Arubick

Simple bot engine with expressive syntax.

Arubick is a simple bot engine that runs on Javascript by feeding it a *.rbot file that contains expressive syntax of your bot.

RandomBot:0.0.1

def ext/random = extern("./js/random.js")

def intent/query = [
    "random"
]
def intent/greet = [
    "hi",
    "hello"
]

main {
    def message = await reply()
    if message is intent/greet {
        say("Hi! I am random bot, ask me for a random number.")
        restart()
    } else {
        if message is intent/query {
            def random = ext/random()
            say("Generated random number ${random}")
            restart()
        } else {
            say("Sorry, I don't understand")
            restart()
        }
    }
}

ARUBICK IS EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT AND SUBJECT TO FREQUENT CHANGES THAT COULD BREAKS PREVIOUS VERSION.

Arubick is a way for me to learn Antlr, there might be some things that does not follow Antlr best practice, I am used to write parser manually before.

Agnostic Design

Arubick is designed to be agnostic, it is not primarily designed to run limited to the engine. You should be able to extend (not yet implemented) Arubick to use external natural language processing engine.

def extract = ext/intentQuery(message)
if extract {
    say("...")
}

Running Example

To run the example, run the command below

npm run test

Make sure to install the dependencies first (including development dependencies).

Where ext/intentQuery above is defined as external natural language processor.

Contribution

This is more like a learning project and research, so feel free to share your knowledge with me and any form of contribution is accepted.

Extra

Arubick is named after Rubick, a DoTA 2 hero that can learn the opponent spells.