
My VS Code Setup To Debug Rasa Chatbots At Runtime
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
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When All You Want To Do Is Track State Changes
In this article, I will share my VS Code-based workflow to troubleshoot Rasa bots at runtime. This is a useful workflow to know when your bot is exhibiting really odd behavior during conversations and running the shell in debug mode isn’t helping to pinpoint the source of the problem.
The code to reproduce the results described in this article can be found here.
I assume the reader is familiar with the basic building blocks that make up a Rasa chatbot and have VS Code set up for Python development. The Rasa Playground is very helpful to quickly get up to speed on… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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