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This tutorial will walk first-time Alexa skills developers through all the required steps involved in creating a parameter-based skill using a template called ‘Minecraft Helper’. Ask how to craft an item, and this skill will give you instructions.

Build An Alexa How-To Skill

This tutorial will walk first-time Alexa skills developers through all the required steps involved in creating a skill using a template called ‘Minecraft Helper’. Ask how to craft an item in the game Minecraft, and this skill will give you instructions.

Skill Architecture

Each skill consists of two basic parts, a front end and a back end. The front end is the voice interface, or VUI. The voice interface is configured through the voice interaction model. The back end is where the logic of your skill resides.

Three Options for Skill Setup

There are a number of different ways for you to setup your skill, depending on your experience and what tools you have available.

If this is your first skill, choose the Alexa-Hosted backend instructions to get started quickly.
If you want to manage the backend resources in your own AWS account, you can follow the AWS-Hosted instructions.
Developers with the ASK Command Line Interface configured may follow the ASK CLI instructions.

Additional Resources

Community

Amazon Developer Forums - Join the conversation!
Hackster.io - See what others are building with Alexa.

Tutorials & Guides

Voice Design Guide - A great resource for learning conversational and voice user interface design.
Codecademy: Learn Alexa - Learn how to build an Alexa Skill from within your browser with this beginner friendly tutorial on Codecademy!

Documentation

skill-sample-nodejs-fact

Build An Alexa Fact Skill

alexa-smarthome

Resources for Alexa Smart Home developers.

skill-sample-nodejs-adventure-game

This tool provides an easy to use front-end that allows developers to instantly deploy code for your story, or use the generated code as a starting point for more complex projects.

skill-sample-nodejs-audio-player

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to play long form audio in 3P-skills

skill-sample-nodejs-quiz-game

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a quiz game skill.

skill-sample-nodejs-trivia

skill-sample-nodejs-hello-world

skill-sample-nodejs-city-guide

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a skill featuring a single city's landmarks and news.

skill-sample-nodejs-decision-tree

An Alexa Skill Sample that progresses through a series of questions and then provides a career suggestion. Demonstrates an 'expert system' approach as opposed to a 'branching tree' approach.

skill-sample-python-first-skill

This Alexa Skills Kit sample skill shows how to build a simple skill called Cake Time that counts down the number of days until the customer's birthday.

skill-sample-python-fact

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a fact skill in Python.

skill-sample-nodejs-zero-to-hero

Support code for "Zero to Hero": A comprehensive course to building an Alexa Skill

skill-sample-nodejs-feed

An Alexa Skill Template to help create skills that read RSS/Atom feeds.

skill-sample-nodejs-highlowgame

The high low game is a game where the player tries to guess the target number. After each incorrect guess, the player is informed if the target number is higher or lower than their current guess. This continues until the target number is guessed or the player gives up. This sample Alexa Skill is written in Node.js and demonstrates the use of session and persistent attributes.

skill-sample-nodejs-petmatch

This Alexa Skill Kit sample shows how to build a skill using Dialog Management and Entity Resolution.

Alexa-Gadgets-Raspberry-Pi-Samples

This repository enables you to prototype an Alexa Gadget using Raspberry Pi. It includes Python-based software, sample projects, and step-by-step instructional guides that walk you through how to use key features of the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit to create new, engaging customer interactions with gadget devices.

skill-sample-python-helloworld-classes

This tutorial will walk first-time Alexa skills developers through all the required steps involved in creating a skill using this hello world template, called ‘hello world’. This post assumes you have some familiarity with Python (or a similar programming language) and the Alexa Skills Kit.

skill-sample-node-device-address-api

This is a sample skill written in JavaScript that demonstrates how to use device ID and the API endpoint values to make a request to the Alexa Device Address API.

skill-sample-python-quiz-game

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a quiz game skill in Python.

skill-sample-nodejs-fact-in-skill-purchases

Demonstrates how to use the new in-skill purchasing (ISP) features of Alexa skills by offering different packs of facts behind a purchase, and a subscription to unlock all of the packs at once

skill-sample-python-audio-player

This project demonstrates the use of Alexa Audio Player for skills, using the ASK Python SDK

skill-sample-nodejs-smarthome-switch

This is a basic Alexa Smart Home skill sample that implements a virtual switch. It shows the discovery and directive handling process for a virtual device implementing Alexa Smart Home switch capabilities.

skill-sample-nodejs-team-lookup

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a team lookup skill.

skill-sample-nodejs-first-skill

This Alexa Skills Kit sample skill shows how to build a simple skill called Cake Time that counts down the number of days until the customer's birthday.

skill-sample-python-smarthome-switch

This is a basic Alexa Smart Home skill sample that implements a virtual switch. It shows the discovery and directive handling process for a virtual device implementing Alexa Smart Home switch capabilities.

skill-sample-nodejs-the-foodie

This Alexa Skills Kit sample shows how to build a conversational skill.

skill-sample-csharp-fact

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a fact skill in C#.

Alexa-Gadgets-Embedded-Sample-Code

C sample code for assisting developers to develop Alexa Gadgets for embedded platforms

skill-sample-nodejs-web-api-my-cactus

skill-sample-nodejs-test-automation

This sample skill demonstrates how to automate testing an Alexa Skill.

skill-sample-nodejs-buttons-trivia

This is a sample trivia skill that will allow developers to get a head start on their trivia games using Echo Buttons. It allows for roll-call of the players, asking trivia questions, and determining whether the voice inputs matched the answers.

skill-sample-nodejs-salesforce

This project demonstrates how to build an Alexa private skill that integrates with your Salesforce data, utilizing account linking and a personal voice code.

skill-sample-nodejs-responsive-layouts

Alexa Presentation Language (APL) tutorial skill demonstrate Alexa Responsive Components and Responsive Templates and how to use them. Simply open the skill and follow the instructions from there.

alexa-oauth-sample

A sample code for Alexa Skill developers to set up an OAuth 2.0 server.

skill-sample-java-quiz-game

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a skill using V2 of the Java SDK

skill-sample-python-city-guide

This Alexa sample skill is a template for a basic city-guide skill. Provided some data about a city's restaurants, attractions, Alexa will recommend a restaurant based on the meal type or recommend an attraction. It can also suggest the current temperature and weather conditions of the city.

skill-sample-python-smarthome-sandbox

This is Alexa skill sample code for showing how several areas of a Smart Home model come together to define and provide endpoint devices using Lambda, IoT Core, DynamoDB, and API Gateway services.

skill-sample-nodejs-college-finder

This is a complex Node.js sample skill with examples of DynamoDB integration, display templates, dialog management, state management, contextual help and errors, and entity resolution.

skill-sample-python-petmatch

Pet Match matches the user with a pet. When launched, this Alexa Skill will prompt the user for the information it needs to determine a match. Once all of the required information is collected, it will send the data to an external web service which processes the data and returns the match. Through this workshop, you will learn how to use advanced Alexa Skills Kit features to create and configure an Alexa Skill and AWS Lambda.

skill-sample-nodejs-berry-bash

Demonstrates the use of interactive render template directives through multi modal screen design.

skill-sample-java-fact

An Alexa Skill Sample to demonstrate how to write skills for Echo Show and Echo Spot in Java using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) SDK v2

alexa-guided-walkthrough-using-node-sdk

Code walkthrough guides to show the ins and outs of the new SDK by providing a step-by-step code overview of the new features. We will also build a new skill from scratch, bit by bit, as we progress through the series.

skill-sample-python-trivia

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a trivia skill in Python. (This sample does not use the beta version of the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python.)

alexa-video-multimodal

This repository contains sample code and reference materials for Alexa Video Skills for Echo Show. For technical issues using this repository please reach out to https://forums.developer.amazon.com/spaces/232/video-skills-kit-vsk.html or through https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/contact-us

skill-sample-nodejs-first-apl-skill

This Alexa Skills Kit sample skill extends the original simple skill that counts down the number of days until the customers birthday with visuals using Alexa Presentation Language.

skill-sample-python-howto

This tutorial will walk first-time Alexa skills developers through allthe required steps involved in creating a parameter-based skill using atemplate called ‘Minecraft Helper’. Ask how to craft an item in thegame Minecraft, and this skill will give you instructions.

alexa-presentation-language-apl-button-and-voice-interactivty-demo

skill-sample-python-highlowgame

The high low game is a game where the player tries to guess the target number between 1 to 100. After each incorrect guess, the player is informed if the target number is higher or lower than their current guess. This continues until the target number is guessed or the player gives up. This sample Alexa Skill is written in Python and demonstrates the use of session and persistent attributes.

skill-sample-nodejs-buttons-colorchanger

Color Changer buttons skill opens with buttons roll call and asks the user to push buttons to change their colors with various animations. It covers roll call, starting and stopping the Input Handler, and defining animations for different button events. It also demonstrates how Echo Buttons can interrupt text-to-speech (TTS).

skill-sample-nodejs-premium-hello-world

An Alexa sample skill that demonstrates how to use In-Skill Purchasing (ISP) features by offering a "Greetings Pack” and a “Premium Subscription that greets the customer in a variety of languages in different accents using Amazon Polly.

skill-sample-csharp-smarthome-switch

This is a basic Alexa Smart Home skill sample that implements a virtual switch. It shows the discovery and directive handling process for a virtual device implementing Alexa Smart Home switch capabilities.

skill-sample-nodejs-linked-profile

Sample custom skill which demonstrates account linking. The linked accounts are from an Amazon Cognito user pool.

skill-sample-python-helloworld-decorators

This tutorial will walk first-time Alexa skills developers through all the required steps involved in creating a skill using this hello world template, called ‘hello world’. This post assumes you have some familiarity with Python (or a similar programming language) and the Alexa Skills Kit. This tutorial provides an alternate way to build Alexa skills using python decorators. If you are interested in developing skills using classes, please look at the skill-sample-python-helloworld-classes sample.

skill-sample-python-fact-in-skill-purchases

Demonstrates how to use the new in-skill purchasing (ISP) features of Alexa skills by offering different packs of facts behind a purchase, and a subscription to unlock all of the packs at once.

skill-sample-java-smarthome-switch

This is a basic Alexa Smart Home skill sample that implements a virtual switch. It shows the discovery and directive handling process for a virtual device implementing Alexa Smart Home switch capabilities.

skill-sample-controls-fruit-shop

alexa-skills-kit-intent-validator

This package provides a stub lambda function to use to test your Alexa interaction model from your Alexa-enabled device.

skill-sample-nodejs-buttons-hellobuttons

Hello World buttons skill opens with buttons roll call and asks the user to push two buttons. On button one press, she changes the color to red and on button two press she changes the color to blue. Then closes. This skill demonstrates how to send directives to, and receive events from, Echo Buttons.

skill-sample-csharp-quiz-game

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a quiz game skill in C#.

skill-sample-python-colorpicker

The color picker skill is a simple skill where alexa asks you to pick a color and responds back with the color you chose, when you ask it what is your favorite color. This sample Alexa Skill is written in Python and demonstrates the use of session attributes.

skill-sample-nodejs-facts-aws-microservice

skill-sample-controls-hello-world

alexa-sample-fire-tv-app-only-integration

skill-sample-nodejs-name-the-show

A sample skill which demonstrates the use of the consumable type of in-skill purchasing (ISP) within an Alexa skill. Search github.com/alexa for samples with other types of in-skill purchases.

skill-sample-smarthome-fireplace-python

An Alexa skill that simulates a virtual fireplace to illustrate the Alexa Smart Home Skill APIs.

community-templates

skill-sample-plant-care-widget

Sample Skill for Alexa Widget

skill-sample-nodejs-pet-tales

This sample shows how to build a skill with APL and APL for Audio

skill-sample-nodejs-multi

This is an Alexa skill sample that shows how to handle both custom and smart home requests for a skill that supports both models. It shows the discovery and request/response handling of a skill implementing Alexa custom and smart home capabilities

alexa-salesforce-notes-sample

This skill demonstrates how to build a private Alexa skill to access Salesforce data. This skill identifies a given opportunity then tracks a series of statements that a user gives, then posts those either as a note or as a Chatter post.

skill-sample-nodejs-web-api-hello-world

This is minimal sample of using the Alexa Web API for Games feature

alexa-skills-cicd-pipeline

A sample CICD Deployment Pipeline for your Alexa Skills, using AWS CDK, CodeBuild and CodePipeline

skill-sample-java-premium-hello-world

An Alexa sample skill in Java that demonstrates how to use In-Skill Purchasing (ISP) features by offering a "Greetings Pack” and a “Premium Subscription" that greets the customer in a variety of languages in different accents using Amazon Polly.

skill-sample-java-city-guide

This Alexa sample skill is a template for a basic city-guide skill. Provided some data about a city's restaurants, attractions, Alexa will recommend a restaurant based on the meal type or recommend an attraction. It can also suggest the current temperature and weather conditions of the city. This sample Alexa Skill is written in Java and demonstrates the use of external API calls and localization for multiple locale.

skill-sample-python-sauce-boss

Learn how to build a multimodal skill with APL.

skill-sample-nodejs-cloudformation-guide

Intro and sample projects for Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) CLI's AWS CloudFormation deployer

skill-sample-nodejs-trivia-pal

Alexa Skill Sample to learn how to use advanced dialog management. It creates a trivia dynamically from an array of questions and answers

skill-sample-node-js-build-scale-test

An Alexa skill sample based the fact skill to demonstrate load testing.

skill-sample-java-how-to

This tutorial will walk first-time Alexa skills developers through all the required steps involved in creating a parameter-based skill using a template called ‘Minecraft Helper’. Ask how to craft an item in the game Minecraft, and this skill will give you instructions. This sample Alexa Skill is written in Java and demonstrates the use of localization for multiple locales.

skill-sample-nodejs-demo-store-amazon-pay

This demo store showcases how to integrate Amazon Pay into your shopping experiences on Alexa.

skill-sample-csharp-trivia

An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to build a trivia skill in C Sharp

skill-sample-nodejs-alexa-conversations-weather-bot

skill-sample-nodejs-alexa-conversations-pet-match

This skill was built with Alexa Conversations and recommends dogs through a multi-turn conversation.

alexa-smart-home-e2e-solution-workshop

ama-sample-client

Alexa Mobile Accessory (AMA) Sample Client

skill-sample-python-send-change-report

skill-sample-acdl-flightsearch-tutorial

skill-sample-python-multi

apl-video-demo

skill-sample-nodejs-shopping-actions

Sample skill with handlers for the Add to Cart and Buy Product actions in the Alexa Shopping Actions feature.

skill-sample-java-highlowgame

The high low game is a game where the player tries to guess the target number between 1 to 100. After each incorrect guess, the player is informed if the target number is higher or lower than their current guess. This continues until the target number is guessed or the player gives up. This sample Alexa Skill is written in Java and demonstrates the use of session and persistent attributes.

skill-sample-nodejs-multistream-audio-player

skill-sample-nodejs-gift-idea

Alexa Skill Sample to learn how to use advanced dialog management

progressive-response-demo

reminders-demo

error-notification-sample-skill

alexa-samples-pin-confirmation

This sample demonstrate how to use new Pin Confirmation feature of Alexa skills to inform user to provide voice pin to proceed further with skill functionality.

skill-sample-python-buttons-hellobuttons

This is a sample skill used to show 3P developers how to develop for Echo Buttons. It is the exact same functionality as the existing alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-buttons-hellobuttons except this one is written using the Python ASK SDK.

skill-sample-python-intro-to-alexa-conversations

amazon-kendra-skill-sample-python