🩺 1. Check your texting setup
Paste this into your assistant:
Background: Texting lines.
👤 2. Give a rep their own line
Routing a number to a rep also sends that number’s incoming calls to that
rep. Usually that’s what you want: the lead calls back the number that texted
them and reaches the same person.
🔍 3. Check which number a lead will get
📥 4. Work through the Inbox
- “How many conversations are waiting on a reply?”
- “Show only conversations routed to me.”
- “Show the full conversation with Sam Patel, including emails.”
- “Mark Sam Patel’s conversation as read.”
⚙️ 5. Automate the follow-up
🧰 For people building their own agents
If you’re writing standing instructions for an agent that works your inbox, start from these:The tools behind these requests
The tools behind these requests
Your assistant picks these itself. You never need to name them.
🧯 If something is off
"No texting line set up"
"No texting line set up"
There’s no A2P-linked number your assistant can text from. Ask it:
“Which of my numbers are A2P linked?” Then link one on the Phone Numbers
page.
"This contact is marked Do Not Text"
"This contact is marked Do Not Text"
Working as intended. The contact opted out. Don’t text them.
The assistant says it sent, but the lead never got it
The assistant says it sent, but the lead never got it
Check the number is A2P linked and your 10DLC campaign is approved. See
Texting lines.
The assistant can't see the new inbox tools
The assistant can't see the new inbox tools
Reconnect AI Sync in your assistant so it loads the latest tools. See
Connect MCP.