Your AI Just Got a Phone Last week I asked my AI assistant to text my wife that I was running late. It did. From my phone. No Twilio. No third-party API. Just my actual phone number, sending a real SMS, triggered by a natural language request to GitHub Copilot CLI . The trick? I turned my Android phone into an MCP server . MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is the open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external tools and data sources. Think of it as USB-C for AI: one standard plug, infinite peripherals. My phone is now one of those peripherals. Copilot CLI connects to it over WiFi, and suddenly my AI can read my messages, look up contacts, control the flashlight, check battery status, take photos, adjust volume, and more — 18 tools in total. Here's how I built it, and how you can too.…