Parlant
Framework for building controlled conversational AI agents
Parlant is an open-source engine for building customer-facing conversational AI agents whose behavior is governed by explicit guidelines. It runs as a self-hosted server with an SDK for defining agent rules.
Key features
- Guideline-driven agents
- Behavior control
- Self-hosted server
- SDK for rules
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 18.2k GitHub stars
- Written in Python
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