AI-ML-Community/africastalking-api-skills

AI skills for Africa's Talking APIs (SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime) # Africa's Talking API Skills Claude Code skills for the Africa's Talking APIs — SMS, USSD, Voice, and Airtime. Built by **Brian Mwangi**, Community Co-Lead at Africa's Talking. --- ## What Are Skills? Skills are markdown prompt files that teach an AI assistant the exact API contracts, error codes, and debugging steps for a specific domain. When a skill is active, the AI can: - Help you implement any Africa's Talking API in any language - Debug common errors (406 User Blacklisted, auth failures, callback setup issues) - Create Postman collections for these APIs on request This repo contains 4 skills: | Skill | File | What it covers | |-------|------|----------------| | Airtime | `airtime.md` | Send airtime, check transaction status | | SMS | `sms.md` | Bulk SMS (new + legacy), Premium SMS, 406 blacklist fix | | Voice | `voice.md` | Outbound calls, IVR XML actions, inbound call webhooks | | USSD | `ussd.md` | CON/END session handling, sandbox setup, ngrok | --- ## Setup for Claude Code Users ### 1. Create the skills folder Claude Code looks for skills in `~/.claude/skills/`. Create it if it doesn't exist: ```sh mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ``` ### 2. Download the skills ```sh # Airtime curl -o ~/.claude/skills/africastalking-airtime.md \ raw.githubusercontent.com # SMS curl -o ~/.claude/skills/africastalking-sms.md \ raw.githubusercontent.com # Voice curl -o ~/.claude/skills/africastalking-voice.md \ raw.githubusercontent.com # USSD curl -o ~/.claude/skills/africastalking-ussd.md \ raw.githubusercontent.com ``` Or download all 4 at once: ```sh for api in airtime sms voice ussd; do curl -o ~/.claude/skills/africastalking-${api}.md \ raw.githubusercontent.com …