Built in skills keep reinstalling

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I have a usecase with HomeAssistant where a calendar turns on an alarm, and when I’m ready to wake up, I tell Mycroft “Turn off Masterbedroom Alarm”

This conflicts with the keywords of the default Alarm skill, so every morning I have to experience this flow:

Me: Hey Mycroft
M: Turn off Masterbedroom Alarm
MyCroft: There are no active alarms
M: Uninstall alarm skill
MC: Confirming, do you want me to uninstall Mycroft Alarm by Mycroft AI?
M: Yes
MC: Mycroft Alarm by Mycroft AI has been uninstalled
M: Hey Mycroft
M: Turn off Masterbedroom alarm
MC: Masterbedroom alarm has been turned off

The work around I have found is to use the MQTT skill to send a command in the morning to uninstall the skill, wait 2 seconds and then send another command of “yes”

How can I prevent unwanted builtin skills from being reinstalled?

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they will keep reinstalling, you must blacklist them so they don’t load.

Alternatively just edit the skill and it will stop updating, eg, replace __init__.py with an empty file

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How do I black list them, that sounds preferable from deleting the init script

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https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/skill-development/faq#how-do-i-disable-a-skill

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Thank you very much for the assistance.