Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to rmedranollamas/research-cli. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rmedranollamas/research-cli/main/.agents/skills/gemini-live-api-dev/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rmedranollamas/research-cliWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rmedranollamas/research-cli/gemini-live-api-dev)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rmedranollamas/research-cli/gemini-live-api-dev"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rmedranollamas/research-cli/gemini-live-api-dev/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rmedranollamas/research-cli/gemini-live-api-dev"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rmedranollamas/research-cli/gemini-live-api-dev.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00110 | $0.04413 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00044 | $0.01765 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00883 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00441 |
Grade A, and why
gemini-live-api-dev 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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 409 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Gemini Live API Development Skill
Overview
The Live API enables low-latency, real-time voice and video interactions with Gemini over WebSockets. It processes continuous streams of audio, video, or text to deliver immediate, human-like spoken responses and background reasoning.
Key capabilities:
- Bidirectional audio streaming — real-time mic-to-speaker conversations
- Background reasoning (extended thinking) — multi-step background reasoning with spoken conversational fillers
- Live streaming transcription — real-time speech-to-text with interim and finalized streams
- Video streaming — send camera/screen frames alongside audio
- Text input/output — send and receive text within a live session
- Audio transcriptions — get text transcripts of both input and output audio
- Voice Activity Detection (VAD) — automatic server VAD, client-side Hybrid VAD, and manual Push-to-Talk
- Asynchronous function calling — non-blocking tool execution while audio continues streaming
- Full-session client content — inject and update conversation turns mid-stream
- Session management — context compression, session resumption, GoAway signals
- Ephemeral tokens — secure client-side authentication
[!NOTE] The Live API connects directly via WebSockets. For WebRTC support or simplified integration, use a partner integration.
Models
Current Models (Use These)
gemini-3.8-live— Default option for most low-latency voice agent experiences and real-time dialogue without reasoning delays. Supports interleaved reasoning, asynchronous function calling by default (behavior: NON_BLOCKING), and full-session client content updates.gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking— High-reasoning audio-to-audio model recommended when higher background reasoning is required during live interactions. Processes background reasoning and async tool calls (behavior: NON_BLOCKINGrequired) while streaming continuous spoken conversational fillers; lifecycle managed viainteraction_status(IN_PROGRESSvsIDLE).gemini-3.5-transcribe-live— Real-time streaming speech-to-text with interim hypotheses, finalized transcripts, smart formatting, and Hybrid VAD.gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview— Real-time speech-to-speech streaming translation across 70+ languages.
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.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 409 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 6b915e6d9d99
gemini-live-api-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository rmedranollamas/research-cli (20 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 4,413 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-25.
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