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building-livekit-agents from livekit/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add livekit/agent-skills/building-livekit-agents@git:20261021.e1195b4Pins git:20261021.e1195b4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- livekit/agent-skills
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skills/building-livekit-agents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261021.e1195b4, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 24, 2026
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- 11,016 bytes
- Repository stars
- 74
- License
- MIT
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…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 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. ## Models: default to LiveKit Inference Use LiveKit Inference for each model that the agent uses: STT, LLM, TTS, or a realtime model. Many examples, and much of the LiveKit code that you remember, use a provider plugin for each model. Do not copy that pattern. Inference is better for these reasons: - **No extra credentials.** Inference uses the LiveKit Cloud credentials the agent already has. A …
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How to install
mdr add livekit/agent-skills/building-livekit-agents@sha256:5dc9e9d325422bf0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.e1195b4, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 24, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-24 | 4305938 | 9,637 B | A | view |
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Source
livekit/agent-skills · 74 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fgc2tqy7wvdj6z5v GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=livekit/agent-skills/building-livekit-agents GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5dc9e9d325422bf03feae7730858ae57affd1b3c5b8749699380d55ac7c3cac6
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