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Playground

The Playground lets you test your Alhena AI agent in a sandbox environment before deploying changes to your live chat widget. Use it to verify guidelines, test agent routing, and experiment with your AI's responses.

Accessing the Playground

You can access the Playground from two locations:

  1. Dashboard link - Click "Playground" in your Alhena dashboard navigation

  2. Direct URL - Visit alhena.ai/playground/COMPANY_KEY (replace COMPANY_KEY with your company key)

Key Features

Separate Playground Credits

The Playground uses its own separate credit pool, so testing does not count against your main account usage. If you need additional playground credits, contact the Alhena team to have more added to your account.

Verify Guidelines

After adding or modifying guidelines, use the Playground to confirm they trigger correctly. Try different phrasings of customer queries to ensure your guidelines activate as expected.

Test Agent Routing

If you've configured custom agents, verify that customer queries route to the correct agent. Test edge cases to ensure your routing rules work as intended.

Preview Changes

Test changes to your AI's personality, data sources, or product recommendations before they affect live customers.

Best Practices

  • Test edge cases - Try unusual queries and edge cases, not just the happy path

  • Verify trigger phrases - If you've set up specific trigger words in guidelines, confirm they work with variations

  • Check handoff behavior - Test human transfer triggers to ensure escalations work correctly

  • Review response quality - Assess whether responses match your brand's tone and provide accurate information

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