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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).

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Launched  ·  AdminAlexa Admin (Alexa Admin, Amazon Alexa Skills) responded  · 

Thank you for submitting an Alexa Skills Feature Request. We are happy to inform you that the feature you have requested has launched! You can add the development version of a skill as the "action" for a routine. For more information, please refer to the document here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G2PYLKJN3XVZ55EQ

If you have further questions regarding routines, they would be best directed to our customer support team. They're available via e-mail, phone or live chat and their contact details can be found here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/contact-us

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  • Gabriel commented  ·   ·  Report

    Skills to be used in routines!!! This is a Discrimination!!!!

  • 1natsu commented  ·   ·  Report

    i need this.

  • Dave Curley commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is working for me so possibly fixed. I've tried it with several unpublished skills in Dev only, including some in beta and others not. In the routine I just have a single "Customised" action of: "open INVOCATION_NAME".

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Currently, only published skills can be invoked from routines. This creates difficulties in skills testing because it is impossible to test how a skill will behave being invoked from a routine. It would be easier if a routine will be able to invoke a skill in published and developing mode as well.

  • Wesley Fisher commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree this needs to be a thing. I have all kinds of ideas that are only relevant to me

  • C E Richens commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Michele Bruni commented  ·   ·  Report

    I also need this for some personal use skills that interact with smart home devices

  • Carlis Burns commented  ·   ·  Report

    Most have unpublished skills they use for 'at home use only'.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.

  • tt commented  ·   ·  Report

    yes I need

  • Abdulrazzak Taylor commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • 西角恵輔 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Definitely useful for a routine like 'Good morning Alexa' to add my custom skills. Please add it

  • Pradeep Elavarasan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah, this will be really useful as we can have custom skills in our routines.

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