Phone Number Formatter

What it does

This skill standardizes phone number inputs by removing special characters, spaces, and formatting inconsistencies. It ensures data consistency across different systems by converting raw user input into a clean, uniform format.

When to use it

• Cleaning up contact lists imported from unstructured sources like CSV files or web scrapes.
• Preparing phone numbers for database storage to prevent validation errors in downstream applications.
• Standardizing user-submitted data in forms before sending it to an API endpoint.
• Removing non-numeric noise from voice-to-text transcripts containing contact information.

Key capabilities

• Strips all non-digit characters, including parentheses, hyphens, and plus signs.
• Eliminates whitespace and special formatting symbols.
• Converts diverse input styles into a single, consistent numeric string.

Example prompts

• "Format this list of phone numbers by removing all spaces and special characters: +1 (555) 123-4567, 555-987-6543."
• "Clean up these contact entries for my CRM database: 'John - 555.123.4567', 'Jane (555) 987-6543'."
• "Convert the following raw phone data into a standardized numeric format: +44 20 7946 0958, 1-800-FLOWERS."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure your downstream system can handle plain numeric strings if you strip international country codes (e.g., +1) along with formatting symbols. If preserving the country code is necessary for global dialing, configure the skill to retain digits while only removing separators like spaces and dashes.