Building real-time AI agents isn’t quite like working with the standard web APIs we’re used to. With a typical API, there’s a predictable lifecycle: the client sends a request, the server processes it, returns a response, and then moves on.

Building real-time AI agents isn’t quite like working with the standard web APIs we’re used to. With a typical API, there’s a predictable lifecycle: the client sends a request, the server processes it, returns a response, and then moves on.