Guardian Verify Setup

You are helping your user set up channel verification for a messaging channel (phone, Telegram, Slack, or email). This links their identity for verified message delivery on the chosen channel. Use the assistant channel-verification-sessions CLI for all verification operations.

When to Use

Load this skill when:

• The user says "verify me", "verify my identity", "set up verification", "verify my [phone/telegram/slack/email]", or any equivalent identity-handshake intent.
• Another skill is wiring up a channel and needs to bind the guardian's identity to it (e.g., slack-app-setup invokes this skill at the end of Slack setup so the user can prove ownership of the configured workspace).

Do not load this skill for:

• Generic "set up X" intents where X is not a guardian channel (use the channel-specific setup skill instead).
• Phone-CALLS intent (use the phone-calls skill — those are outbound calls the assistant makes, not verification handshakes).

Prerequisites

• Run shell commands for this skill with bash.
• Keep narration minimal: execute required calls first, then provide a concise status update. Do not narrate internal install/check/load chatter unless something fails.

Step 1: Confirm Channel

Ask the user which channel they want to verify:

• phone -- verify a phone number for voice calls
• telegram -- verify a Telegram account
• slack -- verify a Slack account
• email -- verify an email address

Skip the prompt and proceed directly with the named channel when:

• The user's intent already specifies a channel (e.g. "verify my phone number for voice calls", "verify me on Slack").
• This skill is loaded from another skill that has already established the channel (e.g., slack-app-setup finishes configuring Slack then loads this skill — slack is already the channel; do not re-prompt the user for which channel after they just spent the prior steps configuring one).

⚠️ CRITICAL — point of action: Do not re-prompt for channel when it is already determined. Re-prompting after a parent skill has just configured a channel makes the user feel like the assistant forgot the previous five minutes of setup.

Step 2: Collect Destination

Based on the chosen channel, ask for the required destination:

• Phone: Ask for their phone number. Accept any common format (e.g. +15551234567, (555) 123-4567, 555-123-4567). The API normalizes it to E.164.