Can livekit works with just single agent and no participant?

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we want to create an agent for auctioning. The agent will be the only participant in the room. There won't be any other participant

Thanks — this is a great use case. I’ll walk through what you should consider to run a single-agent auctioning scenario in LiveKit and offer practical steps you can take next. Acknowledgement • You want an agent that’s the only participant in a room and will run auctions (no human participants). I’ll focus on how to keep the room active, authentication, and recommended patterns for auction logic. What to set up 1. Agent authentication ◦ Create the agent as an

AgentSession

and generate a JWT access token for it. The agent connects to the room exactly like any participant, using its token to authenticate. 1. Keep the room alive ◦ By default a room may close when the last non-agent participant leaves. Since your agent will be the only presence, ensure the room lifecycle doesn’t close prematurely: ▪︎ Have the agent maintain an active connection (keep-alive) for the duration of the auction. ▪︎ If available in your deployment, configure room lifecycle policies so rooms remain open while agents are connected. 1. Auction behavior patterns ◦ Run auction logic inside the agent process: ▪︎ Emit events in the room (e.g., new bid, auction start/stop) using data channels or server-side messages so external systems can subscribe or record activity. ▪︎ Persist auction state to your backend (bids, timestamps, winners) rather than relying solely on in-room memory, so results survive agent restarts. ▪︎ If you need recordings of the auction (audio/video or data), have the agent start recording or stream to a recorder while it’s connected. 1. Reliability considerations ◦ Reconnect logic: implement retry and reconnection in the agent so transient network issues don’t drop the auction. ◦ Health checks: monitor agent uptime and add alerts if it disconnects. ◦ Graceful shutdown: on planned shutdowns, finalize auction state and notify any consumers before disconnecting. 1. Integrations and telemetry ◦ Send auction events to your backend or analytics system in real time. ◦ If third parties need to watch auctions, you can: ▪︎ Create read-only watcher sessions that join the room (if watchers are needed), or ▪︎ Expose auction events through your backend API or WebSocket and let clients subscribe. Next steps I can help with • Provide a code example for generating the agent JWT and connecting the agent to a room. • Show how to send/receive auction events via data channels or server-side messages. • Suggest a simple room lifecycle pattern to keep the room open while the agent runs. Which would you like next — a token/connect code sample, an example of sending auction events, or guidance on room lifecycle configuration?