Google’s tutorial didn’t work for me.

In this post, I’ll help you get this working.

https://developers.google.com/assistant/conversational/quickstart

Create and set up a project

This mostly works.

I recommend using the Actions Console as described to create the project.

I chose “Custom” and “Blank Project”

You need not enable Actions API as this is done automatically:

For the console work, I’m going to use Google’s excellent Cloud Shell. You may access this through the browser or through a terminal: