elevenlabs-sdk-patterns

name	elevenlabs-sdk-patterns
description	Apply production-ready ElevenLabs SDK patterns for TypeScript and Python. Use when implementing ElevenLabs integrations, refactoring SDK usage, or establishing team coding standards for audio AI applications. Trigger with "elevenlabs SDK patterns", "elevenlabs best practices", "elevenlabs code patterns", "idiomatic elevenlabs", "elevenlabs typescript".
allowed-tools	Read, Write, Edit
version	1.6.0
license	MIT
author	Jeremy Longshore <[e-mail]>
tags	["saas","voice","ai","elevenlabs","sdk","patterns"]
compatibility	Designed for Claude Code

ElevenLabs SDK Patterns

Overview

Production-ready patterns for the ElevenLabs TypeScript and Python SDKs. Covers singleton clients, type-safe TTS wrappers, error classification, retry with a concurrency queue, and multi-tenant client factories. Adopt them incrementally — the singleton client alone fixes the most common mistakes; add error classification and the queue as throughput grows.

The full, copy-ready code for all six patterns lives in references/implementation.md. This file gives the high-level workflow plus the essential skeleton so you can follow it end to end, then drill into the reference for depth.

Prerequisites

• @elevenlabs/elevenlabs-js installed (TypeScript) or elevenlabs (Python)
• ELEVENLABS_API_KEY exported in the environment (never hardcode the key)
• Familiarity with async/await patterns and error handling best practices

Instructions

Apply the patterns in order — each builds on the previous one:

1. Singleton client. Create one lazily-initialized ElevenLabsClient guarded by an ELEVENLABS_API_KEY check so misconfiguration fails fast at startup. Expose a resetClient() for tests. This is the skeleton every other pattern imports:

   let instance: ElevenLabsClient | null = null;
   export function getClient(): ElevenLabsClient {
     if (!instance) {
       if (!process.env.ELEVENLABS_API_KEY) {
         throw new Error("ELEVENLABS_API_KEY environment variable is required");
       }
       instance = new ElevenLabsClient({
         apiKey: process.env.ELEVENLABS_API_KEY,
         : ,
         : ,
       });
     }
      instance;
   }