Sample Skill - Sauce Boss

Welcome! You too can be a “sauce boss” with the help of the sauce boss skill! OK, just kidding, maybe. This sample skill use a how-to or recipe use case to demonstrate the Alexa Presentation Language (APL). Ask for a sauce and you’ll be provided with an image and recipe description for the sauce of your choice.

Prerequisites

• An Alexa Developer Account (sign up here: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit)
• (Optional) An AWS Account (sign up here: https://aws.amazon.com)
• (Optional) An Amazon Echo Device with a screen (e.g. Amazon Echo Show)

Note: The AWS Account is optional because you can create this sample as an Alexa Hosted skill. The Echo Show is optional because you can see the display in the simulator.

Brief Steps

Note: The below steps assume you have general familiarity with how to use the Alexa Developer Console. If you’ve never created a skill before, check out the fact skill tutorial to get the feel for it.

Note: if you’re using the ASK CLI, the fastest way to try this skill out is to issue these commands:

  ask new --url https://github.com/alexa/skill-sample-python-sauce-boss.git --skill-name sauce-boss
  cd sauce-boss
  ask deploy

1. From the Alexa Developer Console create a new skill.
   1. Name the skill whatever you want, but we recommend Sauce Boss!
   2. Choose the language model you want to use, as long as as it is English (US) which corresponds to en-US. The skill is i18n-ready. (Hint, hint…)
   3. Choose the Custom interaction model.
   4. Choose Alexa-Hosted (Python).
2. It may take a minute, but when your skill is ready, go to the JSON Editor section and replace all the contents with the interaction model from here that matches the locale you chose in the previous step. Click Save Model.

Back-end code is inside the lambda folder and the apl documents are in the lambda\documents

1. Save and Deploy the Code
2. Click on the Test tab, enable the skill and check it out. Phrases you can try include:
   • open sauce boss (or whatever invocation name you used)
   • show me the recipe for tartar sauce

License

This library is licensed under the Amazon Software License.