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Amazon Alexa Skill Builder

Guides building Alexa voice skills and AWS-backed Alexa integrations, including Claude as the assistant's brain.

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sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills
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MIT
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2 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent gets a guide for building voice apps for Amazon Alexa (called Alexa skills, a different concept from this agent skill) and connecting them to AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Polly, Transcribe, Lex and smart home integration. The main SKILL.md is short and mostly defers to a longer reference guide that holds the procedure, prerequisites and validation steps. The example emphasises testing in the Alexa simulator and keeping smart home control disabled until account linking and device ownership checks pass.

Great for

  • Developers building a custom Alexa voice skill who want step-by-step help with the AWS side
  • Hobbyists experimenting with running Claude as the brain behind an Alexa device
  • Teams prototyping read-only voice intents before adding smart home control

Skip it if

  • Non-developers who just want to use Alexa; this does not change how an Alexa speaker works (the skill would need code and AWS setup to matter)
  • Production smart home control without expert review, since the skill is marked critical risk and its guidance is generic in the main file
  • Anyone without an AWS account or authorised test accounts, because the workflow depends on them

Try asking

  • “Help me design an Alexa custom skill with an intent that reads back my notes, tested in the ASK simulator”
  • “Walk me through connecting an Alexa skill to a Lambda function and DynamoDB table”
  • “Set up account linking for a smart home skill, with device ownership checks before enabling control”
  • “Explain how to route Alexa speech through Amazon Transcribe or Lex”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Amazon Alexa Skill BuilderInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    amazon-alexa.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip amazon-alexa.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip amazon-alexa.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Start with a read-only intent on a test account and verify it in the ASK simulator before deploying anything
  • Keep smart home control disabled until account linking and device ownership are confirmed, and never use production credentials in prompts
  • Read the detailed guide in full for end-to-end work, and check the AWS and Alexa documentation for current API details since this skill's text is generic

What's inside

  • references/detailed-guide.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.