# REMOVING OF https://agents-playground.livekit.io/ **URL:** \ **Category:** Getting Started\ **Created:** [May 14, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/removing-of-https-agents-playground-livekit-io/1127 "2026-05-14T19:54:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aashrith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@aashrith](https://community.livekit.io/u/aashrith)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/removing-of-https-agents-playground-livekit-io/1127/1 "2026-05-14T19:54:07Z")
Hi LiveKit Team, Previously, I was able to manually test/join rooms using the old Agents Playground at: [https://agents-playground.livekit.io/](https://agents-playground.livekit.io/) I could simply provide: - LiveKit server URL - Room token and directly connect/test my agent manually. But now the playground redirects to: [https://cloud.livekit.io/projects](https://cloud.livekit.io/projects) and I can no longer find the old manual room join/testing interface. My use case: - I run my own LiveKit setup / custom agents - I generate tokens manually - I want to quickly test agents by pasting URL + token like before - I do not necessarily want to use full Cloud project configuration for every test Questions: 1. Is the old manual testing/join workflow removed? 2. How can we now use Console Configuration inside LiveKit Cloud for the same workflow? 3. Is there a replacement for the old Agents Playground UI? 4. Can we still manually connect to self-hosted LiveKit instances using token + URL? Would appreciate documentation or migration guidance. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Muhammad\_Usman\_Bashir](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.livekit.io/muhammad_usman_bashir/32/1149_2.png) [@Muhammad\_Usman\_Bashir](https://community.livekit.io/u/Muhammad_Usman_Bashir)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/removing-of-https-agents-playground-livekit-io/1127/2 "2026-05-14T20:01:20Z")
@aashrith, the hosted `agents-playground.livekit.io` has been gated behind Cloud sign-in, but the playground itself is still alive as OSS. The source is at [GitHub - livekit/agents-playground · GitHub](http://github.com/livekit/agents-playground), actively maintained (last push yesterday). Clone it, run locally against your dev environment, paste your wss `URL + token` like before, and you have the same workflow back for self-hosted testing. For quicker one-offs, `lk room join` from the LiveKit CLI connects to any wss URL with a token and is useful for headless sanity checks. The Agent Console inside [cloud.livekit.io](http://cloud.livekit.io) is the no-code path but it’s Cloud-only and won’t help for self-host. So for your specific use case (`manual token + URL` against your own server), the locally-run playground is the direct replacement. ---
**Author:** ![CWilson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.livekit.io/cwilson/32/135_2.png) [@CWilson](https://community.livekit.io/u/CWilson)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/removing-of-https-agents-playground-livekit-io/1127/3 "2026-05-14T21:29:49Z")
You should start using Agent Console. It has a lot of improvements and learning from the older Agents Playground > **[Agent Console | LiveKit Documentation](https://docs.livekit.io/agents/start/console/)** > > Debug your agents in realtime in the browser. ---
**Author:** ![darryncampbell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.livekit.io/darryncampbell/32/20_2.png) [@darryncampbell](https://community.livekit.io/u/darryncampbell)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 9:44am UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/removing-of-https-agents-playground-livekit-io/1127/4 "2026-05-15T09:44:01Z")
This was also asked here: > [@Missing Old LiveKit Playground UI](https://community.livekit.io/t/missing-old-livekit-playground-ui/1133): > > Hi team, I used to use the old LiveKit Agents Playground UI where I could manually enter the LiveKit URL and token to connect to an already running agent. Now when I click “Connect to Playground,” it redirects me to the new Agent Console at cloud.livekit.io/.../agents/console, and I no longer see the old token-based playground flow. I specifically need the old playground experience because I want to connect to an existing agent using a URL + token, not the new console flow. Is the old playgro… Well, you asked first 🙂 please also see my answer in that thread through - the source code for the agents playground is still available, but we do not maintain it anymore.