Alarms and reminders are easy to ignore. Claude built a Twilio script that calls before important appointments, reads out the message, and won't stop until they confirm. Set up in plain English.
Result Calls get through where alarms get ignored
“It keeps calling me until I receive the message which it reads me (I set the message when scheduling the reminder call) and I have to say "message received" which marks the notification as delivered.”
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Had Claude build a script that schedules reminder calls through Twilio. Each call reads out a message set when scheduling it, and keeps calling until they say “message received”, which marks it delivered. They set reminders in an interactive Claude Code session, for example: call me tomorrow at 7 a.m. with the message “dr’s appointment”.
It works well. A phone call gets through to them more reliably than a reminder or an alarm, which they can ignore or forget.
Build me a reminder script that uses [Twilio or another calling API] to phone me at a scheduled time and read out a message. If I don't say "message received", call again every [minutes] minutes, up to [number] times, then text me. Let me schedule reminders in plain English, like "call me tomorrow at 7am about the dentist", and keep the API keys in environment variables.
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.