Alexa Skill

An Alexa Skill is a voice-driven capability for Amazon Alexa, built with the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK). osls can wire an alexaSkill event to a Lambda function so that Alexa invokes the function to handle requests from your skill.

Simple event definition

This definition will enable your Lambda function to be called by an Alexa Skill kit.

amzn1.ask.skill.xx-xx-xx-xx-xx is an example skill ID for the Alexa Skills kit. You will receive a skill ID once you register and create a skill in the Amazon Developer Console. After deploying, add your deployed Lambda function ARN associated with this event to the Service Endpoint under Configuration on your Amazon Developer Console.

functions:
  mySkill:
    handler: mySkill.handler
    events:
      - alexaSkill: amzn1.ask.skill.xx-xx-xx-xx-xx

You can find detailed guides on how to create an Alexa Skill with osls using Node.js here as well as in combination with Python here.

Enabling / Disabling

Note: alexaSkill events are enabled by default.

This will create and attach a disabled alexaSkill event for the mySkill function. If enabled is set to true, the attached alexaSkill will execute the function.

functions:
  mySkill:
    handler: mySkill.handler
    events:
      - alexaSkill:
          appId: amzn1.ask.skill.xx-xx-xx-xx
          enabled: false

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