# Alias or Shortcut commands
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/alias-or-shortcut-commands/10361
**Category:** Skill Suggestions - Votes Needed
**Created:** [March 10, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/alias-or-shortcut-commands/10361 "2021-03-10T10:11:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@mattcd216](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/mattcd216)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/alias-or-shortcut-commands/10361/1 "2021-03-10T10:11:45Z")
**Skill name:** command-alias-skill
**User story:**
\_As a user with a long command/utterance I want this Skill to create shortcuts or aliases so that I can achieve my complex command by only speaking the shortcut/alias
eg. Instead of having to say “Hey Mycroft, turn on my kitchen lights to 100% brightness” I would only need to say “Hey Mycroft, kitchen” and it would know to handle the full command.
**What third party services, data sets or platforms will the Skill interact with?**
none
**Are there similar Mycroft Skills already?**
cmd\_skill is possibly similar
_See [GitHub - MycroftAI/mycroft-skills: A repository for sharing and collaboration for third-party Mycroft skills development.](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-skills) for a list. If so, how could they be combined?_
**What will the user Speak to trigger the Skill?**
“Hey mycroft, [chosen alias]”
**What phrases will Mycroft Speak?**
Same response it would for the full command
**What Skill Settings will this Skill need to store?**
The alias utterance and the full command it would handle
**Other comments?**
Could also be used to trigger multiple utterances… like a shortcut. The functionality Google assistant calls ‘Routines’.
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### Author:  [@gez-mycroft](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/gez-mycroft)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 5:43am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/alias-or-shortcut-commands/10361/2 "2021-03-11T05:43:27Z")
Hey Matt, I haven’t tried it in a long time but it seems like this is what you’re after:
> **[ChristopherRogers1991/mycroft\_routine\_skill](https://github.com/ChristopherRogers1991/mycroft_routine_skill)**
>
> Create, run, and schedule routines with Mycroft. Contribute to ChristopherRogers1991/mycroft\_routine\_skill development by creating an account on GitHub.