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Within MindsDB, chatbots are agents connected to some messaging interface. Creating a chatbot requires an AI agent and a connection to a chat app, like Slack or MS Teams.
Currently, the recommended chat app is Slack. MS Teams will be fully supported soon.

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How to work with chatbots

A chatbot can be created, deleted, queried, and updated. Here is how you can do that using SQL API.
  • Creating a chatbot: 
    CREATE CHATBOT my_chatbot
USING
    database = 'my_slack', -- this must be created with CREATE DATABASE
    agent = 'customer_support_agent', -- this must be created with CREATE AGENT
    included_channels = ['support', 'help'], -- Default is all
    excluded_channels = [], -- Default is none
    enable_dms = true,
    is_running = true; -- Default is true
    The parameters include the following:
    • database stores connection to a chat app (like Slack or MS Teams) that should be created with the CREATE DATABASE statement.
    • agent is an AI agent created with the CREATE AGENT command. It consists of an AI model trained with defined data sets.
    • included_channels and excluded_channels are optional and store channel names where the bot will or will not respond.
    • enable_dms is the initially supported mode of talking to a chatbot. A chatbot responds to direct messages.
    • is_running indicates whether or not to start the chatbot upon creation.
    If you want to use Slack in the CREATE CHATBOT syntax, use this method of connecting Slack to MindsDB.
  • Deleting a chatbot: 
    DROP CHATBOT my_chatbot;
You can query all chatbots using these commands: 
SELECT * FROM chatbots;

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Example

Following the example from here, let’s create a chatbot utilizing the already created agent. Start by connecting a chat app to MindsDB: Next, create a chatbot. 
CREATE CHATBOT text_to_sql_chatbot
USING
    database = 'my_slack', -- this must be created with CREATE DATABASE
    agent = 'text_to_sql_agent', -- this must be created with CREATE AGENT
    enable_dms = true,
    is_running = true;
To create my_slack and be able to talk to the chatbot via DMs, follow this instruction.To see how the agent is created, follow this example.