Building Livekit Agents
livekit/agent-skills/skills/building-livekit-agents
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Builds voice and chat AI agents with LiveKit Agents and LiveKit Cloud. Use when the user asks to "build a voice agent", "create a LiveKit agent", "add voice AI to my app", "implement handoffs", "structure an agent workflow", "my agent is slow / too chatty", "it says it booked but nothing was saved", "make it confirm before committing", "it keeps re-asking things the caller already said", or is writing code against the LiveKit Agents SDK. Covers architecture: designing for latency, keeping contex
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Skill details
Versionv1.0.0
AuthorLiveKit
Categorycoding
Skill IDlivekit/agent-skills/skills/building-livekit-agents
Files2 files
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