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retellai-sdk-patterns

Production-ready Retell AI SDK patterns for voice agent applications. Use when building production voice agents, implementing retry logic, or establishing patterns. Trigger with phrases like "retell patterns", "voice agent patterns", "retell best practices".

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Retell AI SDK Patterns

Overview

Production-ready patterns for Retell AI: client singletons, typed agent configurations, call management, and error handling.

Prerequisites

  • Completed retellai-install-auth
  • retell-sdk installed

Instructions

Step 1: Singleton Client

typescript
import Retell from 'retell-sdk';

let _retell: Retell | null = null;

export function getRetellClient(): Retell {
  if (!_retell) {
    _retell = new Retell({ apiKey: process.env.RETELL_API_KEY! });
  }
  return _retell;
}

Step 2: Typed Agent Configuration

typescript
interface AgentConfig {
  name: string;
  voiceId: string;
  prompt: string;
  functions?: FunctionConfig[];
  maxCallDurationMs?: number;
  endCallAfterSilenceMs?: number;
}

async function createAgent(config: AgentConfig) {
  const retell = getRetellClient();

  const llm = await retell.llm.create({
    model: 'gpt-4o',
    general_prompt: config.prompt,
    functions: config.functions,
  });

  const agent = await retell.agent.create({
    response_engine: { type: 'retell-llm', llm_id: llm.llm_id },
    voice_id: config.voiceId,
    agent_name: config.name,
    max_call_duration_ms: config.maxCallDurationMs || 300000,
    end_call_after_silence_ms: config.endCallAfterSilenceMs || 10000,
  });

  return { agentId: agent.agent_id, llmId: llm.llm_id };
}

Step 3: Call Manager with Retry

typescript
async function makeCallWithRetry(
  fromNumber: string, toNumber: string, agentId: string, maxRetries = 2
) {
  const retell = getRetellClient();
  for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= maxRetries; attempt++) {
    try {
      const call = await retell.call.createPhoneCall({
        from_number: fromNumber,
        to_number: toNumber,
        override_agent_id: agentId,
      });
      return call;
    } catch (err: any) {
      if (attempt === maxRetries || err.status < 500) throw err;
      await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 2000 * (attempt + 1)));
    }
  }
}

Step 4: Batch Call Campaign

typescript
async function runCallCampaign(
  numbers: string[], agentId: string, concurrency = 3, delayMs = 2000
) {
  const results: Array<{ number: string; callId?: string; error?: string }> = [];
  const queue = [...numbers];
  const active = new Set<Promise<void>>();

  while (queue.length > 0 || active.size > 0) {
    while (active.size < concurrency && queue.length > 0) {
      const number = queue.shift()!;
      const p = (async () => {
        try {
          const call = await makeCallWithRetry(process.env.RETELL_PHONE_NUMBER!, number, agentId);
          results.push({ number, callId: call.call_id });
        } catch (err: any) {
          results.push({ number, error: err.message });
        }
        await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, delayMs));
      })();
      active.add(p);
      p.finally(() => active.delete(p));
    }
    if (active.size > 0) await Promise.race(active);
  }
  return results;
}

Output

  • Singleton Retell client
  • Typed agent creation with LLM configuration
  • Retry logic for call creation
  • Concurrent call campaign manager

Error Handling

Pattern Use Case Benefit
Singleton All SDK calls One client instance
Typed config Agent creation Type safety, defaults
Retry wrapper Call failures Automatic recovery
Campaign manager Outbound calls Rate-limited concurrency

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