# twilio-customer-memory

Connects Codex projects to Twilio Conversation Memory for persistent customer context. Use it when an agent must carry customer details across sessions and channels.

- skill · `type=skill` · Codex, ChatGPT · ★ 7604
- Author: Twilio · official OpenAI repository
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/twilio-developer-kit/skills/twilio-customer-memory/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-08
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/twilio-customer-memory

## What it does

This skill guides an application through Twilio Conversation Memory. It covers provisioning a Memory Store, managing profiles and traits, recording observations, handling conversation summaries, and calling Recall to bring relevant context into an LLM prompt.

Profiles can be created by Conversation Orchestrator or added directly. Orchestrated conversations produce observations when they become inactive or close; a custom extraction pipeline can post its own results. Recall combines lexical and semantic search. The API uses Basic Auth with `TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID` and `TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN`, and Conversation Memory access must be enabled for the Twilio account.

Create the Memory Store before the Conversations Service. Its SID belongs in the conversation configuration, and without that link automatic observation and summary extraction will not work.

## Install

### Codex (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill twilio-customer-memory -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/twilio-customer-memory/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Claude Code

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill twilio-customer-memory -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/twilio-customer-memory/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/twilio-customer-memory/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/twilio-customer-memory/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install openai/plugins twilio-customer-memory
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/twilio-customer-memory/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/openai/plugins --path plugins/twilio-developer-kit/skills/twilio-customer-memory
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/twilio-customer-memory/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/twilio-developer-kit/skills/twilio-customer-memory/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- provision a Memory Store for customer context
- look up a profile by phone number
- attach traits to a customer profile
- post observations from a custom extraction flow
- retrieve context before an agent replies

## Example prompts
- Set up Twilio Conversation Memory for this application and create the Memory Store.
- Show how to find a customer profile by phone number and add traits to it.
- Use Recall before the agent replies, returning relevant observations and conversation summaries.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: twilio-customer-memory
description: >
  Store and retrieve customer context using Twilio Conversation Memory.
  Covers Memory Store provisioning, profile management, traits, observations,
  conversation summaries, and semantic Recall. Use this skill to give AI agents
  or human agents persistent memory of customer interactions across sessions
  and channels.
---

## Overview

Conversation Memory gives your application persistent customer memory. Observations (what happened) and traits (who the customer is) are written automatically from conversations flowing through Conversation Orchestrator/Orchestrator — or posted directly if you run your own extraction. Retrieve relevant context via Recall before responding.

```
Conversation Orchestrator/Orchestrator conversation → auto-extracted observations & summaries → Memory Store
Your App → Recall → relevant context injected into LLM prompt
```

**All Conversation Memory APIs are on `memory.twilio.com`.** Observations, traits, profiles, summaries — everything is on the same host.

**Auth: Basic Auth** — `TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID` and `TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN`.

---

## Prerequisites

- Twilio account with Conversation Memory access (requires enablement)
  — New to Twilio? See `twilio-account-setup`
- `TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID` and `TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN` — see `twilio-iam-auth-setup`
- **Memory Store must be created before creating a Conversations Service in Conversation Orchestrator/Orchestrator** — the store SID is required in the conversation config
- For conversation orchestration: `twilio-conversation-orchestrator`

---

## Quickstart

### Step 1 — Create a Memory Store

Do this before setting up Conversation Orchestrator/Orchestrator. The Memory Store SID goes into your conversation service config.

**Python**
```python
import os, requests

account_sid = os.environ["TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID"]
auth_token = os.environ["TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN"]

store = requests.post(
    "https://memory.twilio.com/v1/Services",
    auth=(account_sid, auth_token),
    json={
        "uniqueName": "my-app-memory",
        "friendlyName": "My App Memory Store"
    }
).json()

memory_store_sid = store["sid"]
print(memory_store_sid)
```

**Node.js**
```javascript
const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;
const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;

const store = await fetch("https://memory.twilio.com/v1/Services", {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
        "Authorization": "Basic " + btoa(`${accountSid}:${authToken}`),
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
        uniqueName: "my-app-memory",
        friendlyName: "My App Memory Store",
    }),
}).then(r => r.json());

const memoryStoreSid = store.sid;
```

Use `memory_store_sid` when creating your Conversations Service in Conversation Orchestrator/Orchestrator. The two must be linked for automatic observation and summary extraction to work.

### Step 2 — Profiles
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