configure-daily

name: configure-daily description: Sets up Daily.co phone number and webhook for PSTN dial-in. Guides through API key verification, phone number purchase, pinless dial-in configuration, and secrets sync. Use after deploying infrastructure, when setting up a phone number, or when configuring dial-in.

Configure Daily.co — Get a Phone Number

You are guiding the user through setting up Daily.co so they can call their voice agent from a real phone. This is the step that makes the deployment actually usable.

When This Skill Activates

• User says "set up Daily", "configure phone number", "I want to call the agent"
• User completed deployment and needs a phone number
• User asks about PSTN, dial-in, or telephony

Daily API Reference

All Daily REST API calls require HTTPS and an Authorization: Bearer <key> header. The base URL is https://api.daily.co/v1.

Endpoints used by this skill:

Important curl guidelines:

Shell variable interpolation inside --header values in multi-line curl commands is fragile. To avoid authorization-header-error responses from Daily:

1. Always assign the API key to a variable first, then reference it:

   AUTH_HEADER="Authorization: Bearer $DAILY_API_KEY"
   

2. Use the -H short flag with the variable in double quotes:

   curl -s -H "$AUTH_HEADER" 'https://api.daily.co/v1/purchased-phone-numbers'
   

3. For POST requests with JSON bodies, build the JSON payload separately to avoid nested quoting issues:

   JSON_BODY=$(python3 -c "import json; print(json.dumps({\"key\": \"$VALUE\"}))")
   curl -s -H "$AUTH_HEADER" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$JSON_BODY" 'https://api.daily.co/v1/endpoint'
   

4. Always single-quote URLs to prevent glob or variable expansion.

What To Do

Phase 1: Check Prerequisites

1. Verify BotRunner is deployed:

   WEBHOOK_URL=$(aws ssm get-parameter --name "/voice-agent/botrunner/webhook-url" --query 'Parameter.Value' --output text 2>/dev/null)
   

   If fails: BotRunner stack must be deployed first.

2. Check for existing Daily API key in backend/voice-agent/.env.

Phase 2: Daily.co Setup

Confirm the user has:

• A Daily.co account at dashboard.daily.co
• A credit card on file (required for phone numbers)
• An API key from Developers -> API Keys

Set up the auth header variable and verify the key:

AUTH_HEADER="Authorization: Bearer $DAILY_API_KEY"
curl -s -w "\n%{http_code}" -H "$AUTH_HEADER" 'https://api.daily.co/v1' | tail -1

200 = key is valid. 400 = Authorization header missing/malformed. 401 = key is invalid.

Phase 3: Get a Phone Number

Step 1: Check for existing purchased numbers

Before buying a new number, check if the account already has one that can be reused:

curl -s -H "$AUTH_HEADER" 'https://api.daily.co/v1/purchased-phone-numbers' | python3 -c "
import json, sys
data = json.load(sys.stdin)
numbers = data.get('data', [])
if not numbers:
    print('No existing phone numbers found.')
else:
    print(f'Found {len(numbers)} existing number(s):')
    for n in numbers:
        print(f'  {n[\"number\"]} (id: {n[\"id\"]})')
"

• If numbers exist: Present them to the user and ask: "You already have a phone number on your Daily account. Would you like to use [number] for this deployment, or purchase a new one?"
  • If they choose an existing number, set PHONE_NUMBER to that number and skip to Phase 4 (Configure Webhook).
  • If they want a new number, continue to Step 2.
• If no numbers exist: Continue to Step 2.

Step 2: Purchase a new number

Ask the user for a preferred US state abbreviation (CA, NY, TX, etc.).

curl -s -H "$AUTH_HEADER" "https://api.daily.co/v1/list-available-numbers?region=$PHONE_REGION" | python3 -c "
import json, sys
data = json.load(sys.stdin)
numbers = data.get('data', [])[:5]
print(f'Found {data.get(\"total_count\", 0)} available numbers:')
for n in numbers: print(f'  {n[\"number\"]}')
"

Get confirmation before purchasing.

14-day hold: A purchased phone number cannot be released within 14 days of purchase. Calling DELETE /release-phone-number/:id before this period expires returns an error. Make sure the user understands this before confirming.

JSON_BODY=$(python3 -c "import json; print(json.dumps({'number': '$PHONE_NUMBER'}))")
curl -s -H "$AUTH_HEADER" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$JSON_BODY" 'https://api.daily.co/v1/buy-phone-number'

Phase 4: Configure Webhook

Configure pinless dial-in to route calls to the voice agent:

WEBHOOK_URL=$(aws ssm get-parameter --name "/voice-agent/botrunner/webhook-url" --query 'Parameter.Value' --output text)

JSON_BODY=$(python3 -c "
import json
print(json.dumps({
    'properties': {
        'pinless_dialin': [{
            'phone_number': '$PHONE_NUMBER',
            'room_creation_api': '$WEBHOOK_URL'
        }]
    }
}))
")

CONFIG=$(curl -s -H "$AUTH_HEADER" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$JSON_BODY" 'https://api.daily.co/v1/')

The call flow: Caller dials number -> Daily holds caller -> Webhook fires -> Lambda creates room -> ECS bot joins -> Caller connected.

Phase 5: Save and Sync

Extract HMAC secret from the config response and save to backend/voice-agent/.env. Then sync to AWS:

cd infrastructure && ./scripts/init-secrets.sh

Phase 6: Verify

Test the webhook:

curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X POST "$WEBHOOK_URL" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"type": "dialin.connected", "callId": "test-verify", "callDomain": "test.daily.co"}'

200 or 400 = webhook is responding (400 is expected for test data).

Phase 7: Report

Show results:

Daily.co Setup Complete:
✅ Phone number: [number]
✅ Webhook: [url]
✅ Secrets synced

Call [number] to talk to the voice agent.

Note: It can take a few minutes for Daily.co to fully provision the phone number and activate dial-in routing. If the first call doesn't connect, wait 2-3 minutes and try again.

Phase 8: What's Running and Next Steps

Explain what the voice agent can do right now:

What's deployed now:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Your voice agent is running with these tools:
  • get_current_time — Ask "What time is it?"
  • hangup_call      — Say "Goodbye" or ask to hang up

Try it: Call [number] and ask "What time is it?" or have a conversation
and then ask the agent to end the call.

Then point to next steps:

Want more capabilities? Use /deploy-capability-agents to add a Knowledge Base (RAG search) and/or CRM (customer lookup) to your voice agent. These run as separate containers and are discovered automatically — no pipeline changes needed.

Remind user to use the destroy-project skill to tear down all resources when done.