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Validate the Skill manifest endpoint

• To validate your Skill is deployed and working open up a browser window and navigate to your deployed Skill manifest (/api/skill/manifest endpoint). e.g. http://localhost:3978/api/skill/manifest

Adding your Skill to an assistant

To add your new Skill to your assistant/Bot we provide a botskills command line tool to automate the process of adding the Skill to your dispatch model and creating authentication connections where needed.

Run the following command from a command prompt within the directory of your assistant/Bot.

botskills connect --botName YOUR_BOT_NAME --remoteManifest "http://<YOUR_SKILL_MANIFEST>.azurewebsites.net/api/skill/manifest" --luisFolder "<YOUR-SKILL_PATH>/Deployment/Resources/LU/en/" --ts

See the Adding Skills for more detail on how to add skills.