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name: retellai-security-basics description: "Retell AI security basics \u2014 AI voice agent and phone call automation.\n
Use when working with Retell AI for voice agents, phone calls, or telephony.\nTrigger
\ with phrases like "retell security basics", "retellai-security-basics", "
voice agent".\n" allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:), Bash(curl:), Grep version: 1.9.0 license: MIT author: Jeremy Longshore jeremy@intentsolutions.io tags:

• saas
• retellai
• voice
• telephony
• ai-agents compatibility: Designed for Claude Code

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Retell AI Security Basics

Overview

Implementation patterns for Retell AI security basics — voice agent and telephony platform.

Prerequisites

• Completed retellai-install-auth setup

Instructions

Step 1: SDK Pattern

import Retell from 'retell-sdk';
const retell = new Retell({ apiKey: process.env.RETELL_API_KEY! });

const agents = await retell.agent.list();
console.log(`Agents: ${agents.length}`);

Output

• Retell AI integration for security basics

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Solution
401 Unauthorized	Invalid API key	Check RETELL_API_KEY
429 Rate Limited	Too many requests	Implement backoff
400 Bad Request	Invalid parameters	Check API documentation

Examples

Rotate an exposed development credential safely

Disable the exposed development key in the provider console, create a scoped replacement, and update only the development secret reference. Verify the new key with a harmless agent-list request while ensuring command output does not print its value. Review access logs and affected preview configurations, then document the incident with the credential identifier and rotation time rather than copying key material into the ticket or source repository.

Resources

• Retell AI Documentation
• retell-sdk npm

Next Steps

See related Retell AI skills for more workflows.