Google · Agent Skill
gemini-live-api-dev
Use this skill when building real-time, bidirectional streaming applications with the Gemini Live API, or migrating legacy Live models (2.0/2.5/3.1) to Gemini 3.8 Live. Covers WebSocket-based audio/video/text streaming, voice activity detection (VAD), background reasoning (extended thinking),…
- Repository owner
- google-gemini
Install
Read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing: a skill runs with your agent's permissions. This copies just this skill into Claude Code's user skills folder; other agents read skills from their own folder.
Claude Code (user-level)
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-skills.git /tmp/gemini-skills cd /tmp/gemini-skills && git sparse-checkout set "skills/gemini-live-api-dev" mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "skills/gemini-live-api-dev" ~/.claude/skills/gemini-live-api-dev
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Works with
Agent Skills is an open format, so this skill loads in any harness that supports it, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, goose, OpenHands. Some skills are written for one product and say so in their description.
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Reviewed Oct 5, 2026. Name and description are the skill's own frontmatter.