Optional_Live OTel context of the CURRENT voice.turn, published by
defaultVoiceCall for background-receive-loop adapters
(Pipecat/Twilio) to parent their detached-callback recv spans under the
turn (#774 — the reusable pattern Twilio PR5 inherits). undefined between
turns, so a callback firing outside a turn skips its span rather than
parenting under a closed turn. Internal (underscore) — not a public API.
ReadonlyaccountSET when the AGENT deliberately ended the call (e.g. an ElevenLabs hosted
agent invoking the end_call system tool), as opposed to the transport
dropping. A scripted turn arriving after this concludes the conversation
instead of failing the run — the agent behaved as designed. Assertions and
judges can read it to reason about WHO ended the call.
OptionalagentSet when the adapter has emitted its first agent audio chunk for the
current turn — gates timing-based barge-in. Concrete adapters expose
this so scenario.interrupt can wait for real speech before
firing the interruption. Optional: adapters without server-VAD-style
interrupt sequencing can leave it undefined.
Optional ReadonlyallowedReadonlyauthReadonlycapabilitiesDeclaration of what this adapter can and cannot do. Concrete subclasses MUST publish a non-default value; the base instance defaults to "nothing supported" so capability-gated steps fail safely when an adapter forgets to declare.
ReadonlyfetchReadonlyhttpOptionalnameOptional ReadonlyonReadonlyphoneOptionalpublicCalled by the server when an inbound webhook is rejected (caller filter or bad signature). Exposed for tests; production callers see the HTTP response and never look at this counter.
Hard cap on a single agent turn's audio. Prevents runaway loops if a transport never signals end-of-stream. 30s = a long sentence.
Tail silence: once the first agent chunk arrives, keep draining receiveAudio until no chunk shows up within this many seconds — that's how we detect the agent finished talking.
Seconds to wait for agent audio after sending user audio: the STT + LLM +
TTS budget for one agent turn. Kept identical to Python's
VoiceAgentAdapter.response_timeout so the same scenario passes or fails
the same way in both SDKs.
Raise it for an agent that runs a tool call or a retrieval step before it speaks:
const agent = elevenLabsAgent({ agentId, apiKey });
agent.responseTimeout = 180; // wait up to 3 minutes
OptionalstreamingIncremental transcript text emitted while the agent speaks. Populated
by adapters that advertise capabilities.streamingTranscripts. Read
by scenario.interrupt when afterWords: N is set.
Bounded grace-wait (seconds) for the agent turn's transcript AFTER audio
drains (#734). Audio silence closes the turn (responseTailSilence), but a
live voice agent (hosted ElevenLabs) delivers the turn's text on a SEPARATE
socket event (agent_response → lastAgentTranscript). When that event
lands after the audio-silence boundary, snapshotting lastAgentTranscript
at drain-close reads null and the turn reaches the text-only simulator as
a bare [audio message] — the simulator then fabricates.
The default call() flow (defaultVoiceCall) polls this field up to
this ceiling for a pending transcript before reading it. It short-circuits
the INSTANT lastAgentTranscript is already set (zero added latency on the
happy path — the common case where the transcript won the race) and only
elapses when the transcript genuinely never arrives, so a real ElevenLabs
drop still terminates the turn. Set to 0 to disable the wait.
ReadonlyvalidateInternal
Test-only view of the disconnect-counter (#775 review): lets a test poll for a REAL wire delivery to have landed before proceeding, instead of a blind sleep.
Internal
Internal
Test-only view of the transport state the server nulls on teardown.
Internal
Test-only view of the transport state the server nulls on teardown.
Test seam: the running webhook server's bound HTTP base URL (e.g.
http://127.0.0.1:54321). Useful for tests that don't want a tunnel.
Throws if the adapter isn't connected.
Test seam: directly drive a media-stream loop over a provided socket.
Production code reaches the loop via the /twilio/stream route.
Test seam: drive the FULL production per-connection wrapper
(TwilioWebhookServer.runStreamSession) over a provided socket — the
loop PLUS the finally that nulls _streamWs/_streamSid, exactly as the
real /twilio/stream handler does after a call ends. Unlike
_driveMediaStream (loop only), this reproduces the #695 teardown
race so a follow-up receiveAudio runs against nulled transport state.
Internal
Internal
Internal
Disconnect-counter (#775 Tier 2b): one dtmf frame received.
Internal
Disconnect-counter (#775 Tier 2b): one media frame received.
Internal
Disconnect-counter (#775 Tier 2b): one /twilio/voice POST.
Internal
Re-arm per-CALL state at media-stream-loop entry. Both halves are per-call, not per-connection, so a second session on the same connected adapter must not inherit either of them.
The flag alone is not enough: the previous call's finally ENQUEUED a
terminal sentinel, and if that call ended while no drain was running (the
caller hung up between turns) the sentinel is still buffered. receiveAudio
drains a non-empty queue without checking liveness, so the new call's first
receiveAudio would hand that stale empty chunk to drainAgentResponse as
its first chunk — and the drain breaks on an empty chunk, truncating the new
call's first agent turn to silence.
No frame of this call has been enqueued yet, so buffered chunks are the
previous session's residue. clearBuffered (not reset) so a consumer
already parked in take() stays parked for the new call's real audio.
Internal
Internal
Disconnect-counter (#775 Tier 2b): how the media session ended.
Internal
Internal
Internal
Default call() body, ported from Python VoiceAgentAdapter.call.
Threads the latest user-message audio through sendAudio, drains the agent response on tail silence, records one user and one agent segment into the executor state, and returns the merged assistant audio message. Subclasses may override for specialised flows but will usually inherit it.
Open the transport and prepare to exchange audio.
Close the transport and release resources.
Send a first-class interrupt signal to the agent under test.
Adapters that advertise capabilities.interruption === true override
this to send the transport-native interrupt (e.g. Twilio clear,
OpenAI Realtime response.cancel). The default raises
UnsupportedCapabilityError; callers (scenario.interrupt())
check capabilities.interruption and fall back to timing-based
barge-in when this returns false.
Whether the Media Stream transport is open (Gap #11).
Transmit DTMF tones to the telephony peer. Adapters that advertise
capabilities.dtmf MUST implement this; the default raises
UnsupportedCapabilityError so an adapter that forgot to ship
sendDtmf while claiming the capability fails loudly instead of
silently routing through a PCM fallback.
Abstract base for voice agents that exchange audio with the agent under test.
Subclasses must implement connect, disconnect, sendAudio, and receiveAudio. They must also publish an AdapterCapabilities instance as the capabilities field — declared once per concrete adapter, not per instance.
The default call implementation lives in defaultVoiceCall: it extracts audio from the latest user message, transmits via sendAudio, drains the agent response on tail silence, and records one user + one agent segment into the executor state. Subclasses can override
call()for specialised flows but will usually inherit it.