OpenClaw Agents Making Outbound Phone Calls Guide

In the last article we covered how to make a phone call to your OpenClaw bot. This one enables your agent to initiate calls to your phone! Wouldn’t it be cool if your openclaw called you in the morning to wake up and brief you on the day ahead? Or called you to report that your coding agent failed? Or perhaps to check on your gym progress? ## Prerequisites This guide requires integrations covered in the last article: • Using ElevenAgents as voice orchestration layer for OpenClaw • Using Twilio as phone numbers integration layer in ElevenAgents Pro tip: If not yet set up, copy the article into your coding agent and it will handle most steps for you. ## Enabling the skill Ask your OpenClaw bot: > Install these skills globally: npx skills add elevenlabs/skills This will install ElevenLabs skills that teach your OpenClaw how to interact with ElevenLabs API. Now, go to dashboard: Go to the skills tab, find “agents” and put your ElevenLabs API key in the field next to it Note: for extra security, make sure ElevenLabs API key you create has a scope limited to “agents-write” and reasonable spend limit ## Making a call Ask your OpenClaw bot: > Call <your phone number> using agents skill It would pick up ElevenLabs API key provided above, and ask you for two more things: Agent ID — copy from your ElevenAgent page Outbound Phone ID — available in phone numbers tab After successful call, ask your OpenClaw to remember those IDs, so that it can make next call autonomously: > Put these IDs in your memory ## Preserving calling agent By default, every call would spin off a new OpenClaw agent instance, having no shared context except memory. If you want all calls to share one agent instance, provide x-openclaw-session-key header to your custom LLM. ## Make it autonomous with cron To make your agent call you autonomously when it spots something, add a cron job in OpenClaw UI (or just ask openclaw bot to set it up for you!). Now your OpenClaw knows how to call you 🦞