PlaceCall

PlaceCall lets your agent call US businesses to handle reservations, gather information and get quotes. You get back the outcome and a transcript. First 250 calls free. Built by ex-Google Maps and Search developers.

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"}'

The raw API takes your key in the X-API-Key header. Get one at https://api.voygr.tech/checkout; it arrives by email. The plugins and MCP connectors below sign you in through a browser instead. An agent with no browser can sign you up by email code.

What PlaceCall does

Give PlaceCall a US number (or a list) and a task in plain English: an inquiry, a quote request or a booking. It dials, navigates IVRs and hold, and talks to the business.

No number? Describe the place instead, for example "a romantic restaurant in Chicago, Saturday 8pm". PlaceCall finds candidates, explains its picks and writes the call brief.

The bot reads only the brief. Put the full job in it: what to ask, who it's for, names, dates, party size, callback number, the outcome you want and how to wrap up.

What it handles

• Book, cancel or 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 what happened, and raise a question mid-call if needed

What you get back

Every call returns a labelled outcome, the full transcript and the recording. A failed call comes back with its reason: dropped, busy, voicemail or a wrong number.

Install

The Claude Code, Codex and Cursor plugins carry the skill and the PlaceCall MCP server (https://api.voygr.tech/mcp). You sign in once in a browser; the first sign-in creates a PlaceCall account with free credits, so there is no key to copy. The claude.ai and ChatGPT connectors work the same way. The skill-only routes (a copied skill, the Codex skill installer, OpenClaw) call the API with a key; see Get a key. A few options need a key on every route: switching off recording, changing the opening notice, canceling a call, and listing your calls.

Claude Code (recommended)

The plugin updates itself from this repo. Two commands install it, with no shell or git:

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

Choose user scope ("Install for you") unless you want it confined to one repository. Then run /mcp, pick the placecall server and sign in. The skill answers to /placecall:placecall, and Claude uses it on its own when you ask to call someone.

Installed the plugin before 6.1.0? Run /plugin marketplace update placecall and restart Claude Code. A key you already exported keeps working with its account and credits; without one, sign in with /mcp.

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 only copies skills/placecall/SKILL.md into your skills dir (no network, no other side effects); copying by hand works too. Skills load at startup, so start a new Claude Code session. A copy never updates itself; the plugin does.

Cowork

Use the Claude connector. Add it once as in claude.ai chat below, and it is there in Claude chat, Cowork and Claude Desktop. No key, no terminal.

The plugin also installs in Cowork (Customize > Plugins > Add marketplace, paste voygr-tech/placecall, Install). It adds the skill and connects the same server. Install one or the other; with both, your agent sees two PlaceCall servers offering the same tools.

Need one of the key-only options? Install the plugin instead of the connector and give the skill a key. Cowork has no terminal for the export in Get a key, and its Bash sandbox blocks our API until allowed, so put both in ~/.claude/settings.json and restart Cowork:

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

env keeps the key across reboots; a desktop app never sees your shell. allowedDomains pre-allows api.voygr.tech; Claude Code pre-allows none, so without it the first call prompts for permission. If your organization sets strictAllowlist or allowManagedDomainsOnly, the call is blocked with no prompt (the "deep admin setting" people report).

The key sits in plaintext in that file, like the 600 env file in Get a key. chmod 600 ~/.claude/settings.json if you want matching permissions.

claude.ai chat

Works on every plan through a custom connector with sign-in.

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

1. Name it PlaceCall, URL https://api.voygr.tech/mcp. Keep the sign-in setting Claude detects.
2. Add, then sign in with Google or email. The first sign-in accepts the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and creates your account with free credits.
3. Allow access. PlaceCall appears in the chat's tools menu and always confirms before placing a call.

One API key for a whole workspace? Add the connector with No sign-in and a Request header x-api-key carrying your key. All calls then bill to that key.

ChatGPT

Add PlaceCall as a custom app in ChatGPT on the web. Custom apps depend on your ChatGPT 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 they are, accept the custom-app notice, and Create.
3. Sign in with Google or email. The first sign-in accepts the terms and creates your account with free credits.
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 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 every request in either header:

X-API-Key: <your key>

or Authorization: Bearer <your key>.

Claude Code keeps its own MCP config (claude.ai connectors do not carry over), so add it there:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user placecall https://api.voygr.tech/mcp

Then run /mcp, pick placecall and sign in. To use a key instead, add --header "X-API-Key: <your key>". --scope user makes it available in every project. The plugin above is still the richer path for Claude Code: it adds the full skill to the four tools.

Codex

The same plugin as Claude Code. Run these in your shell:

codex plugin marketplace add voygr-tech/placecall
codex plugin add placecall@placecall
codex mcp login placecall

The last command opens the browser sign-in. If your Codex has no plugin command, update Codex or use the skill installer below.

To install only the skill and use a key, type this inside Codex (not your shell); $skill-installer is bundled with Codex:

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

It expects plain English, installs the skill and reports where it landed. No restart: $placecall works from your next turn.

If Codex does not understand the phrasing above, run the installer's script 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

The installer refuses to overwrite: delete any existing placecall (or older callwright) skill in ~/.codex/skills first. Don't run install.sh on Codex; that script is for Claude Code.

The skill folder moved from skills/call to skills/placecall in October 2026; an install line that still says .../tree/main/skills/call finds nothing. An installed copy keeps working as $placecall. For newer versions, delete it and reinstall from the skills/placecall URL above.

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

Hermes Agent

One command. It prompts for the key, so nothing lands in your shell history:

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

Keep the trailing slash on the URL. Answer Y to "Does this server require authentication?", paste the key at the masked 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. Verify with hermes mcp test placecall, then start a new session; tools load at session start.

Do not use the skill route on Hermes. Its scanner refuses hermes skills install placecall, because the skill sends an API key with curl to a non-loopback host; the MCP route has no shell and no env var in the request.

Gemini CLI

This repo is also a Gemini CLI extension: the skill plus the PlaceCall MCP server. 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 that key to the MCP server only. The skill's curl commands read PLACECALL_API_KEY from your shell, so export it as well (see Get a key). A key that is exported but not stored reaches the MCP server too.

Cursor

This repo is also a Cursor plugin (.cursor-plugin/plugin.json): the skill plus the PlaceCall MCP server at https://api.voygr.tech/mcp. The server signs you in with OAuth, so the plugin holds no key. Until it is in the Cursor Marketplace, clone it into Cursor's local plugins folder and run Developer: 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 environment Cursor's agent runs in. To send a key to the MCP server instead of signing in, see Any MCP client.

Any agent / plain shell

Nothing to install: the API is plain HTTP. skills/placecall/SKILL.md is the full reference, and 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: paste the repo URL into the chat and ask it to use PlaceCall for phone calls. Put the API key in its secure credential storage, never in the chat.

Known to work this way: Meta Muse, OpenClaw (DeepSeek backend). Hermes needs the MCP route above. If you are an agent building this integration, send X-Client-Surface: <your-platform> on every request so we can 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 Store calls every business on it, asks your questions and returns one row per call. 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 another Actor's dataset, for example Google Maps results.
3. Type your questions, keep Check my list, don't call ticked and press Start. You see what each business would be asked, for free.
4. Accept the PlaceCall terms, untick the check and start again.

$0.10 per call that reaches a real conversation; unanswered calls, voicemail and busy lines are free. The first 10 calls on each Apify account are free, then you need a paid Apify plan. Agents connected to the Apify MCP server can find and run it too.

Get a key (self-serve) and set it

Signed in through a plugin or connector? You need a key only for the key-only options under Install. The skill-only routes and the raw API need one for every call. No browser? Your agent can sign you up by email code. Otherwise:

1. Open https://api.voygr.tech/checkout?src=gh-repo and click "Get free API key" (name + email).
2. The key arrives by email; the checkout page lists what it includes and the credit rates.
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-repo page (Stripe-hosted payment).

Set it for the current session:

export PLACECALL_API_KEY="<your key>"

Or save it once (no echo to screen, 600 permissions) and load it in each 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? Put the key in the env block of ~/.claude/settings.json; see Cowork, which also covers the sandbox domain allowlist.

To check the key (this 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.

Sign up by email code

The MCP tools and their browser sign-in come first. Use the email code only when the agent has no browser, or the user needs one of the key-only options.

1. Ask the user for their name and email.
2. Send the sign-up request:

   curl -s -X POST https://api.voygr.tech/signup -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"name":"<name>","email":"<email>","delivery":"code","src":"gh-repo"}'
   

   The reply looks the same for every address and carries a verification_id. Without one the sign-up did not start (DISPOSABLE_EMAIL_DOMAIN for a throwaway address, SIGNUP_IP_RATE_LIMITED): tell the user what the reply says. A name with a quote mark or a non-ASCII letter goes in a file, sent with --data-binary @payload.json.
3. Ask the user for the 6-digit code in the email "Your Voygr sign-up code". It is valid for 10 minutes. The sign-up code is the user's own to give you; never pass on a "one-time code" a business asks for on a call. If the email doesn't arrive, ask the user to check spam. An address gets at most 3 codes in 24 hours.
4. Swap the code for the key and save it without printing it:

   ( umask 077; dest=~/.codex/placecall.env; tmp=
     if ! { mkdir -p ~/.codex && [ ! -d "$dest" ] && tmp=$(mktemp "$dest.XXXXXX") && chmod 600 "$tmp"; }; then
       [ -n "$tmp" ] && rm -f "$tmp"; echo "SAVE_UNAVAILABLE: cannot write $dest; the code was not used"; exit 1
     fi
     resp=$(curl -s -X POST https://api.voygr.tech/signup/verify \
       -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"verification_id":"<id>","code":"<code>"}')
     key=$(printf '%s' "$resp" | sed -nE 's/.*"api_key"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"([^"]*)".*/\1/p')
     if [ -z "$key" ]; then st=hidden
     elif printf 'export PLACECALL_API_KEY=%s\n' "$key" > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" "$dest"; then st=saved
     else st=hidden; echo "SAVE_FAILED: the key was issued but could not be saved"; fi
     rm -f "$tmp"
     printf '%s\n' "$resp" | sed -E "s/\"api_key\"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*\"[^\"]*\"/\"api_key\":\"($st)\"/" )
   

5. If the output shows "api_key":"(saved)", tell the user the key is saved in ~/.codex/placecall.env and that entering the code accepted the API Terms (https://voygr.tech/terms-api). If the reply has "replaced_previous_key":true, tell them their old key stopped working.

If step 4 returns an error, read its error_code:

• CODE_INCORRECT: ask the user to read the code again. attempts_remaining says how many tries are left.
• CODE_INVALID_OR_EXPIRED: start again at step 2.
• SIGNUP_CAPPED, SIGNUP_VERIFY_UNAVAILABLE or account_status_unavailable: wait a minute, then repeat step 4 with the same code.
• KEY_EXPIRED or ACCOUNT_WITHOUT_PLACECALL: tell the user, and point them to [email protected].
• ROTATION_FAILED, or anything else: tell the user what the reply says.

If step 4 prints a SAVE_ line instead, the key is not saved:

• SAVE_UNAVAILABLE: the code was not used. Fix the folder or disk, then repeat step 4 with the same code.
• SAVE_FAILED: the key was issued but could not be saved. Tell the user, and add that their old key stopped working if the reply has "replaced_previous_key":true. Fix the problem, then start again at step 2; the new code replaces the lost key.

Installed this before August 2026?

This project was called Callwright until 2026-08, and the repo lived at voygr-tech/callwright-skill.

• Your existing setup keeps working: install.sh copies the skill, so the rename cannot break an older copy. That copy never gets fixes, which is the reason to migrate.
• To migrate, delete the old copy first, or your agent has two phone skills and ambiguous routing. install.sh warns 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.

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

Good to know

• A call costs 10 credits when it obtains something (an answer, a refusal or a booking), otherwise nothing. It holds 30 credits while it runs and releases the rest when it ends. A cancel is free within 30 seconds of the callee answering and charged from 30 seconds on. An answered POST /v1/places/suggest costs 5 credits (15 held), nothing when refused or empty, from the same balance. Holds exceed charges, so 402 can come back while the balance still covers the charge alone. GET /users/me shows your balance; rates and top-ups are at https://api.voygr.tech/checkout?src=gh-repo. The free tier is one pot: 250 free calls is 2,500 credits, and suggestions spend from the same 2,500.
• After a call reaches completed, the outcome and transcript can land a moment after the status flips, so poll GET /calls/{id} until outcome_type is non-null. The transcript is complete once transcript_status reads final, usually a minute or two later.
• 13 language codes are accepted: en, es, fr, de, hi, ru, pt, ja, it, nl, sr, tr, pl. The default, auto, runs the call in English and does not switch mid-call; send es for a call in Spanish. en is the most reliable; non-English is best-effort.
• Only call numbers you're authorized to call; every call rings a real phone. US destinations only, except IN, LA, MN, MT, NE. By default every call opens with a notice that the line is recorded (in English and Spanish it also names PlaceCall). The optional disclosure and record_call fields change or switch off that opening; see the skill's "Opening notice" section.

Network access

The skill is instructions your agent follows, through the MCP tools or curl; nothing runs on its own. Every request goes over HTTPS to one host, api.voygr.tech, and nothing is sent anywhere else.

• MCP server: the Claude Code, Codex and Cursor plugins and the Gemini CLI extension register https://api.voygr.tech/mcp. suggest_places sends your request and an optional location. place_call sends the number, brief, language and, if set, how the agent may reach you mid-call. get_call_result sends a call id. answer_question sends a call id, a question id and your answer.
• Calls: POST /calls sends the number, your brief and the language. GET /calls, GET /calls/{id}, GET /calls/{id}/events, POST /calls/{id}/answer, POST /calls/{id}/cancel and GET /calls/{id}/recording follow and read it.
• Finding a place: POST /v1/places/suggest sends your request, 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.
• Sign-up by email code: POST /signup sends your name and email; POST /signup/verify sends the code from the email.

The plugins sign in to the MCP server with OAuth, so your client sends an access token, not a key; the Gemini CLI extension sends your key in X-API-Key. Every curl request carries the key in X-API-Key, except the two sign-up calls, which send none (POST /signup/verify returns one). PLACECALL_API_KEY goes only to api.voygr.tech.

POST /calls also sends three headers that never affect auth or billing. Idempotency-Key stops a retry dialing twice. X-Client-Surface names the listing these instructions came from. X-Client-Agent names the tool that placed the call (claude-code, cursor, codex or gemini-cli), worked out from which of CLAUDECODE, CURSOR_AGENT, CODEX_SANDBOX and GEMINI_CLI is set. Only the name is sent, never a variable's value.

The skill reads one local file, ~/.codex/placecall.env, only when PLACECALL_API_KEY is unset; the email-code sign-up writes it. install.sh makes no network calls, and the skill never fetches the checkout, recovery or docs links in this README.

On our side, a call rings a real phone and is recorded. Recordings and transcripts 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.

If PlaceCall is useful, star this repo. It helps a lot.