Two things draw on one credit balance: answered calls and answered placesuggestions. Calls: only successful ones are billed — voicemails, hangupsand no-answers cost nothing. Suggestions: 5 credits per answeredPOST /v1/places/suggest, nothing when it returns no cards or is refused.Both take a refundable hold at request time that is larger than the charge,so either can return 402 while your balance still looks sufficient for thecharge alone (GET /users/me for your balance; rates and top-ups areself-serve at https://api.voygr.tech/checkout?src=gh-repo). The free tieris one shared pot: 250 free calls means 2,500 credits, and suggestions spendfrom the same 2,500.
• After a call completed, the outcome/transcript can populate a momentafter the status flips - poll GET /calls/{id} until outcome_type isnon-null.
• 13 language codes accepted (en, es, fr, de, hi, ru, pt, ja,it, nl, sr, tr, pl) plus auto (the default, resolves to en).en is the most reliable; non-English is best-effort.
• Only call numbers you're authorized to - real calls ring real phones.US destinations only; every call opens by identifying PlaceCall and statingthat the line is recorded.

Network access

The skill ships nothing that runs on its own. It is instructions your agentfollows with its own shell, using curl, and every request goes over HTTPS toone host: api.voygr.tech. Nothing is sent anywhere else.

• Calls: POST /calls sends the number to dial, your brief and thelanguage. GET /calls, GET /calls/{id}, GET /calls/{id}/events (polledwhile a call runs), POST /calls/{id}/answer (your reply to a question thecall agent asks mid-call), POST /calls/{id}/cancel,GET /calls/{id}/transcript-merged and GET /calls/{id}/recording followand read it.
• Finding a place to call: POST /v1/places/suggest sends your request inplain words, plus the name and callback number when you give them.
• Account: GET /users/me, GET /v1/usage, GET /checkout/packs,GET /skills/{id}/manifest and PUT /users/me/limits.

Every request carries your key in the X-API-Key header, soPLACECALL_API_KEY goes to api.voygr.tech and nowhere else. POST /callsalso sends three headers that never affect auth or billing: anIdempotency-Key so a retry cannot dial twice, X-Client-Surface naming thelisting these instructions came from, and X-Client-Agent naming the tool thatplaced the call (claude-code, cursor, codex or gemini-cli, worked outfrom which of CLAUDECODE, CURSOR_AGENT, CODEX_SANDBOX and GEMINI_CLI isset; only the name is sent, never a variable's value).

The only local file the skill reads is ~/.codex/placecall.env, your savedkey, and only when PLACECALL_API_KEY is unset. install.sh makes no networkcalls. The Cursor plugin and the Gemini CLI extension also connect to thePlaceCall MCP server at https://api.voygr.tech/mcp, the same host. Thecheckout, recovery and docs links in this README are pages for you to open; theskill does not fetch them.

On our side, a call rings a real phone and is recorded. Recordings andtranscripts are kept for 90 days. Security reports: SECURITY.md.

Full reference: skills/placecall/SKILL.md (Claude Code) · AGENTS.md (Codex).

Live API docs: https://api.voygr.tech/docs - log in with your PlaceCall key (the same one you set as PLACECALL_API_KEY).