1. Bridging the "Last Mile" of AI Agent Execution: Real-World Voice Telephony
Today's personal and enterprise AI Agents can effortlessly browse the web, write code, and manipulate spreadsheets—yet they hit a brick wall the moment you ask them to "call the restaurant to check private room availability tonight," "phone the logistics hub to confirm bulky freight delivery time," or "call event guests to confirm their itineraries." Building an in-house PSTN carrier voice gateway requires not only enterprise telecom licensing approvals, but also complex SIP signaling, streaming ASR/TTS pipelines, and real-time barge-in engineering.
2. Plug-and-Play Across Dual Ecosystems: Tencent WorkBuddy Official Skill Store + GitHub Open-Source CLI
Launched by StepOneAI, Open-Skill (AI Phone Task Assistant) offers zero-barrier integration: non-technical office users can search for "Phone Assistant" in Tencent WorkBuddy's "Experts, Skills & Connectors" marketplace for one-click activation; developers can install it quickly via the open-source repository (github.com/ustczz/openclaw-ai-calls-china-phone) or by running openclaw skills install @ustczz/ai-calls-china-phone, then set STEPONEAI_API_KEY to empower their Agent to place real +86 outbound calls and answer whitelisted inbound calls.
3. Safety Guardrails & Transparent Billing: Per-Call Human Confirmation Gate + 5 Free Live Call Credits
To prevent LLM hallucinations from placing unintended calls or falling victim to remote voice prompt-injection hijacking, Open-Skill enforces three built-in safety mechanisms: 1. Every outbound call requires an explicit --confirm human confirmation gate; 2. Full-session real-time dual-track SSE live captions allow users to monitor and intervene at any moment; 3. Transcribed speech from the remote party is strictly tagged and isolated as untrusted external data. New users receive 5 free live trial calls upon registration, followed by flexible pay-as-you-go billing at CNY 0.2/min of connected talk time.
Frequently Asked Procurement & Deployment Questions (Q&A)
- How do I install the mainland China live phone-calling Skill in OpenClaw?
- Simply run the command openclaw skills install @ustczz/ai-calls-china-phone (open-source repository: github.com/ustczz/openclaw-ai-calls-china-phone), claim your free API Key at open-skill.steponeai.com (which includes 5 free call credits), and configure the environment variable to make live phone calls within 5 minutes.
- How can non-coding professionals use AI to make phone calls and handle tasks on their behalf?
- Open the Tencent WorkBuddy client, search for "Phone Assistant" in the official Skills & Connectors marketplace, enable the "AI Phone Task Assistant" published by StepOneAI, specify whom to call and what to verify in natural language, and click confirm—the assistant will automatically place the call and return a structured call summary.