diff --git a/.changeset/major-parks-behave.md b/.changeset/major-parks-behave.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f4b2073c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/major-parks-behave.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@livekit/agents': patch
+---
+
+Add session shutdown API
diff --git a/agents/src/voice/agent_session.ts b/agents/src/voice/agent_session.ts
index 4792a5ef..fd92d34c 100644
--- a/agents/src/voice/agent_session.ts
+++ b/agents/src/voice/agent_session.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ import {
   type ErrorEvent,
   type FunctionToolsExecutedEvent,
   type MetricsCollectedEvent,
+  type ShutdownReason,
   type SpeechCreatedEvent,
   type UserInputTranscribedEvent,
   type UserState,
@@ -497,13 +498,22 @@ export class AgentSession<
     await this.closeImpl(CloseReason.USER_INITIATED);
   }
 
+  shutdown(options?: { drain?: boolean; reason?: ShutdownReason }): void {
+    const { drain = true, reason = CloseReason.USER_INITIATED } = options ?? {};
+
+    this._closeSoon({
+      reason,
+      drain,
+    });
+  }
+
   /** @internal */
   _closeSoon({
     reason,
     drain = false,
     error = null,
   }: {
-    reason: CloseReason;
+    reason: ShutdownReason;
     drain?: boolean;
     error?: RealtimeModelError | STTError | TTSError | LLMError | null;
   }): void {
@@ -662,7 +672,7 @@ export class AgentSession<
   }
 
   private async closeImpl(
-    reason: CloseReason,
+    reason: ShutdownReason,
     error: RealtimeModelError | LLMError | TTSError | STTError | null = null,
     drain: boolean = false,
   ): Promise<void> {
@@ -676,7 +686,7 @@ export class AgentSession<
   }
 
   private async closeImplInner(
-    reason: CloseReason,
+    reason: ShutdownReason,
     error: RealtimeModelError | LLMError | TTSError | STTError | null = null,
     drain: boolean = false,
   ): Promise<void> {
diff --git a/agents/src/voice/events.ts b/agents/src/voice/events.ts
index 4a809c4c..f52f80be 100644
--- a/agents/src/voice/events.ts
+++ b/agents/src/voice/events.ts
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ import type {
   ChatMessage,
   FunctionCall,
   FunctionCallOutput,
+  LLM,
+  RealtimeModel,
   RealtimeModelError,
 } from '../llm/index.js';
-import type { LLM, RealtimeModel } from '../llm/index.js';
 import type { LLMError } from '../llm/llm.js';
 import type { AgentMetrics } from '../metrics/base.js';
 import type { STT } from '../stt/index.js';
@@ -38,6 +39,8 @@ export enum CloseReason {
   USER_INITIATED = 'user_initiated',
 }
 
+export type ShutdownReason = CloseReason | `custom_${string}`;
+
 export type SpeechSource = 'say' | 'generate_reply' | 'tool_response';
 
 export type UserStateChangedEvent = {
@@ -231,12 +234,12 @@ export const createErrorEvent = (
 export type CloseEvent = {
   type: 'close';
   error: RealtimeModelError | STTError | TTSError | LLMError | null;
-  reason: CloseReason;
+  reason: ShutdownReason;
   createdAt: number;
 };
 
 export const createCloseEvent = (
-  reason: CloseReason,
+  reason: ShutdownReason,
   error: RealtimeModelError | STTError | TTSError | LLMError | null = null,
   createdAt: number = Date.now(),
 ): CloseEvent => ({
diff --git a/examples/src/manual_shutdown.ts b/examples/src/manual_shutdown.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a4659f2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/src/manual_shutdown.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 LiveKit, Inc.
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+import {
+  type JobContext,
+  type JobProcess,
+  WorkerOptions,
+  cli,
+  defineAgent,
+  llm,
+  voice,
+} from '@livekit/agents';
+import * as livekit from '@livekit/agents-plugin-livekit';
+import * as silero from '@livekit/agents-plugin-silero';
+import { BackgroundVoiceCancellation } from '@livekit/noise-cancellation-node';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { z } from 'zod';
+
+export default defineAgent({
+  prewarm: async (proc: JobProcess) => {
+    proc.userData.vad = await silero.VAD.load();
+  },
+  entry: async (ctx: JobContext) => {
+    const agent = new voice.Agent({
+      instructions:
+        "You are a helpful assistant, you can hear the user's message and respond to it, end the call when the user asks you to.",
+      tools: {
+        getWeather: llm.tool({
+          description: 'Get the weather for a given location.',
+          parameters: z.object({
+            location: z.string().describe('The location to get the weather for'),
+          }),
+          execute: async ({ location }) => {
+            return `The weather in ${location} is sunny.`;
+          },
+        }),
+        endCall: llm.tool({
+          description: 'End the call.',
+          parameters: z.object({
+            reason: z
+              .enum([
+                'assistant-ended-call',
+                'sip-call-transferred',
+                'user-ended-call',
+                'unknown-error',
+              ])
+              .describe('The reason to end the call'),
+          }),
+          execute: async ({ reason }, { ctx }) => {
+            session.generateReply({
+              userInput: `You are about to end the call due to ${reason}, notify the user with one last message`,
+            });
+            await ctx.waitForPlayout();
+
+            session.shutdown({ reason: `custom_${reason}` });
+          },
+        }),
+      },
+    });
+
+    const session = new voice.AgentSession({
+      stt: 'assemblyai/universal-streaming:en',
+      llm: 'openai/gpt-4.1-mini',
+      tts: 'cartesia/sonic-2:9626c31c-bec5-4cca-baa8-f8ba9e84c8bc',
+      vad: ctx.proc.userData.vad! as silero.VAD,
+      turnDetection: new livekit.turnDetector.MultilingualModel(),
+      voiceOptions: {
+        preemptiveGeneration: true,
+      },
+    });
+
+    // Track the session close reason
+    session.on(voice.AgentSessionEventTypes.Close, ({ reason }) => {
+      console.log(`[Voice Session Closed] Reason: ${reason}`);
+    });
+
+    await session.start({
+      agent,
+      room: ctx.room,
+      inputOptions: {
+        noiseCancellation: BackgroundVoiceCancellation(),
+      },
+    });
+
+    session.say('Hello, how can I help you today?');
+  },
+});
+
+cli.runApp(new WorkerOptions({ agent: fileURLToPath(import.meta.url) }));