Building LiveKit agents

This skill covers how to structure a voice agent. It has no API specifics, because those change; get them from reading-livekit-docs.

It assumes LiveKit Cloud, the recommended path: managed infrastructure, plus LiveKit Inference for models so you don't manage per-provider API keys.

Where the agent runs and which LiveKit the project uses are separate questions. An agent the user self-hosts (on their own servers instead of LiveKit Cloud's agent hosting) still connects to LiveKit Cloud and can still use LiveKit Inference. Inference is a LiveKit Cloud feature, so it's only off the table when the project runs on LiveKit OSS. The architecture advice applies either way; on LiveKit OSS, models come from each provider's own plugin and API keys.

Before you write code