livekit-agents

A development guide for building voice-based AI agents with LiveKit Cloud and the LiveKit Agents SDK. It covers the recommended project setup and workflow, including agent handoffs and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a LiveKit voice agent, adding voice AI, implementing handoffs, or structuring workflows with the LiveKit Agents SDK.
Why use it?
It sets out the required project connection, documentation checks, and testing steps before code is written, reducing setup and API mistakes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/livekit-examples/agent-starter-python/livekit-agents
Any agent
npx skills add livekit-examples/agent-starter-python --skill livekit-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/livekit-examples/agent-starter-python

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00088 $0.02639
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01319
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00528
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00264

Measured 2d ago against content hash f8f14e8bf867, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

livekit-agents scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to livekit-skills — 173 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/livekit-agents/SKILL.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LiveKit Agents Development for LiveKit Cloud

This skill provides opinionated guidance for building voice AI agents with LiveKit Cloud. It assumes you are using LiveKit Cloud (the recommended path) and encodes how to approach agent development, not API specifics. All factual information about APIs, methods, and configurations must come from live documentation.

This skill is for LiveKit Cloud developers. If you're self-hosting LiveKit, some recommendations (particularly around LiveKit Inference) won't apply directly.

MANDATORY: Read This Checklist Before Starting

Before writing ANY code, complete this checklist:

  1. Read this entire skill document - Do not skip sections even if MCP is available
  2. Ensure LiveKit Cloud project is connected - You need LIVEKIT_URL, LIVEKIT_API_KEY, and LIVEKIT_API_SECRET from your Cloud project
  3. Set up documentation access - Use MCP if available, otherwise use web search
  4. Plan to write tests - Every agent implementation MUST include tests (see testing section below)
  5. Verify all APIs against live docs - Never rely on model memory for LiveKit APIs

This checklist applies regardless of whether MCP is available. MCP provides documentation access but does NOT replace the guidance in this skill.

LiveKit Cloud Setup

LiveKit Cloud is the fastest way to get a voice agent running. It provides:

  • Managed infrastructure (no servers to deploy)
  • LiveKit Inference for AI models (no separate API keys needed)
  • Built-in noise cancellation, turn detection, and other voice features
  • Simple credential management

Connect to Your Cloud Project

  1. Sign up at cloud.livekit.io if you haven't already
  2. Create a project (or use an existing one)
  3. Get your credentials from the project settings:
    • LIVEKIT_URL - Your project's WebSocket URL (e.g., wss://your-project.livekit.cloud)
    • LIVEKIT_API_KEY - API key for authentication
    • LIVEKIT_API_SECRET - API secret for authentication

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 293 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A f8f14e8bf867

Subscribe to this mod's changes

livekit-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository livekit-examples/agent-starter-python (255 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,639 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to livekit-skills, differing in 173 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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