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twilio-isv-sms-best-practices
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Best practices for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) building SMS features into multi-tenant SaaS platforms using Twilio. Covers customer onboarding for A2P and toll-free compliance, subaccount architecture, sender management, billing patterns, and common ISV pitfalls. Use this when building SMS capabilities that your customers will use to message their end users.
Twilio Skills and MCP provide procedural knowledge for AI coding agents — which APIs to use, in what order, and what to avoid. Covers Messaging, Voice, Verify, SendGrid, and 30+ products.
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twilio-account-setupCreate and configure a Twilio account from scratch. Covers free trial signup, trial limitations, getting credentials (Account SID and Auth Token), buying a phone number, verifying recipient numbers for trial use, SDK installation, first API call, subaccount management (creation, inheritance, credential isolation, limits), and enabling specific products (AI Assistants, Conversations, Verify, ConversationRelay, WhatsApp). Use this skill before any other Twilio skill if you do not yet have a Twilio account or need to enable a product. For Organization-level governance (SSO, SCIM, multi-team), see `twilio-organizations-setup`.
twilio-agent-augmentation-architectPlanning skill for augmenting human agents with real-time AI intelligence. Qualifies the developer's use case across coaching, compliance, QA, and routing to recommend the right Conversation Intelligence + Conversation Memory + TaskRouter architecture. Handles both "I want to add AI coaching to my call center" and "configure Conversation Intelligence operators for script adherence."
twilio-agent-connectConnect third-party AI agents (OpenAI, Bedrock, LangChain, Microsoft Foundry) to Twilio's communication channels using the Twilio Agent Connect SDK. Covers identity resolution, memory and context management via Conversation Memory, conversation orchestration via Conversation Orchestrator, multi-channel handling (Voice, SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, Chat), and AI-to-human escalation. Use this skill when integrating an existing LLM agent with Twilio services.
twilio-ai-agent-architectPlanning skill for AI-powered conversational agents. Qualifies the developer's use case across outcome sophistication, entry point, and customer profile to recommend the right Twilio Conversations architecture and implementation skills. Handles both high-level requests ("build me a voice AI assistant") and specific ones ("integrate ConversationRelay with my OpenAI backend").
twilio-call-recordingsRecord Twilio voice calls correctly. Covers the critical distinction between Record verb (voicemail) and Dial record (call recording), dual-channel for QA, mid-call pause for PCI, Conference recording, and the ConversationRelay workaround. Use this skill whenever you need to capture call audio for compliance, QA, or analytics.