The Cortana Skills Kit is a suite of tools that helps you build custom, intelligent, personalized experiences for your users by empowering Cortana with new capabilities (or skills).
Note: Cortana Skills Kit is currently in public preview.
Cortana skills can be built using the Microsoft Bot Service. The framework enables you to build conversational experiences that support different types of interactions with users. You can design freeform or guided interactions using simple text strings, speech or use complex rich cards that contain text, images, audio and action buttons.
Cortana Skills Kit also enables you to personalize skill experiences for your users by requesting for and leveraging contextual data like the user profile and location information.
- Review the Cortana Skills Kit documentation to get started!
- Refer to the Bot Framework documentation to create great conversational experiences
- .NET and Node.js developers can take advantage of the Bot Builder SDK to start creating Skills
- Use the Azure Free Trial to start free and keep going free - regardless of your subscription type
You can add natural language understanding to your skill by using the Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS), which uses the power of machine learning to help extract meaning from natural language input. A LUIS app takes a user utterance and extracts intents and entities that correspond to activities in your skill.
You can add responsive UI to your skill on devices with screens using Adaptive Cards.
Also check out Question and Answer Maker that converts FAQs into bots in minutes via QNAMaker.
In this repository, you will find task-focused samples to help you build skills for Cortana. There are two areas; Consumer (third party) samples and Enterprise (Azure Active Directory) samples. Note: Enterprise skills tools and support are only offered to partners in Microsoft's Technology Adoption Program.
| Task | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Getting Started | A basic Hello World skill. | View Sample |
| AdaptiveCards Skill | A demo skill showing the Calendar notification card with speech support. | View Sample |
| OAuth V2 | Demonstrate configuration of OAuth to get an Authorization token | View Sample |
| OAuth & Graph | Demonstrate OAuth to Graph connection to get information from Outlook contacts | View Sample |
| V3Patches | Diff files for key Azure portal templates to speak with Cortana | View Patches |
| V4Patches | Diff files for key bot samples to speak with Cortana | View Patches |
| Task | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|
| AdaptiveCards Skill | A demo skill showing the Calendar notification card with speech support. | View Sample |
| OAuth V2 | Demonstrate configuration of OAuth to get an Authorization token | View Sample |
| OAuth & Graph | Demonstrate OAuth to Graph connection to get information from Outlook contactss | View Sample |
| V3Patches | Diff files for key Azure portal templates to speak with Cortana | View Patches |
| V4Patches | Diff files for key bot samples to speak with Cortana | View Patches |
This section is coming soon. Cortana Skills Kit for Enterprise is in the Technology Adoption program. Visit this link for more details.
These resources provide additional information and support for developing Cortana Skills.
| Support type | Contact |
|---|---|
| this repository | use the issues tab |
| Community support on StackOverflow | StackOverflow |
| Community support on MSDN Social | MSDN |
| Bot Builder SDK issues/suggestions | BotBuilder GitHub |
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