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Skill requirements

Yandex has several requirements on how your skill for Alice should work.

Start message​

The bot should start talking to Alice users by sending them text messages. It means that on the first screen of your bot, you should add a block that requires sending a message: the Text, text to $var, num to $var, or file to $var block.

Otherwise, the skill will not work.

Obligatory answer​

Make sure your bot script provides a response to each request from Alice users. Otherwise, users will receive messages saying the skill is not responding.

Response time no more than 4.5 seconds​

The bot must respond to user requests within 4.5 seconds.

If according to the script the bot should send requests to a third-party service, the bot has to process the user response, send a request, process the service response, and respond to the user — all within 4.5 seconds.

A response that takes longer will slow down the bot and Alice users will receive messages that the skill is not responding.

Images​

Yandex has the following requirements for images:

  • Images should be added only in one of the following formats: .png, .jpeg, .gif, .bmp, .tiff, .webp. Otherwise, the image will not be displayed.
  • Image size should be from 1 KB to 1 MB.

To add an image to a skill, upload it to Yandex.Dialogs.

caution
Also, if you add text to the image, text will not be displayed.
Alice will only voice it.

Number of characters in the bot’s phrase​

A phrase that the bot sends in a message or voices when talking to the user should contain no more than 1,024 characters.

If you specify a phrase with more characters, it will break off.