# Categorical Intents Documentation

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/categorical-intents-documentation/49359>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [November 19, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/categorical-intents-documentation/49359 "2021-11-19T20:15:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![haz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/haz/32/18162_2.png) [@haz](https://forum.rasa.com/u/haz)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/categorical-intents-documentation/49359/1 "2021-11-19T20:15:02Z")

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Hello!

I was just curious where I might find documentation in the 2.x Rasa for categorical intents. Trying to follow along something like [[this](https://cobusgreyling.medium.com/how-to-add-structure-to-chatbot-intents-using-rasa-d50d31f64d84)]. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ChrisRahme](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/chrisrahme/32/15572_2.png) [@ChrisRahme](https://forum.rasa.com/u/ChrisRahme)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/categorical-intents-documentation/49359/2 "2021-11-19T21:58:06Z")

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Hello! 🙂

I think you’re looking for [Retrieval Intents](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/chitchat-faqs), a special type of intents that can be divided into smaller sub-intents.

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**Author:** ![haz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/haz/32/18162_2.png) [@haz](https://forum.rasa.com/u/haz)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/categorical-intents-documentation/49359/3 "2021-11-19T22:40:47Z")

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Aye, I’d considered that, but it’s a bit different.

I’m hoping to restrict Rasa’s checking of intents to a small subset, depending on the context. With the number of intents getting large, it makes no sense checking them all.

Ultimately, we’re trying to ended a dialogue tree/graph inside of Rasa’s framework. At any given node (agent message) there is a small number of possible responses we care to handle (intents).