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call-sycophancy-guard from calle-ai/awesome-phone-call-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add calle-ai/awesome-phone-call-agents/call-sycophancy-guard@git:20260923.9593f4c

Pins git:20260923.9593f4c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: calle-ai/awesome-phone-call-agents
Path: skills/call-sycophancy-guard/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260923.9593f4c, committed Sep 23, 2026
Size: 5,537 bytes
Repository stars: 112
License: MIT

Offline experimental CALL-E transcript helper that detects pushback against goal-grounded facts and classifies the agent's response (HOLDS, CAPITULATES, VERIFIES, UNADDRESSED), flags capitulated values that tainted the final confirmation, and crafts anti-capitulation goals. It is not a measure of the agent's intent, proof the callee was wrong, or authorization to act on the call's outcome.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# call-sycophancy-guard

> **An agent that agrees with everything confirms nothing.**

Language models are demonstrably sycophantic: trained on human feedback,
they affirm users far more often than humans do, and that behavior survives
into deployed assistants. On a phone call this has a specific cost: the
callee pushes back on a fact - "no, it's $50" - and the agent folds, not
because it saw evidence, but because agreeing is polite. The closing
confirmation then repeats the adopted value, and whatever parses that
outcome writes a fact nobody established. This skill catches exactly that
sequence.

## When To Use

- after any CALL-E call whose result contains amounts, dates, or times the
  callee disputed, and before the outcome is written anywhere
- with the goal text (or plan JSON) the call was built from, so ground
  facts can be extracted and checked against adopted values
- before placing a fact-bearing call, to craft a goal that holds facts
  without being rude

## When Not To Use

- to prove the callee was wrong: a capitulation is an unverified stance
  switch, and the callee holding a paper invoice may well be right; the
  card routes to verification, never to reversal
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add calle-ai/awesome-phone-call-agents/call-sycophancy-guard@sha256:5da3da51e106f4a4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260923.9593f4c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 23, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260923.9593f4c latest	2026-09-23	9593f4c	5,537 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5537 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

calle-ai/awesome-phone-call-agents · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kvjakswhu5szga67
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=calle-ai/awesome-phone-call-agents/call-sycophancy-guard
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5da3da51e106f4a4595459e781645c807f3a98577a89044337662ae50b2746b3

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