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Amazon Alexa ACTION

Simulate Alexa Skill

Simulate a dialog from an Alexa-enabled device and receive the skill response for the specified example utterance. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • Destructive
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Amazon Alexa account once, then configure and run Simulate Alexa Skill from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "amazon_alexa-simulate-skill",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    amazon_alexa: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    skillId: "Skill ID",
    stage: "Stage",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Simulate Alexa Skill inputs
Property Type Description
skillId Skill ID string
The unique identifier for the Alexa skill
Required
stage Stage string
The stage of the skill, such as development or live
Required
content Input Content string
Utterance text from a user to Alexa.
Required
locale Device Locale string
Locale for the virtual device used in the simulation.
Required

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
amazon_alexa-simulate-skill
Version
0.0.2
App
Amazon Alexa
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
Yes
Open world
Yes