The next step is to rediscover Eliza :)

I did so a month ago, I developed a deterministic agent framework that works with a set of predefined intents, it is instantaneous and fully deterministic.

It works thanks to FlintParser (https://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge/blob/main/src/FlintParse...) which can transpile plain English to any Programming Language. IMHO this is the future of AI.

Check it out: https://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge