LiveKit Voice Agent Development

This skill provides guidance for building voice AI agents with the LiveKit Agents SDK. It covers both LiveKit Cloud and self-hosted deployments, using the lk CLI for documentation access and project management. All factual information about APIs, methods, and configurations must come from live documentation.

MANDATORY: Read This Checklist Before Starting

Before writing ANY code, complete this checklist:

1. Read this entire skill document - Do not skip sections
2. Set up LiveKit credentials (Cloud project or self-hosted server) - You need LIVEKIT_URL, LIVEKIT_API_KEY, and LIVEKIT_API_SECRET
3. Set up documentation access - Install lk CLI for lk docs commands
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

Setup

LiveKit Cloud