Completing the Skill Manifest

So far, we’ve barely touched the skill manifest, only tweaking it slightly to enable permissions for accessing a user’s given name, send reminders, and trigger notifications. While developing a skill, the values in the skill manifest aren’t that important. But before we can publish our skill, we need to ensure that the skill manifest completely and accurately describes our skill.

Specifying Publishing Information

The skill-package/skill.json file contains a section under the publishingInformation property that we’ll need to edit to be ready for publication. That section, unchanged from when we first initialized our skill from the “Hello World” template, looks like this:

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