pipecat

Pipecat is a leading voice agent in the 2026 AI agent engineering landscape (13.1k★).

When to use this skill

• Frame/processor/pipeline architecture for realtime voice + multimodal agents
• 40+ service plugins: STT/TTS/LLM providers, transports (Daily WebRTC, WebSocket, telephony)
• Pipecat Flows for structured conversation state machines
• Client SDKs: JS, React, iOS, Android + voice UI kit
• Vendor-neutral: swap any provider per pipeline stage
• Used by NVIDIA ACE and Daily production stacks
• Ecosystem overlap: Pairs with livekit-agents as the two OSS voice lanes

Installation

uv add pipecat-ai   # extras: "pipecat-ai[option,...]"; pip also works