Create a skill (more details)

The interest of creating a skill is to modularize and structure your chatbot. We can also share the skill to the community

Structure of your competence

• (my-skill)

  • my-skill.js

  • my-skill.converse

Let's create our scenario as usual in the JS file:

import code from './my-skill.converse'

export default {
    code
}

And in the ConverseScript

@Intent(/hello/i)
hey() {
    > Hey !
}

With parameters

If we want to send parameters, such as a token, the skill must return a function:

skills/my-skill.js

import code from './my-skill.converse'

export default function(token) {
    return {
        code
    }
}

In your main script:

import mySkill from './skills/my-skill'

export default {
    skills: {
        mySkill: mySkill('my-token')
    }
}

It is possible to write it this way too:

import mySkill from './skills/my-skill'

export default {
    skills: {
        mySkill: {
            skill: mySkill,
            params: ['my-token']
        }
    }
}

This time, the value of mySkill is an object with two properties:

• skill: the path to competence

• params: the parameters to send to the function of the competency

An asynchronous skill

The skill can return a promise

skills/my-skill.js

import code from './my-skill.converse'

export default function() {
    return new Promise((resolve) => {
        setTimeout(() => {
            resolve({
                code
            })
        }, 2000)
    })
}

So let's send the skill to the resolve() function of the promise. In the main script:

import mySkill from './skills/my-skill'

export default {
    skills: {
        mySkill
    }
}