# Testing Rasa Core without a NLU component

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/testing-rasa-core-without-a-nlu-component/2834>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [November 21, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/testing-rasa-core-without-a-nlu-component/2834 "2018-11-21T09:44:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![aj\_loki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@aj\_loki](https://forum.rasa.com/u/aj_loki)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/testing-rasa-core-without-a-nlu-component/2834/1 "2018-11-21T09:44:32Z")

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Is there a way I can directly send in the probabilities of intents and entity list in :

interpreter.parse() format: {‘intent’: {‘name’: ‘intent\_name’, ‘confidence’: 1},‘entities’: [],‘text’: ‘testing core’}

I tried rewriting the NLU parse function to send the above output, but the core isn’t executing as required.

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**Author:** ![Tobias\_Wochinger](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/tobias_wochinger/32/4580_2.png) [@Tobias\_Wochinger](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Tobias_Wochinger)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/testing-rasa-core-without-a-nlu-component/2834/2 "2018-11-23T12:44:08Z")

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What do you want to accomplish? You could create a custom NLU server which can process the Rasa Core requests to `/parse` and specify it in the endpoint configuration.