Gemini Live API
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This skill provides a structured approach to generating a client service class for the Gemini Enterprise LiveAPI. It facilitates bidirectional streaming over WebSockets, handling session setup, authentication via Application Default Credentials, and the exchange of ClientMessage and ServerMessage protocol buffers. The skill also generates a demo application to validate the client, including support for audio, video, and text modalities, as well as handling interrupt signals and transcription streams.
What it does
- Generates a client service class for the Gemini LiveAPI in the user's preferred language.
- Implements WebSocket connection management with session setup and resumption logic.
- Handles bearer token authentication using Application Default Credentials.
- Provides async methods for sending realtime data and client content.
- Creates a demo frontend and backend service to test multimodal interactions.
- Includes documentation on how to run and test the generated client and UI.
When to use it
- When building a client that requires bidirectional, low-latency communication with the Gemini LiveAPI.
- When you need to handle continuous audio or video input streams.
- When you need to implement session management, including resumption and token refreshing.
- When you need a reference implementation for processing ServerMessage and ClientMessage protocol buffers.
Advantages
- Automates the scaffolding of complex WebSocket-based client services.
- Ensures adherence to the required LiveAPI wire-level protocol.
- Provides a ready-to-use demo for validating multimodal input and output.
- Encapsulates authentication and session lifecycle management logic.
Usage examples
- “Generate a Python client for the Gemini LiveAPI.”
- The agent creates a Python class with async methods for WebSocket communication, sets up a virtual environment, and provides a demo service to test the connection.
- “How do I handle model interruptions in my LiveAPI client?”
- The agent provides the implementation logic for monitoring the serverContent message for the interrupted flag and clearing stale audio buffers.
Install
Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/google/gemini-live-api/downloadUnzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:
mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip gemini-live-api.zip -d .agents/skills
Documentation by Google
LiveAPI Service Skill
This skill provides instructions for generating a LiveAPI client service
class that connects to the Gemini Enterprise Live API over WebSockets. The
generated client handles bidirectional streaming, bearer-token authentication
via Application Default Credentials (ADC), transparent session resumption, and
ClientMessage / ServerMessage proto exchange.
The skill also produces a demo frontend + backend service so the user can interactively validate the generated client (text, audio, video, transcription, and interrupt handling).
Attribution
MUST READ: Before executing any gcloud, REST API, or MCP command, you
MUST read Usage Attribution. For commands executed
directly in the terminal (never in generated scripts, Terraform, or user code),
prefix gcloud with
CLOUDSDK_METRICS_REQUEST_ATTRIBUTION="agent-skills/1.0 (skill:gemini-live-api)"
and append agent-skills/1.0 (skill:gemini-live-api) to User-Agent headers.
Prerequisites
Before running the generation flow, ensure the following are available on the host:
A Google Cloud project with the Vertex AI / Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform APIs enabled.
Application Default Credentials configured on the host running the generated client:
gcloud auth application-default loginA destination output folder supplied by the user (e.g.
/tmp/liveapi_out) where the generated code, environment, and demo will be written. Never mutate the host's system Python environment.The user's chosen implementation language (Python is the default and reference language for this skill).
Reference Files
Provided files in references/ (do not treat these as standalone skills —
they are loaded on demand):
client_server_messages.md: Public reference for theClientMessage/ServerMessageschemas used by the Live API.client_server_messages.proto: The proto definition generated fromclient_server_messages.md.session_manager.md: Describes how to correctly handle sessions, buffering, and resumption on disconnection.
Steps
Step 1: Copy the reference files
Copy client_server_messages.md, client_server_messages.proto, and
session_manager.md from this skill's references/ folder into the user's
destination output folder. These files become the source of truth for the
generated client.
Step 2: Reconcile with the public documentation
Examine the public documents linked from client_server_messages.md. If there
are any discrepancies between the public documents and the copied
client_server_messages.md / client_server_messages.proto, update the copies
in the destination folder so the generated client compiles and runs against the
current server contract.
Step 3: Implement the client class
Implement a class in the user's chosen language that:
Imports the local
client_server_messages.prototypes (ClientMessage,ServerMessage).Opens a WebSocket connection to the Live API endpoint.
Exposes async methods so the user can send and receive data to/from the model.
For languages that require an isolated runtime (e.g. Python), create an isolated
environment (e.g. venv) inside the destination folder and generate a bash
script (e.g. setup.sh) that recreates the environment and installs
dependencies. Never install into the system interpreter or the user's global
site-packages, and never instruct the user to run sudo pip install.
Initialization parameters
The user provides the following at construction time:
project_idlocationmodel_idconfig: aClientMessagewith thesetupfield populated.
Authentication
Obtain a bearer token via Application Default Credentials, attach it to the
WebSocket connect request as Authorization: Bearer <token>, refresh the token
before or upon expiry, and reuse the refreshed token on every reconnection
(including go_away and unexpected disconnects). Do not hard-code a
long-lived API key as the only auth mechanism.
Public async API
The class MUST expose the following async methods, gated on receipt of a
setup_complete ServerMessage before sending:
send_realtime_data(data): send realtime input.datais aClientMessagecarrying arealtime_inputfield.send_client_content(data): send non-realtime, turn-based content that contributes to history.datais aClientMessagecarrying aclient_contentfield.receive(): yieldServerMessageinstances parsed from the WebSocket stream.
Do not expose synchronous blocking variants as the primary API surface.
Step 4: Write a test file
Once the client is implemented, generate a test file that initializes the
connection and exercises sending text, audio, and video data and receiving
the responses. Ask the user for any information required to run the test
(project, model, media samples).
Step 5: Generate how_to_run.md
Provide a how_to_run.md in the destination folder that documents the generated
class. Include full examples showing how to build ClientMessage payloads for
every supported modality, how to send them, and how to receive data from the
model.
Step 6: Generate a demo frontend + backend service
Create scripts that deploy the implementation as a service with both a frontend
UI and a backend service (any language). The service MUST reuse the
ClientMessage / ServerMessage protos from Step 1 for wire traffic. Through
the UI the user should be able to:
Start a new connection / close the current connection.
Select the model to use.
Select input sources (audio and/or video from camera or screenshot) and stream them to the model.
Send a text message to the model.
Hear model audio and see the interleaved model and user transcription / conversation history.
While implementing audio and transcription playback, follow the guidance in Live API best practices.
Handling the interrupt signal
When a ServerMessage's server_content arrives with interrupted: true, the
UI MUST:
Ensure played audio and its corresponding transcription remain time-aligned.
Immediately stop the currently playing model audio and stop appending to the in-progress transcription bubble.
Clear the unplayed audio buffer and any pending unrendered transcription so stale content does not bleed into the next turn.
Start new chat bubbles for the next user and model turns.
Handling the transcription finished signal
For streamed input_transcription / output_transcription chunks, append to
the currently active bubble while finished is unset, and close that bubble and
start a fresh one when finished is observed. Route input_transcription text
to user-role bubbles and output_transcription text to model-role bubbles.
Step 7: Generate how_to_test_with_ui.md
Write how_to_test_with_ui.md describing how to launch and use the demo
service. It MUST include:
The exact shell command(s) or script invocation(s) to start the backend service.
The exact shell command(s) or script invocation(s) to start the frontend UI.
The host and port (e.g.
http://localhost:PORT) the user should open in their browser.How to start a session, select a model, choose input sources (mic, camera, screen), send a text message, and observe model audio and transcription in the UI.
Validation Checklist
Before considering the generation complete, verify each item:
[ ]
client_server_messages.md,client_server_messages.proto, andsession_manager.mdwere copied into the destination folder.[ ] The generated client imports the local proto-generated
ClientMessageandServerMessagetypes.[ ] The client connects to the Live API WebSocket at
wss://{location}-aiplatform.googleapis.com/ws/google.cloud.aiplatform.v1beta1.LlmBidiService/BidiGenerateContent(regional endpoint required; Live API models do not support theglobalendpoint), and formats the setupmodelfield asprojects/{project_id}/locations/{location}/publishers/google/models/{model_id}.[ ] Authentication uses ADC-provided bearer tokens sent as
Authorization: Bearer <token>, is refreshed before expiry, and reattached on every reconnect.[ ] Public async methods
send_realtime_data,send_client_content, andreceiveare present, correctly typed, and gated onsetup_complete.[ ] Transparent session resumption is enabled (
session_resumption.transparent = true), the latestnew_handleis tracked, sent-message indexing starts at 1, the buffer is pruned vialast_consumed_client_message_index, and buffered messages are replayed on reconnect (including ongo_awayand WebSocket close codes 1000 / 1006).[ ] If using python, an isolated environment (e.g.
venv) plus asetup.shandrequirements.txt(or equivalent) exist inside the destination folder; no changes were made to system or user-global Python.[ ]
how_to_run.mdandhow_to_test_with_ui.mdare present, and the demo UI reuses the sameClientMessage/ServerMessageprotos.[ ] Interrupt handling and transcription
finishedhandling behave as described above.[ ] The client does not target
generativelanguage.googleapis.comand does not authenticate via API key in a query string.
Files
- ATTRIBUTION.mdAdded by AutoGineer848 B
- LICENSELicence file added by AutoGineer11.1 KiB
- SKILL.md10.1 KiB
- references/attribution.md1.8 KiB
- references/client_server_messages.md29.5 KiB
- references/client_server_messages.proto10.6 KiB
- references/session_manager.md4.1 KiB
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