# Serverless Alexa Skill Example This example demonstrates how to setup your own Alexa skill using AWS Lambdas. ## Use-cases - Building custom Alexa skills ## How it works In the Alexa Developer Portal you can add your own skill. To do so you need to define the available intents and then connect them to a Lambda. You can update and define the Lambda with Serverless. ## Setup In order to deploy the endpoint simply run ```bash serverless deploy ``` The expected result should be similar to: ```bash Serverless: Packaging service... Serverless: Uploading CloudFormation file to S3... Serverless: Uploading service .zip file to S3 (378 B)... Serverless: Updating Stack... Serverless: Checking Stack update progress... ......... Serverless: Stack update finished... Serverless: Removing old service versions... Service Information service: aws-node-alexa-skill-2 stage: dev region: us-east-1 api keys: None endpoints: None functions: aws-node-alexa-skill-2-dev-luckyNumber: arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:377024778620:function:aws-node-alexa-skill-2-dev-luckyNumber ``` Next we need to setup an Alexa skill. Once you've signed up for the Amazon Developer Platform visit `https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html`. There you should see the following screen:  Next click on `Add a new Skill`:  Go through the steps and fill in all the required fields e.g. Intent Schema and Sample Utterances: Intent Schema ``` { "intents": [ { "intent": "GetLuckyNumbers", "slots": [ { "name": "UpperLimit", "type": "AMAZON.NUMBER" } ] } ] } ``` Sample Utterances ``` GetLuckyNumbers what are my lucky numbers GetLuckyNumbers tell me my lucky numbers GetLuckyNumbers what are my lucky numbers lower than {UpperLimit} GetLuckyNumbers tell me my lucky numbers lower than {UpperLimit} ```   Fill in the Lambda ARN which was printed or run `serverless info` to retrieve the ARN again.  Next up visit the test page, fill in the utterance and click on `Ask LuckyNumbers`.     You should have received a response containing the text `Your lucky number is` followed by your lucky number :) Check out this [Amazon guide](https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/overviews/steps-to-build-a-custom-skill#your-skill-is-published-now-what) to learn more about how to submit your skill for publication.