How do I interact the rasa assistant from the command line?

When creating a new rasa assistant with rasa init I get the interface below. What command can I run from the command line to get back to this interface after I exit? Sometimes I’d rather just use the cmd interface rather than running rasa x and using the browser.

? Do you want to speak to the trained assistant on the command line? 🤖  Yes
2020-11-03 10:01:30 INFO     root  - Connecting to channel 'cmdline' which was specified by the '--connector' argument. Any other channels will be ignored. To connect to all given channels, omit the '--connector' argument.
2020-11-03 10:01:30 INFO     root  - Starting Rasa server on http://localhost:5005
2020-11-03 10:01:32 INFO     root  - Rasa server is up and running.
Bot loaded. Type a message and press enter (use '/stop' to exit):
Your input ->  hi
Hey! How are you?
Your input ->  good
Great, carry on!
Your input ->  I am sad
Great, carry on!
Your input ->  hi
Hey! How are you?
Your input ->  bad
Here is something to cheer you up:
Image: https://i.imgur.com/nGF1K8f.jpg
Did that help you?
Your input ->  /stop
2020-11-03 10:02:38 INFO     root  - Killing Sanic server now.

Hi @marklocklear. You are looking for rasa shell

Thanks for the response @tyd! When I do rasa shell here is what I see:

(base) jmlockl2@C02ZM744MD6M remote_gig % source activate rasa
(rasa) jmlockl2@C02ZM744MD6M remote_gig % rasa shell
NLU model loaded. Type a message and press enter to parse it.
Next message:
hi
{
  "intent": {
    "name": "greet",
    "confidence": 0.9994694590568542
  },
  "entities": [],
  "intent_ranking": [
    {
      "name": "greet",
      "confidence": 0.9994694590568542
    },
    {
...

I want the chat/response with the assistant, not the intents/entities output. I do see a note in the docs that says:

If you start the shell with an NLU-only model, rasa shell will output the intents and entities predicted for any message you enter.

Maybe that is what is happening here?

@marklocklear It looks like you are using an NLU only model? Did you call rasa train or rasa train nlu when you trained your model?

@tyd Ah! Thank you…I had not made the connection between how the shell behaves and rasa train vs. rasa train nlu. I’ll do some more reading up on that so I better understand it.

When I did rasa train then ran rasa shell I was able to converse with the assistant.

Thank you!