diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9ef49df0..3cd8f588 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ and this project adheres to
 - ✨(frontend) introduce an "unauthenticated" participant badge
 - ✨(backend) add roomkit viewset to start a room without WebRTC join
 - ✨(frontend) let users set default configuration for generated links
+- ✨(frontend) expose media state to external gateways
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/src/frontend/src/features/rooms/livekit/components/MediaStateObserver.tsx b/src/frontend/src/features/rooms/livekit/components/MediaStateObserver.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..63ffc518
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/frontend/src/features/rooms/livekit/components/MediaStateObserver.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import { useLocalParticipant } from '@livekit/components-react'
+import { useEffect } from 'react'
+
+export const MEDIA_STATE_ELEMENT_ID = 'media-state'
+export const MEDIA_STATE_CHANGED_EVENT = 'media-state-changed'
+
+export type MediaStateChangedDetail = {
+  microphoneEnabled: boolean
+  cameraEnabled: boolean
+}
+
+/**
+ * Exposes the local participant's media state in the DOM so external tools
+ * (e.g. bots automating the frontend) can reliably read the microphone and
+ * camera state, and watch for changes with a MutationObserver:
+ *
+ * const el = document.getElementById('media-state')
+ * new MutationObserver(...).observe(el, { attributes: true })
+ */
+export const MediaStateObserver = () => {
+  const { isMicrophoneEnabled, isCameraEnabled } = useLocalParticipant()
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    window.dispatchEvent(
+      new CustomEvent<MediaStateChangedDetail>(MEDIA_STATE_CHANGED_EVENT, {
+        detail: {
+          microphoneEnabled: isMicrophoneEnabled,
+          cameraEnabled: isCameraEnabled,
+        },
+      })
+    )
+  }, [isMicrophoneEnabled, isCameraEnabled])
+
+  return (
+    <div
+      id={MEDIA_STATE_ELEMENT_ID}
+      style={{ display: 'none' }}
+      data-microphone-enabled={isMicrophoneEnabled ? 'true' : 'false'}
+      data-camera-enabled={isCameraEnabled ? 'true' : 'false'}
+    />
+  )
+}
diff --git a/src/frontend/src/features/rooms/livekit/prefabs/VideoConference.tsx b/src/frontend/src/features/rooms/livekit/prefabs/VideoConference.tsx
index c28981dc..a92e0289 100644
--- a/src/frontend/src/features/rooms/livekit/prefabs/VideoConference.tsx
+++ b/src/frontend/src/features/rooms/livekit/prefabs/VideoConference.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { SidePanel } from '../components/SidePanel'
 import { RecordingProvider } from '@/features/recording'
 import { ScreenShareErrorModal } from '../components/ScreenShareErrorModal'
 import { ConnectionObserver } from '../components/ConnectionObserver'
+import { MediaStateObserver } from '../components/MediaStateObserver'
 import { RoomMetadataSynchronizer } from '../components/RoomMetadataSynchronizer'
 import { useRoomPageTitle } from '../hooks/useRoomPageTitle'
 import { useNoiseReduction } from '../hooks/useNoiseReduction'
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ export function VideoConference({ ...props }: VideoConferenceProps) {
     <>
       <RoomMetadataSynchronizer />
       <ConnectionObserver />
+      <MediaStateObserver />
       <ChatProvider />
       <VideoResolutionSubscription />
       <div