Mycroft Skills Manager

Mycroft Skills Manager (msm) is a command line tool used to add, manage and remove Skills on any Mycroft installation.
Mycroft Skills Manager (MSM) is a command line tool used to add, manage and remove Skills on any Mycroft installation. It can install any Skill listed on the Mycroft Skills Repository or from any Github repository. msm is a handy tool for Developers and those who may frequently reconfigure, install and uninstall Skills.
Using Mycroft Skills Manager
msm has recently been rewritten in Python (msm was previously a bash script). In order to use msm, you will first need to enter the Mycroft virtual environment, venv, using the following command:
mycroft-core$ source .venv/bin/activate
(.venv) [email protected]:~/mycroft-core$
If you are using a Picroft or Mark 1 Device, you can activate the .venv using the command:
mycroft-core$ source /opt/venvs/mycroft-core/bin/activate
You can then run msm:
(.venv) [email protected]:~/mycroft-core$ msm update
To see a list of all the available msm commands, type msm -h:
(.venv) [email protected]:~/mycroft-core$ msm -h
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msm: Mycroft Skill Manager
usage: msm [option] [repo | name]
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Options:
  default                  installs the default skills, updates all others
  install <repo>           installs from the specified github repo
  install <name> [name...] installs the mycroft-skill matching <name>
  remove <name> [name...]  removes the specified github repo
  list                     list all mycroft-skills
  update                   update all installed skills
  search <name>            search mycroft-skills for match for <name>
  info <name>              shows information about the skill matching <name>
  info <repo>              shows information about the skill in the specified repo
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Params:
  <repo>   full URL to a Github repo
  <name>   one or more substrings to match against submodule names
           in the https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-skills repo
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Examples:
  msm search twitter
  msm search date-time-skill
  msm install "daily meditation"
  msm remove "daily meditation"
  msm install https://github.com/penrods/Wink.git
For instance to see information on a Skill, type:
msm info mycroft-mark-1
To list all available Skills, type:
msm list
This will show available Skills, and indicate which ones you have installed:
rss-skill
sentiment-analysis-skill
skill-australian-news [installed]
skill-autogui
skill-caffeinewiz
Search is very handy functionality if you're looking for a particular Skill:
[email protected]_1:/opt/mycroft/skills $ msm search twitter
Possible match: twitter-skill
Update is very handy for updating all the Skills on your Device:
msm update
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-ip
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-timer
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-release-test
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-weather
INFO - Nothing new for chatbot
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-speak
INFO - Nothing new for fallback-wolfram-alpha
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-naptime
INFO - Nothing new for plasma-activities-skill
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-pairing
msm errors
The deprecated version of msm had several error codes. Instead, this version relies on standard Python errors.
Here are some common errors, what they mean, and how to resolve them.
Git authentication failed
ERROR - Error running update_skill on skill-radio-rne: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 128, b"remote: Invalid username or password.nfatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/ChrisFernandez/skill-radio-rne/'", b''))
This error usually means that the GitHub repository for the Skill no longer exists, or has moved. Remove the Skill using msm remove [Skill Name] and then install a new Skill.
Uncommitted changes
ERROR - Error running update_skill on TranslateSkill: SkillModified(Uncommitted changes:
     M requirements.sh
)
This error usually means that there is a difference between the Skill on the Device and the Skill's GitHub repo. Try re-installing the Skill.
Git command error - not something we can merge
ERROR - Error running update_skill on skill-malibu-stacy: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'merge', '--ff-only', 'origin/HEAD'], 1, b'merge: origin/HEAD - not something we can merge', b''))
This error usually means that there is no remote url defined for the Git repository (ie. named origin - which is the default name of a remote url). This often happens during Skill development when git init is run without defining a remote url. To resolve this error, add a remote url using the command git remote add origin https://github.com/yourGitHubUsername/yourrepo.git.
Git command error - failed to update repo
WARNING - Failed to update repo: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'config', 'remote.origin.url', 'https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-skills'], 255, b'error: could not lock config file .git/config: Permission denied', b''))
This error usually means that the filesystem permissions of the Skill are incorrect. Manually check, and if necessary, resolve them.
(mycroft-core) [email protected]:~/skills/reginaneon-av-music.reginaneon $ ls -las
total 48
4 drwxr-xr-x  6 pi      pi      4096 Jul 12 13:11 .
4 drwxrwxrwx 37 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jul 12 13:10 ..
4 drwxr-xr-x  4 pi      pi      4096 Jul 12 13:10 dialog
4 drwxr-xr-x  8 pi      pi      4096 Jul 12 13:10 .git
4 -rw-r--r--  1 pi      pi        20 Jul 12 13:10 .gitignore
4 -rw-r--r--  1 pi      pi      3159 Jul 12 13:10 __init__.py
4 -rw-r--r--  1 pi      pi      1850 Jul 12 13:10 README.md
4 -rw-r--r--  1 pi      pi        77 Jul 12 13:10 requirements.sh
4 -rw-r--r--  1 pi      pi        23 Jul 12 13:10 requirements.txt
4 -rw-r--r--  1 pi      pi        35 Jul 12 13:10 settings.json
4 drwxr-xr-x  3 pi      pi      4096 Jul 12 13:10 test
4 drwxr-xr-x  4 pi      pi      4096 Jul 12 13:10 vocab
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(mycroft-core) [email protected]:~/skills/reginaneon-av-music.reginaneon $ sudo chown -R mycroft:mycroft .
(mycroft-core) [email protected]:~/skills/reginaneon-av-music.reginaneon $ ls -las
total 48
4 drwxr-xr-x  6 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jul 12 13:11 .
4 drwxrwxrwx 37 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jul 12 13:10 ..
4 drwxr-xr-x  4 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jul 12 13:10 dialog
4 drwxr-xr-x  8 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jul 12 13:10 .git
4 -rw-r--r--  1 mycroft mycroft   20 Jul 12 13:10 .gitignore
4 -rw-r--r--  1 mycroft mycroft 3159 Jul 12 13:10 __init__.py
4 -rw-r--r--  1 mycroft mycroft 1850 Jul 12 13:10 README.md
4 -rw-r--r--  1 mycroft mycroft   77 Jul 12 13:10 requirements.sh
4 -rw-r--r--  1 mycroft mycroft   23 Jul 12 13:10 requirements.txt
4 -rw-r--r--  1 mycroft mycroft   35 Jul 12 13:10 settings.json
4 drwxr-xr-x  3 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jul 12 13:10 test
4 drwxr-xr-x  4 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jul 12 13:10 vocab
Other techniques to resolve Skill installation dependencies
Forcing the re-installation of dependencies
If you're still running into trouble with dependencies, which can happen during Skill Authoring, there are some other techniques available.
To trigger a pip re-installing Skill dependencies, do the following:
Remove the /home/mycroft/.mycroft/.mycroft-skill file
Remove the /opt/mycroft/skills/.msm file
Restart the mycroft-skills service by using the command sudo service mycroft-skills restart
This will force both a Skills update and the re-installation of dependencies when the mycroft-skills service is re-started.
You can also use the utility mycroft-pip which will install dependencies into the Mycroft virtual environment without activation (ie. the 'activate' command). Use mycroft-pip as you would regular pip for installing Python libraries on which your Skill depends.
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