# testing-livekit-agents

Writes turn-level tests for LiveKit agents in pytest or Vitest. It helps verify tool calls, handoffs, and regressions directly in your local test suite.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 379 installs · ★ 74
- Author: livekit
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/livekit/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/testing-livekit-agents/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/testing-livekit-agents

## What it does

The skill writes turn-level tests for LiveKit agents directly in your existing test runner, using pytest for Python or Vitest for Node.js. These tests execute in text mode without media streaming. That keeps them fast enough to run on every commit. Each test launches a session with the agent, runs a single user turn, and verifies the resulting event sequence.

Assertions fall into structural checks and judged checks. Structural assertions verify message roles, tool arguments, return payloads, and agent handoffs. Judged assertions use an LLM to evaluate whether a reply fulfills an intended outcome. If you use an LLM judge where a deterministic structural check works, the test suite becomes slower and flakier. For broader evaluations across multiple turns, built-in judges assess safety, grounding, and task completion.

Tools are mocked with fixed return values to keep execution hermetic. The skill explicitly writes tests for tool errors, ensuring the agent handles failed backend calls gracefully. Complex multi-turn flows are tested either by executing sequential turns or by seeding the conversation history directly.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add livekit/agent-skills --skill testing-livekit-agents -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/testing-livekit-agents/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/testing-livekit-agents/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add livekit/agent-skills --skill testing-livekit-agents -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/testing-livekit-agents/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add livekit/agent-skills --skill testing-livekit-agents -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/testing-livekit-agents/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install livekit/agent-skills testing-livekit-agents
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/testing-livekit-agents/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add livekit/agent-skills --skill testing-livekit-agents -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/livekit/agent-skills --path skills/testing-livekit-agents
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/testing-livekit-agents/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add livekit/agent-skills --skill testing-livekit-agents -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/livekit/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/testing-livekit-agents/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Write turn-level tests for an agent using pytest or Vitest
- Mock tool failures to verify how the agent handles backend errors
- Verify handoffs and context transfer between agents
- Evaluate reply intent using an LLM judge helper

## Example prompts
- Write a pytest test to verify handoff to another agent
- Add a test checking what the agent returns when a tool errors out
- Why does my Vitest agent turn test fail on tool execution?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: testing-livekit-agents
description: 'Writes turn-level tests for a LiveKit agent in the user''s normal test suite: pytest (Python) or Vitest (Node.js). Use when the user asks to "write tests for my agent", "add a test for this tool", "test the handoff", "pin this bug", "why does my agent test fail", or after building or changing agent behavior that needs regression coverage. Covers the SDK''s test session harness, assertions on messages, tool calls and handoffs, LLM judging of a reply against an intent, mocking tools, multi-turn tests, and judging whole conversations with the built-in judges. For interactive poking use debugging-livekit-agents. For grading whole conversations at scale use running-livekit-simulations.'
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: livekit
---

# Testing LiveKit agents

Turn-level tests are the cheapest lasting verification an agent can have. They run in the user's
existing suite, in text mode, and they're fast enough for every commit. The framework's helper
names and signatures change, so look them up with `reading-livekit-docs` before writing, and use
the testing docs page for every API detail this skill leaves out.

Every test has the same shape: start a test session with the agent under test, run one user turn,
and assert on the events that turn produced.

## What a test asserts on

A turn produces a sequence of events. A simple turn is one message. A more typical one is a tool
call, its output, maybe a handoff, and then a message. You write the test by walking that sequence
in order, asserting on each event, and then asserting the turn has nothing more.

There are three kinds of assertion, and most of this skill is knowing which one to use.

**Structural** assertions check message roles, that a tool was called, its arguments, what it
returned, and that a handoff to a specific agent happened. They're deterministic and fail for
exactly one reason, so prefer them.

**Judged** assertions use an LLM-judge helper that gives one message and an intent string to a
model and asks whether they match. Use them for the content of a reply, which you can't assert
exactly. Describe the intent by outcome ("tells the user the booking is confirmed and gives the
time"), not by wording.

**Whole-conversation** assertions use a judge-group helper that runs several built-in judges
concurrently over the whole chat history and aggregates their verdicts. The built-in judges cover
dimensions like grounding, relevance, safety, task completion, and tool use; the docs list the
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