rasa
Basic Information
Rasa Open Source is an open source machine learning framework for automating text- and voice-based conversations. It provides core libraries and developer tooling to build contextual assistants that maintain state and carry out layered, multi-turn interactions. The repository contains components for natural language understanding and dialogue management, examples and connectors for many messaging and voice channels, and instructions for building from source, running tests and packaging. It is targeted at developers and teams who want an extensible, production-capable platform for custom conversational agents, with documentation, community support guidance and guidance on contributing and release processes.
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Features
The project includes NLU and dialogue management modules, connectors for many messaging channels such as Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Bot Framework and Twilio, and support for voice assistants like Alexa and Google Home. It provides developer tooling and automation including Poetry for dependency management, Make targets for install, docs, tests and Docker image builds, Docker Compose for integration tests, CI workflows, and automated documentation with Docusaurus. Code quality tooling described includes black, pre-commit hooks and type checking. The README documents release and maintenance policies, contribution guidelines and notes for optional dependencies and platform-specific installation issues.
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Rasa enables teams to build contextual, stateful conversational agents that can be integrated with a wide range of messaging and voice platforms. The repository supplies the runtime, packaging and test workflows needed to develop, validate and produce deployable assistants, including instructions for building local Docker images and running integration tests. Extensive documentation, a community forum and contributor guidance make it easier to adopt and extend the framework. Release policies and CI automation help maintain stable, versioned releases. Developer guidance on environment setup, dependency management and code style supports producing maintainable, production-ready conversational systems.