thalovant-skillkit

Build and test Thalovant skills for Open Voice OS (OVOS) with shared message, locale, conversation, and packaging helpers. SkillKit provides base classes, a project scaffold, and checks for skill resources and built packages. OVOS owns intent routing, speech, sessions, and scheduling.

Quickstart

You need Python 3.11 or newer with venv and pip, a terminal, and access to your Python package index. SkillKit itself supports Python 3.10 and newer; its generated projects require 3.11. No running hub or speaker is needed here.

Start in a working directory where thalovant-skill-garden-watering does not already exist:

python3 -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install --pre "thalovant-skillkit==0.15.0"
thalovant-skillkit new garden-watering
cd thalovant-skill-garden-watering
python -m pip install --pre -e ".[test]" build
thalovant-skillkit check
python -m pytest -q

This example pins SkillKit 0.15.0. --pre allows the current OVOS prerelease stack; see the reference for legacy Workshop 8 compatibility.

You should have a fallback skill with five passing tests, English and French locale resources, package metadata, and a GitHub test workflow. The check reports ok: thalovant-skill-garden-watering keeps its contracts. This scaffold uses vocabulary files, so it has no intent examples for fleet comparison. The workflow tests and validates packages; it does not install your skill on a speaker.

The sample answers what is garden watering with a placeholder reply and declines ordinary room chatter. Edit thalovant_skill_garden_watering/__init__.py for its behavior and locale/ inside that package for vocabulary and replies. Both initial vocabularies use the same English keyword; translate them before calling the skill translated.

Regional tags such as en-CA, en-GB, and fr-CA reuse compatible translations while retaining the speaker's language. For regional wording, keep only the differences in locale/regional.json; thalovant-skillkit locales --write builds complete OVOS resources. See the regional guide.

Continue building

Writing a Skill — choose a base class and understand how a skill works with OVOS.
SkillKit tutorial — build a bilingual educational quiz with sounds, one working lesson at a time.
API and CLI reference — helper contracts, session state, native OVOS testing, resource lookup, and command options.
Changelog — releases and upgrade notes.

Contribute

From a SkillKit checkout, activate a virtual environment and run the same lint and unit checks as CI:

python -m pip install --pre -e . pytest ruff
python -m ruff check thalovant_skillkit test scripts
python -m pytest -q

For changes to native OVOS integration, also follow the integration job in the test workflow. Its optional dependencies and harness contracts are covered in the reference. Report reproducible problems or suggest improvements in GitHub issues.

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