operating-livekit-agents SKILL.md skillA
operating-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/operating-livekit-agents@git:20260924.5d7488bPins git:20260924.5d7488b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- livekit/agent-skills
- Path
skills/operating-livekit-agents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260924.5d7488b, committed Sep 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 9,736 bytes
- Repository stars
- 74
- License
- MIT
Deploys and operates a LiveKit agent in production: shipping a version to LiveKit Cloud and rolling it back, secrets and configuration, the worker process model and prewarming, safe async inside worker processes, provider timeouts and degradation, graceful shutdown, SDK upgrades, and observability. Use when the user says "deploy my agent", "roll back the deployment", "tail the agent logs", "the first call after a restart is slow", "attached to a different loop / event loop is closed…
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
# 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 The shape is stable even as the flags move: 1. **A project directory is bound to an agent** by a config file the CLI writes (`livekit.toml`). Commands run from that directory find the agent without an id. 2. **The agent ships as a container.** The CLI can generate a Dockerfile for the project, or you bring a prebuilt image. Run the container's start command locally (`lk agent start`) before the first deploy — it's production mode, with production logging and a shutdown drain, and it is not what `dev` mode runs. 3. **Each deploy creates a version** and rolls it out. `status`, `versions`, and `logs` (build logs and deploy logs are separate) tell you what's live and why a rollout failed. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add livekit/agent-skills/operating-livekit-agents@sha256:4583f731a9ed393eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.5d7488b, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 24, 2026.
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| git:20260924.5d7488b latest | 2026-09-24 | 5d7488b | 9,736 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-24 | 4305938 | 9,755 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_gwxzqoa5vztn4h4e GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=livekit/agent-skills/operating-livekit-agents GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4583f731a9ed393e650d04272fc33dbe1abbe3960a7973d6d90c1f0877c81a75
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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