Quick Start#

To use the CHA in a safe and stable way make sure you have python3.10 and higher. First create a virtual env.

#create the venv
python -m venv /path/to/new/virtual/environment
#activate the venv
source activate /path/to/new/virtual/environment/bin

You should now be able to see the environment showing in your terminal.

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Now install the CHA package:

This command only installs the based requirements and later you need to install different packages needed based on tasks, planner, response generator, and llm types you want to use

git clone https://github.com/Institute4FutureHealth/CHA.git
cd CHA

To make it easier, you can use the following command to install the minimum requirments and ready to go. This will install openai, tree of thought planner, as well as serpapi (search), and extract_text tasks.

pip install '.[minimum]'

If you want to install all requirements for all tasks and other components, use the following command:

pip install '.[all]'

After installing the package, based on what tasks you want to use, you may need to acquire some api_keys. For example, to get started using openAI GPT3.5 model as LLM in CHA, you need to signup in their website and get the api_key. Then you should add openAI api_key as environment vairable in your terminal:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your api_key"

The same goes for using tasks like SerpAPI:

export SERPAPI_API_KEY="your api_key"

To make the extract_text work, you need to also install playwright using playwright command. Run the following command in your terminal:

playwright install

Finally, you can start running our framework with the following simple code:

from CHA import CHA

cha = CHA()
cha.run_with_interface()

This code will run the default interface. You can route to the following url:

http://127.0.0.1:7860

The openCHA back-end starts running

Interface

To start interacting with openCHA and make sure everything is working correctly, from the Tasks List selece google_search and extract_text. Then, in the Question box ask your questions like How to improve my sleep.

Select Task
Ask Question

When the answer is ready, the answer will be shown in the chatbot box:

Answer Question

For debugging matters, your can check the terminal logs which logs all the process happening in the terminal. Each component log has different colors. For example, the tasks’ execution logs are purple.

Logs

For more examples go to the Examples page: Examples

Checkout our youtube video to see the setup in action: