Allow development skills to be used in routines.
Allow development skills to be used in routines. If we develop a skill, and haven't published it yet, but it is enable and active on our devices then we should be able to use it within a routine (obviously on our own devices).

26 comments
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Vincent Desoutter commented
I want that feature as well!!
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Wesley Fisher commented
I agree this needs to be a thing. I have all kinds of ideas that are only relevant to me
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C E Richens commented
I really need this too. the only way to publish a private skill is with a business Alexa account which I don't want or have.
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Michele Bruni commented
I also need this for some personal use skills that interact with smart home devices
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Frans jansen commented
yes, I need it also
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Frans jansen commented
yes I need it also
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Carlis Burns commented
Most have unpublished skills they use for 'at home use only'. Would love a way for routines to run those skills.
This would open many avenues for people:
Routine:
at 8pm - run Mytask skill
"Today is Thursday, did you take out the trash?"....Yes
"Did you remember to water the plants?"....No
"Would you like me to remind you again in a hour?"....Yes
"Okay, I'll remind you in an hour to water the plants."Just an example, but it would be nice to use skills in development.
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tt commented
yes I need
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Abdulrazzak Taylor commented
We can already use the skill on the device. Don't see why we can't use it on a routine. A lot of developers want to do personalized apps for themselves and not for the community. Makes no sense that we have to publish it.
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abdul bashir commented
I need this
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Mike Watson commented
+1
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西角恵輔 commented
Definitely useful for a routine like 'Good morning Alexa' to add my custom skills. Please add it
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Fabrizio Carimati commented
Please, i need this.
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Pradeep Elavarasan commented
Yeah, this will be really useful as we can have custom skills in our routines.
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Aude Naveilhan commented
Yes please moreover with Alexa Blueprints we can create private skills so it would be great to be able to use them in our routines, please make it happen !!
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津村章大 commented
I really need this too !
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Frank Parrish commented
Please implement this feature! Thank you.
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Akram Khan commented
This would be really useful and stop many many mediocre skills being published that very few people other than the developer care about
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BigMikeSK commented
This is must have feature! Please, implement it. Thank you.
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Lir commented
I need this.
If this possible, Alexa skill development will be more invigorated.