Meituan releases "Errand Skill" that can be integrated with multiple AI assistants

According to Beating Monitoring, Meituan has officially packaged its ordering and delivery fulfillment capabilities into a standardized interface called “Errand Skill,” and is now opening it to the external AI assistant ecosystem. Several third-party AI assistants have already completed integration, enabling users to place instant delivery orders directly through their external interaction interfaces without switching to the Meituan app.

The Skill interface is designed to extend the existing delivery scheduling network and fulfillment closed loop to external entry points. In addition to instant delivery, Meituan’s AI-native social community “Miyou” has also launched a public beta in May; it plans to later build linkages with local life services.

Industry analysis suggests that opening “Errand Skill” is a typical attempt to combine high-frequency, C-end instant fulfillment business with external AI. The interface integration does not export underlying large language models to the outside; instead, it encapsulates mature business capabilities such as scheduling, fulfillment, and ordering into modular components that can be directly embedded into mainstream AI assistants. While integration can help broaden service entry points, relying solely on opening Skill is unlikely to create a core technological barrier. In the instant delivery arena, Meituan still faces competition from Alibaba’s instant delivery system, ByteDance’s intelligent fulfillment and AI ecosystem, and vertical platforms such as JD Daojia and Shansong. Building future competitive advantages will still depend on the data closed loop of the delivery scheduling network and its efficiency in reuse.