parlant setup

[suneetkatoch]

I'm trying to set up Parlant on my PC using the DeepSeek API instead of OpenAI. I set the DeepSeek API key using $env:DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="key" and started the server with parlant-server --deepseek, but I’m still encountering the error KeyError: 'OPENAI_API_KEY'. It seems that Parlant is still looking for an OpenAI API key despite specifying DeepSeek. Could someone provide guidance on the correct setup process or share any relevant documentation for integrating DeepSeek with Parlant?

[kichanyurd]

Hey @suneetkatoch two things come to mind.

1. Make sure you're using the latest release (1.6.5 at this time)
2. In 1.6 we didn't support switching NLP services with existing config/data. Once you chose a service, you couldn't switch to a new NLP service. Note this is already fixed for v1.7.0 which is scheduled to release in 5 weeks.

So you can try deleting your parlant-data dir, just make sure to back it up first if there's important data in there. Then re run the server with deepseek.

Does that sound good? LMK how it goes.