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Does ask-cli's simulate actually invoke the skill itself?

In response to the following issue from a couple of weeks ago my team are looking into automating regression tests using ask api's simulate-skill:

https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/178502/multiple-authority-in-resolutionperauthority.html

However, it's not clear from the documentation: Is it just using our interaction model to build a request to the lambda, or is it actually triggering the skill itself? For our regression tests to be useful in this case we need it to be triggering the skill

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Yes, it simulates invoking the skill, so makes a request to the skill's endpoint and waits for the response.

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