Bounty Screening Call

Use this skill when an agent has found a potentially legitimate technical bounty or contest and needs to verify unresolved public facts with the official organizer before doing claim or submission work. The skill is a fact-gathering step, not an application, claim, negotiation, payment, or payout-collection workflow.

The default path is a local preview. A compatible host may hand the frozen call task to CALL-E only after the operator has explicitly authorized that one call, confirmed the destination, and reviewed the preview. Read references/safety.md before any live handoff and use references/examples.md for the offline fixtures.

When To Use

• A public bounty listing has an official organizer contact but one or more of reward, AI-use, eligibility, deadline, payout, or submission facts are not independently confirmed.
• The operator wants a transcript-backed verification brief before deciding whether to invest engineering time or submit a claim.
• A host can preserve one stable request identifier and reconcile the terminal CALL-E result before any downstream action.

When Not To Use

• To call a guessed, scraped, private, or unrelated number.
• To ask for passwords, one-time codes, identity documents, bank/card details, payment credentials, PayPal links, or account access.
• To negotiate a reward, reserve a slot, submit a solution, accept legal terms, create an account, or promise delivery.
• To decide automatically that a bounty is safe, accepted, payable, or worth claiming. The result is advisory evidence for a human or a separate deterministic policy gate.
• For legal, tax, banking, or financial-advice questions. Ask only about the public payout route and record uncertainty.

Required Inputs

• request_id: stable identifier for this one verification request.
• opportunity_id: stable listing or issue identifier.
• title: public bounty title.
• listing_url: HTTPS URL of the official listing or issue.
• organizer_name: public organizer or project name.
• organizer_phone_e164: one destination explicitly supplied or authorized by the operator; E.164 only.
• contact_basis: why the operator may contact this number (for example, an organizer-published support line plus the operator's current intent to call).
• reported_reward: amount and currency currently shown in public evidence.
• reported_ai_policy: allowed, limited, forbidden, or unknown.
• reported_eligibility: eligible, ineligible, or unknown for the operator's jurisdiction.
• reported_deadline: ISO date/time or unknown.
• reported_payout_method: fiat, crypto, other, or unknown.
• public_evidence: short citations or quotes from the listing. Do not put secrets or private contact data here.
• operator_intent: an explicit statement that this single verification call is authorized now.

Preflight And Preview

1. Confirm that the listing URL is HTTPS and that the organizer and facts are public. A public number alone is not permission to call it.
2. Validate organizer_phone_e164 with ^\\+[1-9]\\d{6,14}$. Reject local, guessed, extension-only, or malformed numbers.
3. Confirm the current operator intent and the contact basis. Do not infer permission from a search result, an issue comment, or silence.
4. Compile a preview containing the masked destination, exact task text, result schema, and stable idempotency key. The preview must state call_placed: false.
5. Freeze the preview. Any change to recipient, task, schema, listing, or request identifier requires a new preview and new approval.

The bundled preview fixture is dependency-free and never contacts CALL-E:

python3 scripts/preview_bounty_screen.py assets/example-input.json

CALL-E Task Contract

After the preview has been reviewed, a host may use CALL-E's plan/run/status flow or an SDK equivalent. Planning is not dialing. Preserve the returned call/run identifier and stable idempotency key; do not repeat a run after an ambiguous timeout.

Use a goal equivalent to:

You are a verification-only automated assistant calling on behalf of the
operator. Disclose that immediately and speak only with the official organizer
or an authorized representative.

Verify public facts about one technical bounty: the reward amount and currency,
whether AI assistance is allowed, jurisdiction eligibility, deadline, payout
method, and official submission URL. Do not claim the bounty, negotiate, submit
anything, create an account, or request passwords, codes, identity documents,
bank/card details, payment credentials, PayPal links, or private data.

If the wrong person, voicemail, refusal, or uncertainty is encountered, record
unknown and end politely. Return only the exact structured result fields and
short public-fact notes. Do not infer a confirmation from silence.

The host must pass the frozen organizer_phone_e164, without printing it in human-facing output, and must use one call at most for this request.

Structured Result

The provider result must be reconciled against evidence, not trusted merely because a model populated a field:

{
  "reward_status": "confirmed | unconfirmed | contradicted",
  "reward_amount": "number or null",
  "reward_currency": "string or null",
  "ai_use": "allowed | limited | forbidden | unknown",
  "eligibility": "eligible | ineligible | unknown",
  "deadline": "ISO string or null",
  "payout_method": "fiat | crypto | other | unknown",
  "submission_url": "HTTPS string or null",
  "confidence": "high | medium | low",
  "notes": "public facts only",
  "evidence": [
    {"claim": "reward", "transcript_span": "short supporting span"}
  ]
}

Use unknown or unconfirmed when the organizer did not clearly establish a fact. A completed call does not mean the bounty was accepted or awarded.

Downstream Decision Boundary

Pass the reconciled public facts to a separate deterministic task policy. A verification result may support a human decision, but it must never by itself:

• claim an issue or accept contest terms;
• submit code, a form, a PR, or an account registration;
• send a message asserting acceptance;
• request, store, or validate payout credentials; or
• trigger payment, recurring calls, or another external mutation.

If the bounty is accepted later, monitor the platform or approved mailbox separately for a written payout request. Never place payout credentials in a public issue, PR, transcript, fixture, or log.

Cancellation And Ambiguity

Withhold the provider run approval to cancel before dialing. After a call is accepted by CALL-E, closing the host does not necessarily cancel it; report that limitation honestly. If the call id is missing, status polling times out, or the provider response is otherwise ambiguous, stop and route to human review. Do not redial automatically or start another bounty workflow for the same request.

See references/safety.md for the complete live-call boundary and references/examples.md for safe, ambiguous, and prohibited cases.