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Mamoru Fujita
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Mamoru Fujita
Courses Plus Student 768 Points
Posted by Mamoru Fujita
Mamoru Fujita
Courses Plus Student 768 Points

I can't make a change on Alexa custom skill. An error occurs by adding item on definition.json .

Here is error message. The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.

1 Answer

TR Resudek
TR Resudek
Courses Plus Student 251 Points

The issue is most likely in how you re-zipped the files. Index.js actually needs to be at the root of your package, so instead of zipping dictionary-skill and uploading that, you need to select the files in inside of that directory to zip.

AF Content
AF Content
21,460 Points

that worked, thank you!

James Reynolds
James Reynolds
3,182 Points
James Reynolds
James Reynolds
3,182 Points

Can I please ask for a more specific set of zip instructions? I tried several approaches but I am still getting the same error. Thank you!