Hands-On Python Deep Learning for the Web

Creating a new agent

After creating an account, you will be greeted with a dashboard that will either display your active Dialogflow projects or ask you to create a new agent to be displayed—but what is an agent?

An agent—in Dialogflow terminology—is a piece of software that performs the task of receiving input from users, which might be in the format of text, audio, image, or video. It then tries to determine the intent or the previously defined appropriate action corresponding to the input. The matched intent might perform an action or it may simply arrive on a hypertext response to the query made by the user input. Finally, the agent returns the results to the user.

To create a new agent, in the left-hand side navigation menu of the Dialogflow ...