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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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  • Dave Curley commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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 I've tried it with several unpublished skills in Dev only, including some in beta and others not.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".

  • Wesley Fisher commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

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

  • C E Richens commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

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

  • Carlis Burns commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Most have unpublished skills they use for 'at home use only'.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

  • Abdulrazzak Taylor commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

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

  • Aude Naveilhan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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 !!

  • Akram Khan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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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