dialogueAreEnabled

Dialogueareenabled is a configuration flag used in software systems to indicate whether a dialogue subsystem is active. In practice, the flag often represents a boolean value: true enables conversational capabilities such as natural language understanding, dialogue policy, context tracking, and response generation, while false disables these features and may cause the system to operate in a non-dialogue mode, performing tasks without engaging in a conversation.

Naming and usage: The term reflects a camelCase convention used for internal flags or environment variables. In configuration files, it may appear as dialogueAreEnabled, dialogue_are_enabled, or dialogueareenabled, depending on the project. Its exact placement varies; it might be read during initialization to decide whether to load a dialogue engine or to skip those components.

Semantics and interactions: The flag is typically part of a broader feature-flag or capability-management system. Enabling it usually activates language model calls, turn-taking logic, memory management, and response rendering. Disabling it may force the system into a non-conversational mode, such as command execution, data retrieval, or maintenance tasks, while still allowing other subsystems to function.

Considerations: Security, privacy, and safety implications are important when dialogue is enabled. Logging and data retention policies may apply to conversations. Documentation should clarify its default value, how to toggle at runtime, and how it interacts with related settings like safety or logging.

See also: feature flag, dialogue system, bot architecture, runtime configuration.