Updates

What has changed for Alexa Skills in Alexa+, and what has not.

• A Signal of a Larger Pattern in the Alexa Ecosystem — Third-party purchase conversion on Alexa has collapsed into single digits, while retail shopping on the same platform co
• Counting the Days: What Alexa+ Customers Experience While Alexa Skill Issues Remain Unresolved — Alexa+ customers do not see platform boundaries. When an Alexa Skill stops responding the way it used to, the product th
• Introducing SkillDevs.io: A Community-Driven Initiative for Alexa Skills — Why we built a public issue tracker for Alexa Skills, how it works, and how you can participate in making the Alexa deve
• When the Checkout Breaks: Issues Affecting the ISP Offer Screen (Updated) — What started as offer screen issues on Echo Show has expanded to all Alexa devices, including headless Echo devices. A n
• Monthly Progress Updates — A running journal of community progress on open Alexa Skills issues, sent monthly to Amazon and published here in the sa
• Nine Questions for Amazon: Seeking Clarity on the Future of Alexa Skills — The Alexa developer community has shared nine key questions with Amazon about the future of Alexa Skills. These question
• Skills Made Alexa — When the Echo launched in 2014, Alexa could do thirteen things. Five years later, she could do over 100,000. Developers
• When the Platform Joins the Competition — The May 13, 2026 discontinuation of the Alexa Routines Kit cut off the path Alexa+ customers had been using to build sle