US Patent 11604928 Efficiently managing predictive changes for a conversational agent

A dialog change service builds a directed graph of nodes, each described by code for a conversational agent stored in source control, the code comprising one or more dialog-based features. The dialog change service, responsive to receiving a request for a dialog change to a particular node of the conversational agent, evaluates the directed graph to identify an additional selection of nodes that require a similar changes as the dialog change based on textual and structural content. The dialog change service updates the code for the particular node and the additional selection of nodes to propagate the dialog change in the conversational agent stored in source control.