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Gemini API Session management with Live API
Explains how to manage stateful interactions within the Gemini Live API, including session lifecycles and handling real-time connections.
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Gemini API Session management with Live API
Explains how to manage stateful interactions within the Gemini Live API, including session lifecycles and handling real-time connections.
When To Use
Use when implementing real-time, stateful multimodal interactions that require managing connection lifecycles and session continuity via the Gemini Live API.
Reference Files
| File | Contains | Use For |
|---|---|---|
SKILL.md | Entry point: scope, routing table, and workflow. | Start here. |
docs/gemini-api-session-management-with-live-workflow-guide.md | A guide explaining session lifetime and context window compression for the Gemini Live API. | Questions about a guide explaining session lifetime and context window compression for the Gemini Live API. |
examples/gemini-api-session-management-with-live-gemini-api-live-session-manageme.text | A Python code snippet demonstrating how to configure Live API session management using LiveConnectConfig and ContextWindowCompressionConfig. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A Python code snippet demonstrating how to configure Live API session management using LiveConnectConfig and ContextW... |
examples/gemini-api-session-management-with-live-gemini-api-live-session-manageme-2.text | A configuration object defining response modalities and context window compression settings for Gemini API Live sessions. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A configuration object defining response modalities and context window compression settings for Gemini API Live sessi... |
examples/gemini-api-session-management-with-live-gemini-api-live-session-resumpti.text | A Python code example demonstrating how to use the Gemini Live API to manage and resume sessions using session resumption configurations. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A Python code example demonstrating how to use the Gemini Live API to manage and resume sessions using session resump... |
examples/gemini-api-session-management-with-live-gemini-api-live-session-manageme-3.text | A Node.js code example demonstrating how to manage sessions using the Gemini API Live feature. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A Node.js code example demonstrating how to manage sessions using the Gemini API Live feature. |
examples/gemini-api-session-management-with-live-gemini-api-live-session-receive-.text | A Python code snippet demonstrating how to asynchronously iterate through incoming responses and handle goaway signals within a Gemini Live API session. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A Python code snippet demonstrating how to asynchronously iterate through incoming responses and handle goaway signal... |
examples/gemini-api-session-management-with-live-gemini-api-live-session-manageme-4.text | A JavaScript code snippet demonstrating how to iterate through turns and handle the goAway signal during a Gemini Live API session. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A JavaScript code snippet demonstrating how to iterate through turns and handle the goAway signal during a Gemini Liv... |
examples/gemini-api-session-management-with-live-gemini-api-live-session-receive--2.text | A Python code snippet demonstrating how to asynchronously iterate through incoming responses from a Gemini Live API session. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A Python code snippet demonstrating how to asynchronously iterate through incoming responses from a Gemini Live API s... |
examples/gemini-api-session-management-with-live-gemini-api-live-session-manageme-5.text | A JavaScript code example demonstrating how to iterate through and handle server content turns within a Gemini API Live session. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A JavaScript code example demonstrating how to iterate through and handle server content turns within a Gemini API Li... |
What This Skill Covers
- In the Live API, a session refers to a persistent connection where input and output are streamed continuously over the same connection (read more about how i...
- Main sections:
Session lifetime,Context window compression,Python,JavaScript,Session resumption.
Workflow
- Open the most relevant file under
docs/for the exact documented workflow and wording. - Open
schemas/files for exact structured contracts. - Open
examples/files for concrete requests, commands, snippets, and manifests. - Do not add behavior or configuration that is not present in the attached source files.
Canonical source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/live-api/session-management