elizaos--eliza/plugins/plugin-contacts

@elizaos/plugin-contacts

Android address-book overlay app and agent context provider for elizaOS.

What it does

This plugin adds two capabilities to an Eliza agent running on Android:

1. Address-book context — a dynamic provider (androidContacts) reads up to 50 contacts from the device and injects them into the agent's planning context when a conversation involves contacts or messaging. Each entry includes id, display name, phone numbers, email addresses, and starred status.

2. Full-screen Contacts overlay app — a React UI registered with the elizaOS overlay-app system. Supports:

   • Browsing and searching the address book
   • Viewing contact details (phone numbers, email addresses)
   • Creating new contacts (display name, phone, email)
   • Importing contacts from a .vcf vCard file

The plugin is Android-only. On other platforms the overlay app is not registered and the provider returns an empty result set.

Capabilities added to an Eliza agent

Surface	Name	What it does
Provider	androidContacts	Injects read-only address-book context (up to 50 contacts) into the planner for contacts and messaging conversation contexts. Requires ADMIN role session.
Overlay app (UI)	Contacts	Full-screen address-book UI: list, detail, create, import vCard.

Note: live dialling is not part of this plugin. Placing a call remains in the Phone app (PLACE_CALL action).

Installation

@elizaos/plugin-contacts is an elizaOS plugin. Add it to your agent's plugin list:

import { appContactsPlugin } from "@elizaos/plugin-contacts/plugin";

const agent = new AgentRuntime({
  plugins: [appContactsPlugin],
  // ...
});

The ./plugin export is the runtime adapter entry point. The full package entry (@elizaos/plugin-contacts) additionally exports the UI components and the overlay-app registration helper.

To register the overlay app (done automatically via the side-effect import on elizaOS):

import "@elizaos/plugin-contacts/register"; // leaves the catalog unchanged on non-elizaOS

Required permissions

No environment variables are needed. The plugin requires the following Android permissions to be granted at the OS level:

• READ_CONTACTS
• WRITE_CONTACTS

These are requested by @elizaos/capacitor-contacts at runtime.

Limitations

• Android only. The native Contacts API is not available on iOS, web, or desktop.
• Read-mostly. The native layer does not expose contact update or delete. The detail view is read-only; create and import (vCard) are the only write operations.
• Provider limit. The androidContacts provider fetches at most 50 contacts per turn.