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# User interaction

## Intents

The initial interactions with your Skill will start with a general utterance from the User. Your Skill must register intents that it can handle and Mycroft will then determine which Skill can respond to the Users request.

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[Intents](/docs/skill-development/user-interaction/intents.md)
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## Statements

Mycroft can speak any information that you need to communicate to the User.

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[Statements](/docs/skill-development/user-interaction/statements.md)
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## Prompts

If you need to prompt the User for information, you can use a range of methods to ask different types of questions.

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[Prompts](/docs/skill-development/user-interaction/prompts.md)
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## Parsing Utterances

A common process within a Skill is to parse the contents of an utterance. Mycroft provides a range of easy to use methods for this task.

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[Parsing Utterances](/docs/skill-development/user-interaction/parsing.md)
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## Confirmations

Confirmations are used to verify that the input from the User was understood correctly. These may be verbal or non-verbal.

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[Confirmations](/docs/skill-development/user-interaction/confirmations.md)
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## Conversational Context

For more complex cases, a Skill can add context to the Intent Parser to create more natural conversational interaction.

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[Conversational Context](/docs/skill-development/user-interaction/conversational-context.md)
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## Converse

Converse allows a recently active Skill to inspect utterances before the normal intent handling process.

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[Converse](/docs/skill-development/user-interaction/converse.md)
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