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Build voice AI agents with ElevenLabs. Use when creating voice assistants, customer service bots, interactive voice characters, or any real-time voice conversation experience.

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ElevenLabs Agents Platform

Name: agents
Rating: 89.60000000000001 (1 reviews)
Author: elevenlabs

Build voice AI agents with natural conversations, multiple LLM providers, custom tools, and easy web embedding.

Setup: See Installation Guide for CLI and SDK setup.

Quick Start with CLI

The ElevenLabs CLI is the recommended way to create and manage agents:

# Install CLI and authenticate
npm install -g @elevenlabs/cli
elevenlabs auth login

# Initialize project and create an agent
elevenlabs agents init
elevenlabs agents add "My Assistant" --template complete

# Push to ElevenLabs platform
elevenlabs agents push

Available templates: complete, minimal, voice-only, text-only, customer-service, assistant

Python

from elevenlabs import ElevenLabs

client = ElevenLabs()

agent = client.conversational_ai.agents.create(
    name="My Assistant",
    enable_versioning=True,
    conversation_config={
        "agent": {
            "first_message": "Hello! How can I help?",
            "language": "en",
            "prompt": {
                "prompt": "You are a helpful assistant. Be concise and friendly.",
                "llm": "gemini-2.0-flash",
                "temperature": 0.7
            }
        },
        "tts": {"voice_id": "JBFqnCBsd6RMkjVDRZzb"}
    }
)

JavaScript

import { ElevenLabsClient } from "@elevenlabs/elevenlabs-js";
const client = new ElevenLabsClient();

const agent = await client.conversationalAi.agents.create({
  name: "My Assistant",
  enableVersioning: true,
  conversationConfig: {
    agent: {
      firstMessage: "Hello! How can I help?",
      language: "en",
      prompt: {
        prompt: "You are a helpful assistant.",
        llm: "gemini-2.0-flash",
        temperature: 0.7
      }
    },
    tts: { voiceId: "JBFqnCBsd6RMkjVDRZzb" }
  }
});

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agents/create?enable_versioning=true" \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "My Assistant", "conversation_config": {"agent": {"first_message": "Hello!", "language": "en", "prompt": {"prompt": "You are helpful.", "llm": "gemini-2.0-flash"}}, "tts": {"voice_id": "JBFqnCBsd6RMkjVDRZzb"}}}'

Starting Conversations

Server-side (Python): Get signed URL for client connection:

signed_url = client.conversational_ai.conversations.get_signed_url(
    agent_id="your-agent-id",
    environment="staging",
)

Client-side (JavaScript):

import { Conversation } from "@elevenlabs/client";

const conversation = await Conversation.startSession({
  agentId: "your-agent-id",
  environment: "staging",
  onMessage: (msg) => console.log("Agent:", msg.message),
  onUserTranscript: (t) => console.log("User:", t.message),
  onError: (e) => console.error(e)
});

React Hook:

import { useConversation } from "@elevenlabs/react";

const conversation = useConversation({ onMessage: (msg) => console.log(msg) });
// Get a signed URL for the target environment from your backend, then:
await conversation.startSession({ signedUrl: token });

Configuration

Provider	Models
OpenAI	`gpt-5`, `gpt-5-mini`, `gpt-5-nano`, `gpt-4.1`, `gpt-4.1-mini`, `gpt-4.1-nano`, `gpt-4o`, `gpt-4o-mini`, `gpt-4-turbo`
Anthropic	`claude-sonnet-4-6`, `claude-sonnet-4-5`, `claude-sonnet-4`, `claude-haiku-4-5`, `claude-3-7-sonnet`, `claude-3-5-sonnet`, `claude-3-haiku`
Google	`gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview`, `gemini-3-pro-preview`, `gemini-3-flash-preview`, `gemini-2.5-flash`, `gemini-2.5-flash-lite`, `gemini-2.0-flash`, `gemini-2.0-flash-lite`
ElevenLabs	`glm-45-air-fp8`, `qwen3-30b-a3b`, `gpt-oss-120b`
Custom	`custom-llm` (bring your own endpoint)

Use GET /v1/convai/llm/list to inspect the current model catalog, including deprecation state, token/context limits, and capability flags such as image-input support.

Popular voices: JBFqnCBsd6RMkjVDRZzb (George), EXAVITQu4vr4xnSDxMaL (Sarah), onwK4e9ZLuTAKqWW03F9 (Daniel), XB0fDUnXU5powFXDhCwa (Charlotte)

Turn eagerness: patient (waits longer for user to finish), normal, or eager (responds quickly)

See Agent Configuration for all options.

Tools

Extend agents with webhook, client, or built-in system tools. Tools are defined inside conversation_config.agent.prompt:

Workspace environment variables can resolve per-environment server tool URLs, headers, and auth connections, and runtime system variables such as {{system__conversation_history}} can pass full conversation context into tool calls when needed.

"prompt": {
    "prompt": "You are a helpful assistant that can check the weather.",
    "llm": "gemini-2.0-flash",
    "tools": [
        # Webhook: server-side API call
        {"type": "webhook", "name": "get_weather", "description": "Get weather",
         "api_schema": {"url": "https://api.example.com/weather", "method": "POST",
             "request_body_schema": {"type": "object", "properties": {"location": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["location"]}}},
        # Client: runs in the browser
        {"type": "client", "name": "show_product", "description": "Display a product",
         "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"productId": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["productId"]}}
    ],
    "built_in_tools": {
        "end_call": {},
        "transfer_to_number": {"transfers": [{"transfer_destination": {"type": "phone", "phone_number": "+1234567890"}, "condition": "User asks for human support"}]}
    }
}

Client tools run in browser:

clientTools: {
  show_product: async ({ productId }) => {
    document.getElementById("product").src = `/products/${productId}`;
    return { success: true };
  }
}

See Client Tools Reference for complete documentation.

Widget Embedding

<elevenlabs-convai agent-id="your-agent-id"></elevenlabs-convai>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@elevenlabs/convai-widget-embed" async type="text/javascript"></script>

Customize with attributes: avatar-image-url, action-text, start-call-text, end-call-text.

See Widget Embedding Reference for all options.

Outbound Calls

Make outbound phone calls using your agent via Twilio integration:

Python

response = client.conversational_ai.twilio.outbound_call(
    agent_id="your-agent-id",
    agent_phone_number_id="your-phone-number-id",
    to_number="+1234567890",
    call_recording_enabled=True
)
print(f"Call initiated: {response.conversation_id}")

JavaScript

const response = await client.conversationalAi.twilio.outboundCall({
  agentId: "your-agent-id",
  agentPhoneNumberId: "your-phone-number-id",
  toNumber: "+1234567890",
  callRecordingEnabled: true,
});

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/twilio/outbound-call" \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"agent_id": "your-agent-id", "agent_phone_number_id": "your-phone-number-id", "to_number": "+1234567890", "call_recording_enabled": true}'

See Outbound Calls Reference for configuration overrides and dynamic variables.

Managing Agents

Using CLI (Recommended)

# List agents and check status
elevenlabs agents list
elevenlabs agents status

# Import agents from platform to local config
elevenlabs agents pull                      # Import all agents
elevenlabs agents pull --agent <agent-id>   # Import specific agent

# Push local changes to platform
elevenlabs agents push              # Upload configurations
elevenlabs agents push --dry-run    # Preview changes first

# Add tools
elevenlabs tools add-webhook "Weather API"
elevenlabs tools add-client "UI Tool"

Project Structure

The CLI creates a project structure for managing agents:

your_project/
├── agents.json       # Agent definitions
├── tools.json        # Tool configurations
├── tests.json        # Test configurations
├── agent_configs/    # Individual agent configs
├── tool_configs/     # Individual tool configs
└── test_configs/     # Individual test configs

SDK Examples

# List
agents = client.conversational_ai.agents.list()

# Get
agent = client.conversational_ai.agents.get(agent_id="your-agent-id")

# Update (partial - only include fields to change)
client.conversational_ai.agents.update(agent_id="your-agent-id", name="New Name")
client.conversational_ai.agents.update(agent_id="your-agent-id",
    conversation_config={
        "agent": {"prompt": {"prompt": "New instructions", "llm": "claude-sonnet-4"}}
    })

# Delete
client.conversational_ai.agents.delete(agent_id="your-agent-id")

See Agent Configuration for all configuration options and SDK examples.

Error Handling

try:
    agent = client.conversational_ai.agents.create(...)
except Exception as e:
    print(f"API error: {e}")

Common errors: 401 (invalid key), 404 (not found), 422 (invalid config), 429 (rate limit)

References

Installation Guide - SDK setup and migration
Agent Configuration - All config options and CRUD examples
Client Tools - Webhook, client, and system tools
Widget Embedding - Website integration
Outbound Calls - Twilio phone call integration

Repository: elevenlabs/skills
Commit: cab396c

Last updated: 11 days ago
Created: 11 days ago

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