# Build voice and multimodal agents with Pipecat

> Use Pipecat to define realtime voice and multimodal agent pipelines with transports, model providers, tools, and turn-taking tests.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/build-voice-and-multimodal-agents-with-pipecat` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/build-voice-and-multimodal-agents-with-pipecat`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/build-voice-and-multimodal-agents-with-pipecat/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/build-voice-and-multimodal-agents-with-pipecat

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# Build voice and multimodal agents with Pipecat

Use Pipecat to define realtime voice and multimodal agent pipelines with transports, model providers, tools, and turn-taking tests.

## Prerequisites

Pipecat, audio or video transport, model provider credentials

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- Install uv
- uv init my-pipecat-app
- uv add pipecat-ai
- uv add "pipecat-ai[option,...]"

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- **Pipecat** is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents. Build a single voice agent or a full multi-agent system where specialists hand off, fan out in parallel...
- **Minimum Python Version:** 3.11

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Want to dive right in? Run pipecat init quickstart or follow the [quickstart guide](https://docs.pipecat.ai/getting-started/quickstart).
- **Multi-Agent Systems** – specialists that hand off, fan out in parallel, or run as sidecars over a shared bus
- cp env.example .env

- Source: https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/build-voice-and-multimodal-agents-with-pipecat/)