Can’t I somehow edit the skill itself to listen to specific commands and answer/do these? In that way I also could trigger scripts more easily instead of saying “Alexa, turn Shield pause on” which kinda sounds stupid. In that way it also doesn’t need to read the definition like % or PM2.5 and just tell me a numeric value / the state.
Yes you can, but you gotta look at the code for the lambda function running on aws and adjust that. That’s where your filter for types would be. It could also be in the component on home assistants side. I haven’t looked at that code in so long and I don’t remember.