In this article, we are talking about how to configure ASK-CLI to create and manage Alexa skill using Command Line Interface.

The Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ask-cli) is used to create, manage, and deploy Alexa skills from the command line. ASK CLI is a tool for you to manage your Alexa skills and related resources, such as AWS Lambda functions. With ASK CLI, you have access to the Skill Management API, which allows you to manage Alexa skills programmatically from the command line.

Please see the full documentation from ASK CLI quick start guide.

Prerequisites

Before installing ASK CLI, make sure to have the following prerequisites:

• Amazon Developers Account: If you done have Please create an Amazon Developer Account with Amazon Alexa.
• Current release or active LTS version of Node.js: Install the latest version of node https://nodejs.org/en/
• AWS Account: We will user AWS Lambda for skill backend logic, so create an AWS account if you don’t have on yet
• AWS CLI: ASK CLI depends on AWS CLI to upload lambda so we need to install and configure AWS-CLI.

$ pip install awscli

To upgrade the aws cli to the latest version,
$ pip install awscli –upgrade

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