Mycroft Skills Repo

Content

• Welcome
  • Available Skills
  • How to Submit a Skill
    • 1) Make a Repo
    • 2) Clone Repo
    • 3) Generate Readme
    • 4) Add Submodule
    • 5) Modify Skills Repo README.md
    • 6) Submit PR (Pull Request)
    • MSM Compliance
  • Community Contributed Skill List

Welcome

The official home of skills for the Mycroft ecosystem. These skills are written by both the MycroftAI team and others within the Community. HTML version of this document

Available Skills

Skill Name	Description "handled phrases"
AIML Fallback	AIML skill by JarbasAI
Alarm	Alarm
Audio Record	Record and Play Audio "record"
Configuration	Update Mycroft configuration "configuration update"
Date Time	Tell the date or time "what time is it"
Desktop Launcher	Open Applications on Desktop "open firefox"
DuckDuckGo	Query DuckDuckGo's Instant Answer API for general questions "what is frankenstein"
Hello World	Hello world and Mycroft manners "how are you"
IP	Check the device's IP Address "what is your ip address"
Joke	Tell jokes "tell me a joke"
Installer	Install skills "install daily meditation" "uninstall skill daily meditation"
Mark-1 Demo	Demonstration of Mark 1 DEMO from the Mark 1 menu
Naptime	Put Mycroft to sleep "go to sleep"
NPR News	Listen to the news from NPR "what's the latest news"
Pairing	Pair Mycroft with home.mycroft.ai "pair my device"
Personal	Learn about Mycroft "what are you"
Playback Control	Control audio subsystem "play", "pause", "next"
Reminder	Reminders to do something "remind me to turn off the oven in 5 minutes"
Speak	Repeat anything "say open source AI"
Singing	Sing a song! "sing a song"
Stock	Stock prices "what is the stock price of Autodesk"
Stop	Stop running skills "stop"
Unknown Fallback	When Mycroft doesn't know an answer or understand a command "green jelly wood"
Version Checker	Find the version of mycroft-core "check version"
Volume	Control Volume "turn up the volume", "mute audio"
Weather	Current Weather and Forecasts "what is the weather"
Wiki	Wikipedia queries "tell me about AI"
Wink IoT	Control lights via a Wink hub "turn on the lights" "dim the kitchen light"
Platform Patch	Patch for official platforms "platform patch"
Mark 1 settings	Control your Mark 1 change eye color to red

How to Submit a Skill

1) Make a Repo

Create the skill in a repo under your own Github user account. You can follow the guide at How To Make a Repo, or use the skiller.sh script.

2) Clone Repo

Clone the mycroft-skills repo to a local directory, How To Clone if you are unfamiliar with the process.

git clone https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-skills.git

3) Generate the README.md

All skills must have a standard README.md. You can use the Meta Editor to create it.

4) Add your Skill as a submodule

Add the your skill to this repo as a submodule. You can type the following in the terminal of within your clone of the mycroft-skills repo.

git submodule add $remote $name-of-your-skill

Where $remote is the git address for your repo (for example "https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-configuration") and $name-your-skill is the name used to install it via MSM or "Hey Mycroft, install ...". The recommended format for skill names is "publisher-descriptive-name", where 'publisher' is a unique name for you or your organization. For example, "penrod-nautical-speed-translator".

When picking a name keep in mind that the installer will match by whole words between the dashes. So if a user says "install speed translator" it will look for all skills in the repo with the words 'speed' AND 'translator'. That means it will find "penrod-nautical-speed-translator" but would not find "abc-nautical-speeds-translator". Make sure the pieces of the name are 'speakable' to allow verbal installs. That means "fubar-v2timer" would be a bad name since you can't speak "v2timer" as a word. A better name would be "fubar-timer-v2" or "fubar-timer-version-2".

The above command should have modified the .gitmodules file and added something similar to the bottom of the file:

+[submodule "NAME-OF-YOUR-SKILL"]
 +	path = YOUR-SKILL-REPO (or any unique path withing the mycroft-skills repo)
 +	url = https://github.com/USERNAME/YOUR-SKILL-REPO.git

For more help, feel free to check out this guide to working with submodules

5) Modify this README.md

Modify the table section below to include the direct link to your repo. Including the break HTML tag and an example phrase or two that trigger your skill:

| :heavy_check_mark:  | [home-assistant](https://github.com/btotharye/mycroft-homeassistant#readme)| Control your devices in home-assistant<br>```turn on office``` |

Chose an appropriate status icon from the list below:

Status:
✔️ good working order
🚧 still being developed and not ready for general use (for reference/collaboration)
❓ untested (by us)
💀 Broken, but good for ideas!

6) Submit a PR (Pull Request)

Once you've got your local version of the repo organized properly, submit a PR.

MSM Compliance

To make your skill capable of being installed via MSM (the Mycroft Skill Manager) you can include two additional files.

requirements.txt

A list of all Python modules which must be installed for it to work. These will be installed via the Python PIP utility

requirements.sh

A script to run that will perform any additional steps needed to prepare the system for your skill. This can include package installations.

Status meaning:
✔️ good working order
🚧 still being developed and not ready for general use (for reference/collaboration)
❓ untested (by us)
💀 Broken, but good for ideas!

For an example pull request , check out this PR

Community Contributed Skill List

When submitting a skill make sure skill name links to main repo for the skill, we are doing away with wiki pages. Also please include the phrase to trigger on as well for your skill.

Status	Skill Name	Description "phrase to trigger"
✔️	AVmusic	Lets the user request playback of any music or video available. Version 1.0 "AVmusic play chopin"
✔️	Australian news	Play ABC news from Australia "Play Australian news"
✔️	AutoGUI	Manipulate your mouse and keyboard with Mycroft
✔️	Basic help	Get basic Mycroft questions and help answered "where is the documentation", "how do I install from source"
✔️	Caffeine Wiz	Provides the caffeine content of various drinks on request. what's caffeine content of *drink*?
✔️	Coin flip	Flip a virtual coin
✔️	Deutschland Funk	Listen to Deutschlandfunk and query schedule
✔️	Federal Closings	List Federal Government Closings "are there federal closings?"
✔️	Home Assistant	Control your devices in home-assistant "turn on office"
✔️	Pandora	Play Pandora stations via Pianobar
✔️	Ping	Pings websites and responds with latency time
✔️	Radio RNE	Spanish news radio Radio Nacional de Espa?a RNE.
✔️	Timer	Set a timer on your device set a timer for 30 minutes
✔️	Internet Radio	Listen to Internet Radio internet radio
✔️	Number Generator	Mycroft will pick a random number pick a number
✔️	Bitcoin price	Check the price of bitcoin what is the bitcoin price?
✔️	ESP8266	Communicate with an ESP8266 in the context of home automation. Turn on the lamp
🚧	Brain	Chain intents and provide some services
🚧	Calculator	Conversation-based calculator. Do some math
🚧	DeepDream	Add Deepdreaming image converstion to Mycroft
🚧	Dice roll	Roll dice spoken in RPG notation.
🚧	Facebook	Generate posts for Facebook
🚧	Facebook marketing	Work with Facebook Marketing API
🚧	GPIO example	Example of using the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi to blink an LED
🚧	MiLight	Lighting control using MiLight
🚧	Mopidy and BT lights	Remote control of BT lights and Mopidy music playback
🚧	Mosquito speak	Allow Mycroft to notify you on events, by speaking text received on a mqtt bus.
🚧	Objective	Register objectives almost the same has an intent would be registered with ObjectiveBuilder class
🚧	OpenHAB	Add Openhab support to Mycroft
🚧	Read article	Scrapes text from online articles and reads them to you.
🚧	Sentiment analysis	Sentiment analysis
🚧	The Cows Lists	Interact with "Remember The Milk" list and task management ecosystem. "add milk to my grocery list"
🚧	Wallpaper	Download wallpapers from reddit and changes randomly
🚧	Whats Nearby	Search for nearby Places for Mycroft on Plasma (Search For Resturants, Hotels, Parks etc) "search for nearby bars/pubs/parks/hospitals/etc"
🚧	Kickstarter Tracker	Track the pledge amount of a project on Kickstarter "track mycroft on kickstarter"
🚧	Wifi management	Various options for interacting with WiFi
❓	Amarok media player control	Player controls for the Amarok Media Player "amarok play/stop/next/previous music"
❓	Angry Beanie podcast	Query and play Angry Beanie Podcasts "Get Angry Beanie shows"
❓	Plasma audio control	Audio control for Plasma Desktop "increase volume to maximum", "decrease microphone to minimum volume"
❓	Bioinformatics	Add Bio-Linux Commands to Mycroft
❓	Bitcoin	Check the price of bitcoin
❓	CBC news	Fetch CBC News Podcast
❓	Clarifai image recognition	Image recognition based on clarifai "search image url [imagelocation]"
❓	Clementine player	Control your clementine-player localy. A fork from amarok-player.
❓	Cleverbot	Cleverbot API fallback
❓	Daily Meditation	Play your Daily Meditation from the Meditation Podcast
❓	Diagnostics	Diagnostic tools (CPU %age, free space, etc)
❓	Domoticz	Integrate Mycroft with Domoticz
❓	Drive servos	Control Hacked-Servo-Engines to make your Mycroft move around
❓	Earth orbit pic	Earth orbit picture skill
❓	Feedback	Trigger positive feedback intent -> calls feedback method on last active skill
❓	Fox newsskill	Fetch Fox News Podcast
❓	Google Calendar	Check and add google calendar events
❓	Gmail	Get email from your Gmail Inbox
❓	Google image search	Search Google images and display
❓	Google translate	Translate English phrases into other languages
❓	Hue	Control your Phillips Hue lights
❓	IR Send	Control devices via lirc's irsend
❓	JB podcasts	Play podcasts from Jupiter Broadcasting shows
❓	KDE Kate control	Kate Editor control skill "new document, close document, goto next/previous tabs/views"
❓	KDE Krunner search	Search local KDE desktop for files, images, recent documents, bookmarks "search this computer for [any keyword]"
❓	Kodi cadair	Kodi playback and search
❓	Kodi cbenning	Control a local or remote Kodi instance
❓	Kodi k3yb0ardn1nja	Play or pause a Kodi video
❓	Let's talk	More salutations
❓	Lottery	Reads Euromillion Lottery Numbers
❓	Media console control	Add media controls that are mapped to console commands
❓	Metal band	Recommend a metal band and gives basic information
❓	Mopidy	Mopidy-based players for local music, Google Music, and Spotify
❓	Movie recommendation-skill	Recomend a movie
❓	MPD control	Control media players that use the MPD protocol to play found local music
❓	MQTT	Control IoT devices (home automation) using MQTT protocol
❓	Mute skill	Mute Mycroft until re-enabled
❓	NASA picture of the day	NASA picture of the day from the NASA API
❓	Nature Sounds	Play relaxing nature sounds recorded at various locations play [river/thunderstorm/songbird]
❓	Near Earth orbit	Near Earth orbit alert skill via the NASA API
❓	Photolocation	Searches wikimedia for photos of location
❓	Pickup line	Responds with random nerdy pick-up lines
❓	Plasma activities	Integrate Plasma 5 Activities with Mycroft "show activities / switch activity [name]"
❓	Plasma Mycroft plasmoid control	Control the Mycroft Plasmoid "show mycroft applet / display skills page"
❓	Plasma send SMS	Send SMS through KDE Plasma "send a sms"
❓	Plasma user control	Add Plasma User control to Mycroft, allowing switch user, logout, and lock screen "switch user/logout/lock screen"
❓	Poetry	Read poetry based on Hidden Markov Models
❓	Proxy scrape	Scrape proxies from the internet
❓	Pushbullet	Send messsages and photos using Pushbullet
❓	Pushetta	Add push notifications
❓	Quodlibet	Control Quod Libet music playback
❓	Random quote	Random quotes,random facts about numbers, and your time left to live
❓	RATP timetables	Access schedules for the RATP Network of trains and buses in Paris
❓	RSS	Fetch from RSS feed
❓	Spaceflight schedule	Check when the next space flight launch is scheduled
❓	Spacelaunch	Check when the next space launch is scheduled
❓	Speedtest	Run a speedtest
❓	Slack	Post and listen to Slack messages.
❓	Sunspot	Answer questions on daily sunspots
❓	Sun	Respond with sunrise and set times
❓	System	System controls like shutdown and reboot
❓	Take picture	Take pictures using the Raspberry Pi Camera
❓	Traffic	Commute time from Google distance matrix api
❓	White House Adventure	Play the old text adventure Zork 1
❓	Unsplash wallpaper-plasma-skill	Change KDE Desktop wallpaper by category type from unsplash "change wallpaper type [nature\abstract\any]"
❓	WEMO	Control WEMO devices with Mycroft
❓	Wiki fact scraper	Scrape random facts from Wikipedia and store locally
❓	Youtube	Search and listen to a Youtube video
❓	Release test	Test a mycroft release
💀	Enhanced Bitcoin	Enhanced bitcoin from api.bitcoinaverage.com