# superscriptjs/superscript

A dialogue engine for creating chat bots

Repository: https://github.com/superscriptjs/superscript
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/superscript
Homepage: http://superscriptjs.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2019-03-06T17:32:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4329, "days_push": 2737, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1635, forks 206 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:14.378979+00:00)

## What it is
SuperScript is a dialogue engine and bot framework for building human-like conversation chat bots in JavaScript on Node.js. It provides an expressive scripting language for crafting branching dialogue, NLP message processing, WordNet-based text expansion, and a LevelDB-backed fact system.

## Use cases
- build a chat bot with branching dialogue
- create a Slack chatbot with scripted conversations
- write a conversational bot with topic-based dialogue flow
- add a fact system to a chatbot for entity relationships
- prototype a human-like conversation bot in Node.js

## When to choose
- you want a scriptable dialogue engine with topics and conversation flow
- you need a Node.js bot framework with built-in NLP and WordNet expansion
- you're building multi-user group chat bots for platforms like Slack

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent updates
- you want modern LLM-based conversational AI
- you need support for Node.js versions beyond 6.x-era tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: chatbot, nlp, agent-framework
- domain: chatbots, artificial-intelligence
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: dialogue-engine, bot-engine, wordnet, leveldb, conversation-scripting, natural-language-processing, nodejs

## Member repositories
- superscriptjs/superscript (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:14.378979+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:47:02.461592+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/superscriptjs/superscript (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:14.378979+00:00, sha bf67b684b6e2)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/superscript (fetched 2026-08-29T11:20:24.073464+00:00, sha 0fe2b5b77860)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.