Can I list all active rooms on my LiveKit server?

Yes! Use the `list_rooms` tool. It calls the LiveKit RoomService ListRooms endpoint and returns all currently open rooms with their participant count, metadata, and creation time.

How do I mute a participant's microphone?

First use `list_participants` to get the track SID for the participant's audio track. Then call `mute_track` with the room name, participant identity, track SID, and muted set to 'true'.

Does this work with self-hosted LiveKit servers?

Yes! Just provide your self-hosted server's URL (e.g., https://livekit.yourserver.com) as the Host URL, along with the API Key and Secret from your server's config.yaml.

LiveKit Real-Time Rooms MCP Server for Claude Desktop 10 tools — connect in under 2 minutes

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Claude Desktop is Anthropic's native application for interacting with Claude AI models on macOS and Windows. It was the first consumer application to ship with built-in MCP support, making it the reference implementation for the Model Context Protocol standard.

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{
  "mcpServers": {
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About LiveKit Real-Time Rooms MCP Server

Connect your AI agents to LiveKit, the open-source framework and cloud platform for real-time voice, video, and AI agent communication. This MCP provides 10 tools to manage the full room lifecycle via the LiveKit Twirp Room Service API.

Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect LiveKit Real-Time Rooms to your AI workflow. Add the Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 10 tools in the chat interface — ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.

What you can do

Room Management — Create, list, and delete real-time voice/video rooms with configurable timeouts and participant limits
Participant Control — List, inspect, update metadata, and remove participants from active rooms
Track Moderation — Mute or unmute any published audio/video track for content moderation
Live Data Messaging — Broadcast data payloads to all participants with reliable or lossy delivery modes
Room Metadata — Dynamically update room-level metadata visible to all connected clients

The LiveKit Real-Time Rooms MCP Server exposes 10 tools through the Vinkius. Connect it to Claude Desktop in under two minutes — no API keys to rotate, no infrastructure to provision, no vendor lock-in. Your configuration, your data, your control.

How to Connect LiveKit Real-Time Rooms to Claude Desktop via MCP

Follow these steps to integrate the LiveKit Real-Time Rooms MCP Server with Claude Desktop.

Open Claude Desktop Settings

Go to Settings → Developer → Edit Config to open claude_desktop_config.json

Add the MCP Server

Paste the configuration above into the mcpServers section

Restart Claude Desktop

Close and reopen Claude Desktop to load the new server

Start using LiveKit Real-Time Rooms

Look for the 🔌 icon in the chat — your 10 tools are now available

Why Use Claude Desktop with the LiveKit Real-Time Rooms MCP Server

Claude Desktop by Anthropic provides unique advantages when paired with LiveKit Real-Time Rooms through the Model Context Protocol.

Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client — it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available

Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface

Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions

Enterprise-grade security with local config storage — your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to the Vinkius Edge network

LiveKit Real-Time Rooms + Claude Desktop Use Cases

Practical scenarios where Claude Desktop combined with the LiveKit Real-Time Rooms MCP Server delivers measurable value.

Interactive data exploration: ask Claude to query DNS records, look up WHOIS data, and cross-reference results in a single conversation

Ad-hoc security audits: type a domain name and let Claude enumerate subdomains, check DNS history, and flag configuration anomalies — all through natural language

Executive briefings: generate comprehensive domain intelligence reports by asking Claude to compile findings into a formatted summary

Learning and training: new team members can explore API capabilities conversationally without needing to read documentation

LiveKit Real-Time Rooms MCP Tools for Claude Desktop (10)

These 10 tools become available when you connect LiveKit Real-Time Rooms to Claude Desktop via MCP:

create_room

Participants can join it via access tokens. Create a new LiveKit room with specified settings

delete_room

Requires roomCreate permission. Delete a room, disconnecting all participants

get_participant

Get detailed information about a specific participant

list_participants

List all participants currently in a room

list_rooms

List all active rooms on the LiveKit server

mute_track

Mute or unmute a participant's published track

remove_participant

On LiveKit Cloud, their token is also revoked. Remove a participant from a room

send_data

Use "reliable" for guaranteed delivery or "lossy" for low-latency. Send a data message to all participants in a room

update_participant_metadata

Update a participant's metadata

update_room_metadata

Use JSON strings for structured data. Update the metadata of a room

Example Prompts for LiveKit Real-Time Rooms in Claude Desktop

Ready-to-use prompts you can give your Claude Desktop agent to start working with LiveKit Real-Time Rooms immediately.

"List all active rooms on my LiveKit server."

"Create a room called 'interview-session' with a max of 3 participants."

"Remove the participant 'user-abc' from room 'support-call-42'."

Troubleshooting LiveKit Real-Time Rooms MCP Server with Claude Desktop

Common issues when connecting LiveKit Real-Time Rooms to Claude Desktop through the Vinkius, and how to resolve them.

Server not appearing after restart

Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).

Authentication error

Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.

Tools not showing in chat

Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting — wait a few seconds.

LiveKit Real-Time Rooms + Claude Desktop FAQ

Common questions about integrating LiveKit Real-Time Rooms MCP Server with Claude Desktop.

How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?

When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.

What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?

Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully — if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.

Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?

Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.

Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?

Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.

Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?

Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL — Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.