Warning: This document is for an old version of Rasa Core. The latest version is 0.15.1.

The Rasa Core dialogue engine

Note

This is the documentation for version 0.12.4 of Rasa Core. Make sure you select the appropriate version of the documentation for your local installation!

What am I looking at?

Rasa is a framework for building conversational software: Messenger/Slack bots, Alexa skills, etc. We'll abbreviate this as a bot in this documentation.

What's cool about it?

Rather than a bunch of if/else statements, the logic of your bot is based on a machine learning model trained on example conversations.

That sounds harder than writing a few if statements.

In the beginning of a project, it seems easier to just hard code some logic. Rasa helps you when you want to go past that and create a bot that can handle more complexity. This blog post explains the philosophy behind Rasa Core.

Can I see it in action?

We thought you'd never ask! You can build a full example without installing anything, just go to the quickstart!