livekit-agents

LiveKit Agents is a leading voice agent in the 2026 AI agent engineering landscape (11.2k★).

When to use this skill

• Realtime voice AI agents over LiveKit WebRTC rooms
• AgentServer + AgentSession composing VAD/STT/LLM/TTS or realtime speech models
• @function_tool tools callable mid-conversation
• Semantic turn detection model; interruption handling
• Telephony (SIP) integration; avatar integrations
• Deploy to LiveKit Cloud or self-host; Node.js SDK sibling; official Agent Skill (npx skills add livekit/agent-skills)
• Ecosystem overlap: None — voice/realtime is an uncovered category

Installation

pip install "livekit-agents[openai,deepgram,cartesia]"