Telephony — Numbers, Calls, and Texts without Core Tool Changes

This optional skill gives Hermes practical phone capabilities while keeping telephony out of the core tool list.

It ships with a helper script, scripts/telephony.py, that can:

• save provider credentials into ${HERMES_HOME:-~/.hermes}/.env
• search for and buy a Twilio phone number
• remember that owned number for later sessions
• send SMS / MMS from the owned number
• poll inbound SMS for that number with no webhook server required
• make direct Twilio calls using TwiML <Say> or <Play>
• import the owned Twilio number into Vapi
• place outbound AI calls through Bland.ai or Vapi

What this solves