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+# Copyright 2020 Mycroft AI Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""Skill Api
+
+The skill api allows skills interact with eachother over the message bus
+just like interacting with any other object.
+"""
+from ovos_bus_client.message import Message
+
+
+class SkillApi:
+    """SkillApi providing a simple interface to exported methods from skills
+
+    Methods are built from a method_dict provided when initializing the skill.
+    """
+    bus = None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def connect_bus(cls, mycroft_bus):
+        """Registers the bus object to use."""
+        cls.bus = mycroft_bus
+
+    def __init__(self, method_dict):
+        self.method_dict = method_dict
+        for key in method_dict:
+            def get_method(k):
+                def method(*args, **kwargs):
+                    m = self.method_dict[k]
+                    data = {'args': args, 'kwargs': kwargs}
+                    method_msg = Message(m['type'], data)
+                    response = SkillApi.bus.wait_for_response(method_msg)
+                    if (response and response.data and
+                            'result' in response.data):
+                        return response.data['result']
+                    else:
+                        return None
+
+                return method
+
+            self.__setattr__(key, get_method(key))
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get(skill):
+        """Generate api object from skill id.
+        Args:
+            skill (str): skill id for target skill
+
+        Returns:
+            SkillApi
+        """
+        public_api_msg = '{}.public_api'.format(skill)
+        api = SkillApi.bus.wait_for_response(Message(public_api_msg))
+        if api:
+            return SkillApi(api.data)
+        else:
+            return None