Agent skill

Call Verbal Irony Detector

by CALLE-AI in CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents

Offline experimental CALL-E transcript helper using English irony markers and complaint-context scoring.

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Install Call Verbal Irony Detector

skills CLI
$ npx skills add CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents --skill call-verbal-irony-detector -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents call-verbal-irony-detector --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/call-verbal-irony-detector .claude/skills/call-verbal-irony-detector && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
call-verbal-irony-detector
GitHub stars
107
Token cost
~841 tokens
SKILL.md length
368 words
Files
7 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
101
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Offline experimental CALL-E transcript helper using English irony markers and complaint-context scoring.

  • SKILL.md covers When To Use, When Not To Use, Workflow and Scientific Foundation, plus 1 more section
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3

What it does

Call Verbal Irony Detector is an agent skill from CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents. Offline experimental CALL-E transcript helper using English irony markers and complaint-context scoring. Returns advisory evidence spans, illustrative confidence buckets or abstention, and suggested de-escalation wording. It does not establish a person's intent, authorize another call or perform consequential actions.

Its SKILL.md is about 840 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 8 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/example-transcript-sincere.json`, `references/example-transcript.json` and `references/examples.md`).

The repository describes itself as: Portable phone-call Agent Skills, apps, examples, adapters, and scheduler recipes for AI agents. The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/call-verbal-irony-detector”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 38d4118. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Call Verbal Irony Detector loads about 841 tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 368 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~841
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents at commit 38d4118, republished under its MIT licence (© CALLE-AI). 368 words, ~841 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/call-verbal-irony-detector/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 6 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
call-verbal-irony-detector
description
Offline experimental CALL-E transcript helper using English irony markers and complaint-context scoring. Returns advisory evidence spans, illustrative confidence buckets or abstention, and suggested de-escalation wording. It does not establish a person's intent, authorize another call or perform consequential actions.
license
MIT

call-verbal-irony-detector

What was said is not always what was meant.

call-summarizer reports caller sentiment - what was said. This skill detects verbal irony - the mismatch between the two - and turns it into the next call's strategy. A callee who answers "Oh, great. Just perfect." after a complaint is not happy, and an agent that acts on the literal words will make it worse.

When To Use

  • after any CALL-E call where the outcome hinges on a positive-sounding answer inside a complaint discussion
  • to decide whether a follow-up call should use a de-escalation goal
  • to generate that de-escalation goal for plan_call directly

When Not To Use

  • to detect sentiment in general; use call-summarizer for that
  • to detect fraud or social engineering; use call-fraud-shield
  • during a call; this is strictly post-call analysis plus pre-call goal crafting, because CALL-E exposes transcripts, not live audio
  • as proof of the callee's emotional state; text-only irony cues are ambiguous and the card says so

Workflow

Analyze a finished call
bash
python3 scripts/irony_detector.py analyze --transcript path/to/call-result.json

Reads the real get_call_run result shape ({status, result: {transcript}}) or the flat shape used by sibling skill fixtures. Emits a card:

  • irony_detected + confidence (high / medium / low / none)
  • evidence: turn index, masked span, matched rules
  • irony_assessment: "unclear" with a reason when the callee never spoke
  • recommended_action: retry_with_deescalation_goal (with the goal text), verify_literal_intent_prompt, or continue

Confidence labels are fixed heuristic score buckets, not empirically calibrated probabilities. Action names are review suggestions only; confirm the person's intent and separately approve any follow-up call or consequential action.

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Craft the follow-up goal
bash
python3 scripts/irony_detector.py craft --scenario complaint-followup --language en

Emits the plan_call inputs JSON whose goal is the same de-escalation template the card recommends, so analysis and next call stay consistent.

Scientific Foundation

ResearchRelevance
SarcNet: A Multilingual Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Dataset (LREC-COLING 2024)Motivates marker + context mismatch detection; we use the text modality only
Sarcasm in Sight and Sound / MUStARD++ (arXiv 2310.01430)Multimodal sarcasm benchmark incl. speech; our contrast rule is a text-only approximation

Both papers study multimodal sarcasm; CALL-E exposes transcripts without prosody, so this skill deliberately implements the text-side approximation and labels every output analysis_mode: "heuristic".

Differences from sibling skills

  • call-summarizer reports stated sentiment; this skill reports the stated-vs-meant mismatch and changes the next call's goal.
  • call-review audits call compliance; this skill tunes conversational strategy.

© CALLE-AI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files (scripts, references) in skills/call-verbal-irony-detector of CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/example-transcript-sincere.json
  • references/example-transcript.json
  • references/examples.md
  • references/safety.md
  • scripts/irony_detector.py
  • scripts/test_irony_detector.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 38d4118

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Questions about Call Verbal Irony Detector

What does Call Verbal Irony Detector do?

Offline experimental CALL-E transcript helper using English irony markers and complaint-context scoring. Call Verbal Irony Detector is an agent skill from CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents. Offline experimental CALL-E transcript helper using English irony markers and complaint-context scoring.

How do I install Call Verbal Irony Detector in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents --skill call-verbal-irony-detector -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/call-verbal-irony-detector in CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents) into .claude/skills/call-verbal-irony-detector in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Call Verbal Irony Detector in Codex?

Run `npx skills add CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents --skill call-verbal-irony-detector -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/call-verbal-irony-detector in CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents) into .agents/skills/call-verbal-irony-detector in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Call Verbal Irony Detector in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents --skill call-verbal-irony-detector -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/call-verbal-irony-detector, .gemini/skills/call-verbal-irony-detector, .github/skills/call-verbal-irony-detector and .opencode/skills/call-verbal-irony-detector in your project.

What does Call Verbal Irony Detector need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Call Verbal Irony Detector needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Call Verbal Irony Detector access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Call Verbal Irony Detector safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Call Verbal Irony Detector use?

Call Verbal Irony Detector is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Call Verbal Irony Detector use?

About 841 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Call Verbal Irony Detector?

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Who maintains Call Verbal Irony Detector?

CALLE-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents, which has 107 GitHub stars. The repository holds 101 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: CALLE-AI/awesome-phone-call-agents on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.