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name: retellai-hello-world description: | Create a minimal working Retell AI example. Use when starting a new Retell AI integration, testing your setup, or learning basic Retell AI API patterns. Trigger with phrases like "retellai hello world", "retellai example", "retellai quick start", "simple retellai code". allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit version: 1.0.0 license: MIT author: Jeremy Longshore jeremy@intentsolutions.io

Retell AI Hello World

Overview

Minimal working example demonstrating core Retell AI functionality.

Prerequisites

• Completed retellai-install-auth setup
• Valid API credentials configured
• Development environment ready

Instructions

Step 1: Create Entry File

Create a new file for your hello world example.

Step 2: Import and Initialize Client

Copyimport { RetellAIClient } from '@retellai/sdk';

const client = new RetellAIClient({
  apiKey: process.env.RETELLAI_API_KEY,
});

Step 3: Make Your First API Call

Copyasync function main() {
  // Your first API call here
}

main().catch(console.error);

Output

• Working code file with Retell AI client initialization
• Successful API response confirming connection
• Console output showing:

CopySuccess! Your Retell AI connection is working.

Error Handling

Examples

TypeScript Example

Copyimport { RetellAIClient } from '@retellai/sdk';

const client = new RetellAIClient({
  apiKey: process.env.RETELLAI_API_KEY,
});

async function main() {
  // Your first API call here
}

main().catch(console.error);

Python Example

Copyfrom retellai import RetellAIClient

client = RetellAIClient()

# Your first API call here

Resources

• Retell AI Getting Started
• Retell AI API Reference
• Retell AI Examples

Next Steps

Proceed to retellai-local-dev-loop for development workflow setup.