docs: daily engineering digest 2026-06-17

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Summary

Daily engineering digest for livekit/agents covering 2026-06-16 00:01 UTC – 2026-06-17 00:01 UTC.

Adds automations/livekit-agent/2026-06-17.markdown with:

• 6 key change bullets (9 upstream merges)
• Watchlist with 3 follow-up items

Highlights from upstream

• feat(eot): add audio models AGT-2520 livekit/agents#4722 — Audio EOT models (inference.TurnDetector, inference.VAD()); deprecates turn-detector plugin
• fix(voice): include conversation items added during tool execution in reply context livekit/agents#6084 / fix(voice): skip end-of-turn metrics on stale/out-of-order speaking anchor livekit/agents#6098 / fix: honor per-agent preemptive_generation options livekit/agents#6114 — Voice session reliability fixes
• fix(worker): fix timeout option overrides and update initialize_process_timeout livekit/agents#6121 — Worker timeout option overrides
• fix(azure): flush buffered audio on end_input to avoid truncated STT livekit/agents#6118 — Azure STT flush on end_input
• feat(llm): list available tools in unknown-function error output livekit/agents#6085 / fix(workflows): normalize placeholder strings in GetNameTask arguments livekit/agents#6086 — LLM/workflow DX improvements
• Improve hotel receptionist example: policies, card collection, richer DB livekit/agents#6087 — Hotel receptionist example expansion