How to make a tool call that the agent does not wait for. Instead it continues on while the tool call happens in the background. When tool call finishes then we can process it.

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I want to make tool calls that I don’t have to wait for a response, but when it does respond it pipes the data to the agent

I’m glad you’re exploring how to make tool calls that the agent doesn’t have to wait for and can process the response once it’s ready. You can achieve this by defining asynchronous functions using the

@function_tool

decorator in your agent class. LiveKit takes care of running these asynchronously and makes sure the results come back to your agent’s context smoothly. Here’s a quick rundown to help you get started: • Define your tool as an

async

function and decorate it with

@function_tool

. • Kick off the background task with

asyncio.ensure_future

. • Manage interruptions gracefully using

run_ctx.speech_handle.wait_if_not_interrupted

. • Return the tool’s result so it automatically flows back to the agent. If you’d like, I’d be happy to provide a detailed code example or walk you through any part that feels unclear. Just let me know! Sources: livekit-agents/livekit/agents/voice/agent_activity.py | agents/src/voice/agent_activity.ts