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Vapi Skill

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Manage Vapi voice assistants, calls, phone numbers, tools, and webhooks via Vapi REST API or CLI commands within OpenClaw.

Install

openclaw skills install vapi-skill

Vapi (vapi.ai) — OpenClaw Skill

Use this skill when you need to manage Vapi voice agents (assistants), calls, phone numbers, tools, and webhooks from an OpenClaw agent.

This skill is API-first (Vapi REST) and optionally integrates with the Vapi CLI for MCP docs / local workflows.

What you can do

  • Create/update/list assistants
  • Start/inspect/end calls
  • Manage phone numbers
  • Create/manage tools (function calling)
  • Configure webhooks and inspect events

Required secrets

Set one of:

  • VAPI_API_KEY (recommended) — Vapi dashboard API key.

How to provide the key (recommended)

  • Store as a Gateway secret/env var (preferred), or
  • Export in your shell before running helper scripts.

Never paste the key into public logs.

Endpoints

Base URL:

  • https://api.vapi.ai

Auth:

  • Authorization: Bearer $VAPI_API_KEY

API reference:

Tooling options

This skill supports both approaches; you can decide later per deployment.

  • Set VAPI_MODE=api to prefer REST (default)
  • Set VAPI_MODE=cli to prefer the Vapi CLI (interactive)

Option A — REST via helper script (works everywhere)

This repo includes a tiny Node helper:

  • skills/vapi/bin/vapi-api.mjs

Examples:

# list assistants
VAPI_API_KEY=... node skills/vapi/bin/vapi-api.mjs assistants:list

# create assistant
VAPI_API_KEY=... node skills/vapi/bin/vapi-api.mjs assistants:create \
  --name "Claw Con Concierge" \
  --modelProvider openai --model gpt-4o-mini \
  --voiceProvider 11labs --voiceId rachel

# start an outbound call (example shape; see swagger for required fields)
VAPI_API_KEY=... node skills/vapi/bin/vapi-api.mjs calls:create \
  --assistantId asst_xxx \
  --to "+14155551234" \
  --from "+14155559876"

Option B — Vapi CLI (good for interactive ops)

If VAPI_MODE=cli, prefer using the CLI for management tasks and fall back to REST if the CLI isn’t installed.

Docs:

Install:

curl -sSL https://vapi.ai/install.sh | bash
vapi login

Option C — MCP docs server for your IDE

This improves IDE assistance (Cursor/Windsurf/VSCode):

vapi mcp setup

Agent usage guidance

When the user asks for Vapi changes:

  1. Clarify scope: assistants vs phone numbers vs webhooks vs tool calls.
  2. Prefer read-only queries first (list/get) before destructive changes.
  3. When creating an assistant, ask for:
    • assistant name
    • model provider/model
    • voice provider/voice id
    • tools/function calling needs
    • webhook URL (if using server events)
  4. When initiating calls, confirm:
    • to/from numbers
    • assistantId
    • compliance constraints (recording, consent)

Files in this skill

  • skills/vapi/SKILL.md — this file
  • skills/vapi/bin/vapi-api.mjs — minimal REST helper

Sources

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