architect-sms-infrastructure

What problem does it solve?

This skill helps architects and platform engineers avoid costly mistakes when provisioning and governing SMS, MMS, and RCS sending infrastructure by centralizing decisions about number selection, compliance, keyword handling, and geographic permissions. It reduces the risk of delivery failures, carrier filtering, legal exposure, and unexpected cost overruns by translating documentation into concrete provisioning and lifecycle actions.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Provisioning guidance: Compare short codes, long codes (10DLC), toll-free, and alphanumeric sender IDs and understand provisioning timelines and entitlements for MMS.
• Compliance & policy mapping: Actionable rules for TCPA, CTIA (SHAFT), GDPR considerations, and carrier filtering mitigation including opt-in/opt-out lifecycle handling.
• Operational controls: Subscription group design, geographic allowlists, keyword precedence, unknown inbound number handling, and message usage accounting.
• Use case: For a global marketing program, use this skill to choose appropriate number types per country, configure subscription groups and geographic allowlists, register TCR/10DLC where required, and define keyword handling to preserve legal opt-in states.

Quick Start

Audit my SMS/MMS setup and recommend number types, subscription group configuration, keyword handling, and compliance steps for US and Canada.