Configure Mycroft to run with one customized skill only

lis55 · February 20, 2021, 4:45pm

Hello there,

My question is, is it possible to install and configure mycroft with one customized skill only? For example I want to build an application that gets a wake up word and then it can only get a set of command phrases, the rest of the functionality (like askng about the weather etc) are not of interest so I would like to remove them in this case.
Thank you in advance

JarbasAl · February 20, 2021, 5:51pm

default skills can not be removed, mycroft will auto install them again (and automatically update every skill installed with git )

you can however blacklist skills, they will be installed, but not load

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

EDIT: if you want to avoid msm nasty behaviour i think you can just set skills.auto_update to false in the mycroft.conf

github.com

MycroftAI/mycroft-core/blob/dev/mycroft/configuration/mycroft.conf#L111


  "repo": {
    // Relative to "data_dir"
    "cache": ".skills-repo",
    "url": "https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-skills",
    "branch": "20.08"
  }
},
"upload_skill_manifest": true,
// Directory to look for user skills
"directory": "~/.mycroft/skills",
// Enable auto update by msm
"auto_update": true,
// blacklisted skills to not load
// NB: This is the basename() of the directory where the skill lives, so if
// the skill you want to blacklist is in /opt/mycroft/skills/mycroft-alarm.mycroftai/
// then you should write "mycroft-alarm.mycroftai" below.
"blacklisted_skills": ["skill-media", "send_sms", "skill-wolfram-alpha", "pianobar-skill"],
// priority skills to be loaded first
"priority_skills": ["mycroft-pairing", "mycroft-volume"],
// Time between updating skills in hours
"update_interval": 1.0