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M. Goodrich asked

Control over Amazon skills once published?

I'm planning to start submitting skills for certification soon, and was wondering what kind of control the developer has once/if a skill is published, in terms of providing updates to a skill, or removing a skill from public availability if that becomes necessary for some reason? Thanks! Mark
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What happened for me is that I got two entries for the skill. One was 'frozen' in 'view' mode, which was the submitted skill. The other line was a normal development one, that I could update. I only get one line in my companion app, so I'm not sure if that is running the development version or the live version.
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The Stig answered
Easy way to test Jo - change the invocation name for the development skill. Then see which one Echo responds to.
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Jamie Grossman answered
Hey there, See here for more info. This talks about how to update skills: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/registering-and-managing-alexa-skills-in-the-developer-portal#Updating Regards, Jamie
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