Operating LiveKit agents

Everything after the agent works: getting a version onto LiveKit Cloud, keeping it fast and alive under real load, and changing it without breaking what's already running. The commands live under lk agent; read lk agent --help and each subcommand's help rather than trusting this skill for flags — it deliberately doesn't restate them. reading-livekit-docs has the deployment and observability docs.

Deploying to LiveKit Cloud

On a self-hosted LiveKit server the lk agent deploy commands do not apply. Ship the agent as a container or process under your own tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, systemd), keep secrets in its environment, and look up the server side with lk docs get-page /home/self-hosting. The worker, shutdown, and observability guidance below applies either way.

The shape is stable even as the flags move: