Mycroft Skills Manager
Mycroft Skills Manager (msm) is a command line tool used to add, manage and remove Skills on any Mycroft installation.
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Mycroft Skills Manager (msm) is a command line tool used to add, manage and remove Skills on any Mycroft installation.
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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 or from any Github repository. It is a handy tool for Developers and those who may frequently reconfigure, install and uninstall Skills.
To list all Skills available in the Marketplace run:
To search the available Skills run:
To show all available information on a Skill you can use the name or repository url:
To install a Skill from the Mycroft Marketplace you can provide a rough title and MSM will return the most likely match.
If you know the author of the Skill, particularly where multiple Skills with similar names exist, the install command has an additional optional parameter.
If I wanted a Dice Skill, but only if it was authored by Forslund, I would run:
Such a Skill doesn't exist so MSM returns a list of alternative options from the same author:
Installing Skills from outside the Mycroft Marketplace is done at your own risk. To be included in the Marketplace, all Skills are reviewed to ensure they contain no malicious or otherwise harmful code. We strongly recommend reviewing any code you are loading onto your device.
To install a Skill that is not included in the Mycroft Marketplace use the url of the repository.
To install a Skill from a different branch of the Mycroft-Skills Marketplace repository, use the -b flag:
To install a Skill from an independently managed listing of Skills, you can specify the url for that Marketplace using the -u flag:
To update all Skills installed on a device run:
To install all default Skills for the device, as well as update all Skills, run:
To uninstall or remove any Skill from the device run:
The remove command also has an optional author parameter that can be used to specify which Skill you intend to be uninstalled.
To show help information describing how to use MSM's different commands, use the -h flag.
For a complete overview run:
Or for command specific information include the command.
Note that if Mycroft detects that any file in a Skill has been modified, it will not update that Skill. This is to prevent loss of any work you are doing in that directory. See for tips to resolve this.
Note that default Skills will be reinstalled by the system unless they are explicitly blacklisted. See for more info.