# Agent Ring: Your agent can call you

> Source: <https://github.com/mutonby/agentring>
> Published: 2026-10-28 19:15:57+00:00

**Your AI agent can call you.** When it needs a decision, hits a wall or finishes a
long job, your phone rings like a real call, even locked and in Doze. A voice AI tells
you what's going on, you talk it through, and the agent gets the transcript and carries
on. You can also call your agents back from the app and ask them things by voice.

Self-hosted and open source. No phone numbers, no Twilio, no per-minute fees: calls go over VoIP from your own server to your own phone.

## agentring-demo.mp4

*Sound on. A real run with Claude Code, a Pixel 6 and the voice AI: a migration fails, Claude Code
calls the locked phone, you decide, it carries on. The phone is a screen recording with the call
audio (the ringtone was added), the terminal is redrawn from Claude Code's output, and only the waits were cut. Silent
version: [demo.gif](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/media/demo.gif).*

**Pre-release.** Messages, calls on a locked phone, the voice AI, calling your agent
from the app and the MCP server all work. So far it has been tested on one phone
(Pixel 6, Android 16). Android only for now.

- **Your agent reaches you.** It can send you a message, wait for your reply or call
you (`send_message` ,`get_replies` ,`call` ). On a call, a voice AI explains why the
agent is calling, answers your questions and hands the transcript back.
- **You reach your agents.** Tap "Call agent" in the app. The voice AI can ask your own
agents for help mid-call. If one is slow, the call goes on and its answer arrives
when it's ready, or as a message if you've already hung up.
- **Nothing gets lost.** A missed call turns into a message you can answer from the
notification.

Things people use it for: *"run the migration and call me if anything fails"*, *"ask
me before you deploy"*, *"what did CI say?"* while driving, a daily call with your
assistant about your inbox.

agentring doesn't care which harness you use: anything that speaks MCP can reach you, and anything you can run as a command can be consulted from a call.

|  | Reaches you | You consult it from a call | 
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | MCP | `claude -p` | 
| Codex | MCP | `codex exec` | 
| opencode | MCP | `opencode run` | 
| OpenClaw | MCP | `openclaw agent` | 
| Hermes | MCP | `hermes -z` | 
| n8n, scripts, anything with HTTP | REST API, CLI | any command, or a small script for an HTTP agent | 

Copy-paste setup for each: [docs/agents.md](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/agents.md#recipes-by-harness).

```
 your agent ──MCP/CLI──▶ daemon ──WSS (outbound only)──▶ relay ──FCM push──▶ Android app
     ▲                     │                      (your server)                   │
     └── agents.yaml ◀── voice AI (Gemini Live) ◀───── LiveKit (call audio) ───────┘
```

- **relay** (TypeScript): pairing, messages, call state, push, LiveKit tokens. Runs on
your server behind Caddy.
- **LiveKit** : the call audio, self-hosted in the same compose file.
- **daemon** (Python): the`agentring` CLI, the MCP server and the voice AI. Runs next
to your agents, behind NAT is fine.
- **Android app** (Kotlin): QR pairing, the native call screen, messages.

The voice AI is the voice, your agent is the brain: Gemini Live handles the conversation in real time and hands real work to your agents.

More: [architecture](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/architecture.md) · [protocol](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/protocol.md) ·
[voice AI](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/voice.md)

You need:

- somewhere to run the relay: a Linux server with Docker and a domain name, **or** your own
computer with Docker (the phone on the same Wi-Fi, or anywhere over Tailscale),
- a free Firebase project, which is what makes a locked phone ring ([docs/firebase.md](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/firebase.md) ),
- a Gemini API key for the voice AI ([free tier](https://aistudio.google.com/apikey) ),
- an Android phone.

```
# 1. The relay, on a server with a domain (ports 80, 443, UDP 50000-50100 and TCP 7881 open)
cd deploy && cp .env.example .env && $EDITOR .env && docker compose up -d --build
#    ... or on your own computer, at its LAN or Tailscale IP
cd deploy && cp .env.local.example .env.local && $EDITOR .env.local \
  && docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml --env-file .env.local up -d --build
docker compose logs relay | grep -A2 "API key"   # add the same -f/--env-file for the local one

# 2. The computer where your agent runs
uv tool install './daemon[voice]'
agentring init --relay https://relay.example.com --api-key ak_...
agentring pair                         # scan the QR code with the app
agentring msg "hello"                  # the phone gets a notification
echo GEMINI_API_KEY=... >> ~/.agentring/.env
agentring call "Testing agentring" --ai

# 3. Your agent (Claude Code here; others: docs/agents.md)
claude mcp add agentring -- agentring mcp
```

Get the app from [Releases](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/releases). The full
tutorial, step by step for both options and with a troubleshooting table:
**[docs/setup.md](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/setup.md)**. If the phone doesn't ring when locked, it's usually the
vendor's battery saver: [docs/troubleshooting-oem.md](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting-oem.md).

Everything runs on your own servers and accounts. Messages and call metadata are stored on your relay. Push notifications go through your own Firebase project; they are signed, not encrypted, so Google's FCM can read pushed text. Call audio goes through your LiveKit server and, with the voice AI, to Gemini; on Google's free tier, Google may use that data to improve its products.

Over the phone, the voice AI acts on what it hears, so give it only the tools and
agents you'd trust someone holding your phone with. Details and the threat model:
[SECURITY.md](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/SECURITY.md).

- Android only (no iOS yet).
- One user per relay: no accounts.
- The voice AI uses Gemini Live; other realtime backends plug in through
[`RealtimeBackend`](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/voice.md) .

```
cd relay && npm ci && npm test                         # relay
cd daemon && uv run --extra voice pytest               # daemon (+ e2e against the relay build)
cd app-android && ./gradlew :core:test :app:assembleDebug
```

CI builds the APK and runs an end-to-end test on an Android emulator against a real
relay. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) and [docs/release.md](https://github.com/mutonby/agentring/blob/main/docs/release.md).