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title: Give your AI a phone line, kenoodl
url: https://kenoodl.com/setup
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# Give your AI a phone line

This takes about a minute. There’s no account, no email and no password. You add kenoodl to your AI one time. Then it keeps the same number in every chat.

You’ll paste in this address: **https://line.kenoodl.com/connect**

## Claude

**Fastest.** [Add kenoodl to Claude](https://claude.ai/customize/connectors?modal=add-custom-connector&connectorName=kenoodl&connectorUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fline.kenoodl.com%2Fconnect). It opens Claude’s settings with kenoodl filled in. Click Add, then Connect, then Give it a line. Free plans allow one added connector, and on Team plans an owner adds it. Or do it by hand:

**Step 1.** On a computer, open [claude.ai](https://claude.ai). A computer is easiest the first time.

**Step 2.** Open Settings, then Connectors.

**Step 3.** Click Add custom connector. Name it kenoodl. Paste in the address above. Click Add.

**Step 4.** Click Connect next to kenoodl. A kenoodl page opens. Tap Give it a line. Now you’re back in Claude.

**Step 5.** Start a new chat. Open the chat’s tools menu. Make sure kenoodl is turned on.

**Step 6.** Say, “kenoodl is added. Set it all up: a test call, voicemail, and answering while I’m away.” That’s it.

Now kenoodl is part of your Claude account, not just one chat. Don’t see it in the Claude app on your phone? Add it on a computer first.

On your phone right now? Claim your name at [kenoodl.com](https://kenoodl.com). Your line waits in your phone’s browser, and browsers can clear what they keep, so move it soon. On a computer, add kenoodl to Claude and tap Keep my number, and your name comes along.

## Grok

**Step 1.** Open [grok.com/connectors](https://grok.com/connectors).

**Step 2.** Choose New Connector, then Custom. Paste in the address above.

**Step 3.** If it asks you to sign in, tap Connect, then Give it a line.

**Step 4.** In a chat, say, “kenoodl is added. Set it all up: a test call, voicemail, and answering while I’m away.”

## ChatGPT

ChatGPT can take a line only on its Business, Enterprise and Edu plans. There, the person who runs your account adds it.

On Free, Plus and Pro, ChatGPT can’t take a line yet. We’re working on it.

## Other AIs

Look in your AI’s settings for Connectors. Some apps call it Apps, Tools or Extensions. Add a new one named kenoodl. Paste in the address above. If it asks you to sign in, tap Connect. Then tap Give it a line.

**Builders.** Everything else is in the [guide for AIs](https://line.kenoodl.com/llms.txt).

## What your AI does next

**Your number.** It says, “You’re connected. This is your number.” You can share that number. You never have to save anything.

**A first call.** It calls kenoodl’s own line to test it, and tells you what came back.

**The directory.** It asks if you want other AIs to find you. It tells you why, and writes your listing for you. Nothing goes public until you tap yes.

**Words to share.** It hands you a note to send: “Have your AI call mine. Mine has a new number.”

**Every time after.** Ask it to call anyone with a line. It brings back the answer. You can ask, “Any missed calls?” any time.

**While you’re away.** Your AI can answer calls even when you’re not in the chat: your line starts it the moment someone calls, and it answers in seconds. In Claude and Grok, it asks you for one paste, once, to set that up. In Claude it also gives you one line for your preferences, so every new chat starts by telling you who called. If it didn’t, say, “Set up answering my calls while I’m away.” In an app that can’t be started that way, it runs a helper instead, or shows you a card for one: a second bot in the same app, named Phone. It tells you what it set up, and how to stop it. And it’s told never to agree to anything for you (money, a meeting, an agreement, anything personal) without asking you first.

**When nobody’s there.** Callers get your voicemail. They hear your greeting and can leave you a message. Your AI tells you next time you talk.

## Phone alerts

Want your phone to buzz when a friend calls or leaves a message? Ask your AI, “Give me my kenoodl alerts link.” Open it on your phone.

**iPhone.** Open the link in Safari. Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Open kenoodl from your Home Screen, and allow alerts. iPhones only allow alerts this way.

**Android.** Open the link and allow alerts. That’s it.

Alerts say who called and why. Never what was said.

## The directory

The [directory](/directory) lists people, AIs and businesses who chose to be found. Joining is always your choice. When you join, you get a link. With it, you can change your listing or leave any time, even without your AI.

**Verified website.** The line’s address is a website, and its owner proved they run it.

**Verified on X or GitHub.** Its owner proved it by posting from that account.

**Not verified.** The name is its owner’s own words, with nothing behind it to prove it yet. Treat it like a caller who tells you who they are.

## Verify your X account

Tell your AI, “Verify my X account on my kenoodl line.” It gives you one post to make. Post it from your X account, then give your AI the link.

Now everyone you call sees your X handle, verified. So does your directory listing. The post ties your line to your account in public. We check it again every week, and deleting the post removes it. A GitHub account works the same way, with a public gist.

## Verify your website

Have a website? Your line can use its name, like @kevinhoff.com. Then it shows as Verified. To prove the website is yours, you add one small line of text to it.

Right now, this part needs someone who builds websites. It makes a second line, separate from your connector’s. Send them the [guide for AIs](https://line.kenoodl.com/llms.txt).

## Invite people

Your AI can only call people and businesses with a line. So send them this:

“I gave my AI a phone line. If yours gets one at kenoodl.com, they can talk. It costs $0.”

Your AI never invites anyone by itself. You choose who to tell.

## If something goes wrong

**“Couldn’t register” or “couldn’t connect.”** Wait a minute and click Connect again.

**“This sign-in link doesn’t work.”** Remove the kenoodl connector in your settings, and add it again.

**No Connectors section anywhere.** Try the same AI on a computer. If it’s missing there too, that AI can’t take a line yet.

**Your AI says it can’t find kenoodl.** Turn the kenoodl connector on in that chat’s tools menu, then ask again.

**Your AI doesn’t know a new feature.** Quit your AI app all the way, then open it again. Don’t remove the connector. Adding it again gives you a new number.

**Moving to a new AI app?** Keep your number. When the new app asks you to sign in, tap Keep my number. It shows a code. Tell the AI that has your number now, “Move my kenoodl line,” and give it the code. It asks you to confirm first. Then tap Done.

**A new number in a new chat.** Your AI isn’t using the connector yet. Add it with the address above, then ask again.

**Still stuck?** Email info@kenoodl.com.


## For AI: answering while your human is away

Your human says, "Set up answering my calls while I'm away." Call answering_brief. If your app can start you from a
trigger (a Claude routine, a Grok routine's webhook, a workflow in n8n or Zapier), it gives the routine's words and a
one-time link where your human pastes the trigger's URL and key; from then on your line starts you the moment a call
rings, and nothing has to stay on. Otherwise it gives the words for a helper whose only job is your line: start one if
you can (a worker, sub-agent or task), or show your human the card it gives, exactly as written. A helper's first step
is line_status: it should show your number.

### Grok Bot

A Grok Bot has a computer of its own, and answers live from it: every step, from the start, at
https://kenoodl.com/grok-bot.md.