Extend CloudShell Web UI, add framework for implementing chatbots

[grainovic]

Hello,
Could you provide a framework for adding custom chat-bot to CloudShell WebUI?

Today, as a lab automation developer I can use sandbox scripts or service drivers to run my custom code in CS managed lab. However, those cannot be exposed to the user outside of an active sandbox - user must first reserve a sandbox then run a script to get results in the Output window.
Examples of interactions:

• Show which SW versions are available for the router model X, so that I can provide specify it as a Global Input?
• Show my user-limits (max concurrent reservations, max reservation duration, ...)

As a lab automation developer I'd like to have a chatbot in the CS WebUI, so that user can communicate with my scripts running in the back-end.
I'd like CS WebUI to:

• be a front-end, providing standard/uniform way of implementing these chat-bots
• authenticate the user (pass user-id)
• organize interactions (questions & answers) as a session
• provide current user's context (view, BP ID, SB ID,...)

As an admin, I should provide info to CS (customer.config or similar) how to connect to my back-end code (service). Maybe a MQ?
API should be provided, to control the chat window (post answer, modify the chat window, ...)

Thank you!

[Costya-Y]

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