https://heidloff.net/Blog from Niklas Heidloff, an IT professional focussing on artificial intelligence, development and advocacy. Niklas works at IBM and shares his AI, Cloud, OpenSource and DevOps experience. 2026-07-13T18:08:25+02:00 Niklas Heidloff https://heidloff.net/ Jekyll © 2026 Niklas Heidloff /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-07-13T01:01:00+02:00 2026-07-13T01:01:00+02:00 https://heidloff.net/article/loop-generator-skill-ibm-bob/ Niklas Heidloff

When using AI-powered software development tools, finding the right balance between agent autonomy and developer control is a constant trade-off. The agentic development tool IBM Bob is primarily built to be a collaborative partner, but by leveraging the Bob CLI in non-interactive mode, you can unlock the full power of automated, multi-iteration execution loops. OpenClaw inventor and AI coding...

2026-07-03T01:03:00+02:00 2026-07-13T18:06:33+02:00 https://heidloff.net/article/watsonx-orchestrate-skill-multi-turn-tests/ Niklas Heidloff

Agentic software development tools like IBM Bob can do much more than just generate code. Their real power emerges when they directly access live environments to run, test, and monitor code. This post covers a new watsonx-orchestrate skill that allows developers to access IBM watsonx Orchestrate systems directly from Bob, eliminating manual workflows when testing agents directly in Orchestrate ...

2026-07-02T01:02:00+02:00 2026-07-13T18:06:33+02:00 https://heidloff.net/article/watsonx-orchestrate-skill-environment/ Niklas Heidloff

Agentic software development tools like IBM Bob can do much more than just generate code. Their real power emerges when they directly access live environments to run, test, and monitor code. This post covers a new watsonx-orchestrate skill that allows developers to access IBM watsonx Orchestrate systems directly from Bob, eliminating manual workflows. Previously, I blogged about the new watson...

2026-07-01T01:01:00+02:00 2026-07-13T18:06:33+02:00 https://heidloff.net/article/watsonx-orchestrate-skill/ Niklas Heidloff

Agentic software development tools like IBM Bob require customization via skills and tools to interface with external platforms like IBM watsonx Orchestrate. This post introduces a new community-built watsonx-orchestrate skill. It significantly boosts developer productivity when creating new agentic applications, extending existing frameworks, or debugging and monitoring deployed agents. The s...

2026-06-17T02:01:00+02:00 2026-07-01T05:17:18+02:00 https://heidloff.net/article/develop-documentation-mcp-servers/ Niklas Heidloff

AI-based development tools like IBM Bob are powerful since they can use tools to access live data. To enable Bob to understand how to utilize certain technologies, frameworks and libraries, vendors often provide MCP tools to read their documentation. This post describes an example how these MCP tools can be built. Even the strongest frontier models are out of date when they are released since ...