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Agora Skills

The fastest way to build real-time conversational AI applications and Voice Agents with your AI coding assistant.

Agora Skills is the official knowledge pack that teaches your AI coding assistant how to build on Agora — from picking the right product to wiring up credentials and running the first demo.

It's especially strong for conversational AI today — voice agents, AI companions, AI tutors, customer support bots, and physical AI — while still covering broader real-time use cases like chat, recording, and RTC-based experiences.

What This Skill Helps You Build

Developers use Agora Skills to build:

• AI Voice Agents — "I want to talk to an AI voice agent in my browser."
• AI Tutors — "Build an AI tutor that can speak with users in real time."
• AI Companions — "Create an AI companion with low-latency voice interaction and a custom personality."
• AI Customer Service — "Build an AI customer service voice agent to replace our IVR."
• AI Voice Toys — "Make a voice-enabled AI toy for kids with on-device wake word."
• Physical AI — "Add real-time voice to a robot, wearable, or in-car assistant."
• Custom LLM Backends — "Connect Agora Conversational AI to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, or my own model."

Agora Skills also covers real-time chat and messaging, session recording, production token generation, and traditional RTC scenarios (live streaming, voice chat rooms, live broadcast rooms) — see the capability table below for the full list.

Quick Start

Copy this into your AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Kiro, …):

Install the Agora skill from https://github.com/AgoraIO/skills and use it. I want to build a voice AI agent demo. Walk me through the full setup.

With the Agora skill loaded, the agent can then:

1. Log you into Agora via the Agora CLI — opens a browser for free sign-up if you don't already have an account. No manual API key copy-pasting.
2. Create an Agora project and extract the App ID, App Certificate, and any required tokens automatically.
3. Clone the official Conversational AI sample that matches your target stack (Web, Next.js, iOS, Android, Python, Go…).
4. Run the demo locally so you can actually talk to the voice agent within minutes.
5. Iterate from a working baseline — swap the LLM (OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini / DeepSeek / Qwen / your own), change the system prompt, add tools, or wire it into your existing app.

You should not need to manually dig through the Agora Console just to get a first voice agent running.

Installation

Skills CLI

npx skills add github:AgoraIO/skills

Claude Code Plugin

/plugin marketplace add AgoraIO/skills
/plugin install agora@agora-skills

Git Clone

git clone https://github.com/AgoraIO/skills.git

Then point your tool at:

skills/agora/SKILL.md

This works with tools like Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, or any environment that can read markdown-based skill instructions.

What’s Covered

Capability	Examples	Platforms
Conversational AI / Voice Agents	Real-time AI voice agents, AI companion, AI tutor, voice bots, customer support	Web, React, Next.js, iOS, Android, Python, Go
Video / Voice RTC	1:1 calls, group calls, live streaming, screen sharing	Web, React, Next.js, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter
Chat & Signaling	Real-time messaging, presence, notifications	Web, iOS, Android
Recording	Server-side recording of sessions	REST API
Auth & Tokens	Token generation for production apps	Node.js, Python, Go
Server Gateway	Server-side media streaming	Linux (C++)
Multi-Product Workflows	RTC + RTM + AI agents combined	Cross-platform

IDE & Tool Setup

Claude Code — symlink (user-level)

npx skills add github:AgoraIO/skills
# or manually:
ln -s ~/agora-skills/skills/agora ~/.claude/skills/agora

Claude Code — copy (project-level, shared with team)

mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r ~/agora-skills/skills/agora .claude/skills/agora

Cursor

Copy or symlink the skill into .cursor/rules/.

Windsurf

Add skills/agora/ to your Cascade context.

GitHub Copilot

Reference it with @workspace or add the instructions into .github/copilot-instructions.md.

Any other tool

The skill files are plain markdown. Use skills/agora/SKILL.md as the entry point.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

About

Powered by Agora(agora.io) — the real-time engagement platform behind voice, video, messaging, and interactive AI experiences.

• Agora Documentation: https://docs.agora.io/
• Agora Console: https://console.agora.io/
• Agora GitHub: https://github.com/AgoraIO

License

MIT