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No, it can't. However, there have been some hints that Amazon is working on building in a sort of "scenario" function natively that will do just this. Steve

You have to remember the difference between The Echo product, and The Alexa service. Anything that begins with a standard phase like "Alexa open " is something provided by the Alexa service. Everything else is tied to The Echo product. Since the Alexa service runs on multiple devices, it can never avail of intrinsic Echo specific features. There's nothing stopping Amazon releasing a built-in Echo function that can call other built-in Echo functions, but that would be a feature requests for the Echo, not the Alexa Skill Kit.

We have this on the platform feature request queue. No timelines applied as yet. Thank you for all your great requests!

Levon, how about exposing this "platform request queue"? No point nattering on about "timelines applied", since you wouldn't tell us if there was. If you want a sense of community participation and engagement, please expose feature requests to the SDK like most other developer relations.