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. 2026-06-17T15:20:54+02:00 Niklas Heidloff https://heidloff.net/ Jekyll © 2026 Niklas Heidloff /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-06-17T02:01:00+02:00 2026-06-17T02:01:00+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 Even the strongest frontier models are out of date when they are released since ...

2026-06-16T02:01:00+02:00 2026-06-16T02:01:00+02:00 https://heidloff.net/article/watsonx-orchestrate-skill-testing/ Niklas Heidloff

IBM Bob is a generic, AI-based software development tool that can be customized to access other systems. This post explains how to create a watsonx Orchestrate agent that is deployed and tested in an Orchestrate environment. Early AI-based Coding Assistants focused on creating code. Modern AI-based development tools like Bob are much more powerful because they help with a wide variety of other...

2026-06-15T02:01:00+02:00 2026-06-16T15:21:22+02:00 https://heidloff.net/article/watsonx-orchestrate-skill-cli/ Niklas Heidloff

IBM Bob is a generic AI-based software development tool which can be customized for specific scenarios. This post describes how Bob can utilize the ‘orchestrate’ CLI to access IBM watsonx Orchestrate environments via an agentic skill. Customizations of Bob can be done in several different ways: Skills, MCP tools, custom modes, Agents.md, rules and commands. These alternatives support different...

2026-05-18T02:01:00+02:00 2026-05-18T02:01:00+02:00 https://heidloff.net/article/bob-debug-orchestrate/ Niklas Heidloff

IBM Bob is an AI SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) partner that augments your existing workflows and helps you work confidently with real codebases. Bob can be extended via skills, MCP tools, custom modes and more, for example for the development of agents running in watsonx Orchestrate MCP tools can be leveraged. This post explains a skill to find out issues of agents running locally. AI-...

2026-05-17T02:01:00+02:00 2026-05-17T02:01:00+02:00 https://heidloff.net/article/debugging-watsonx-orchestrate/ Niklas Heidloff

Recently new ways to debug agents have been added to IBM watsonx Orchestrate. This post shows samples of the new user interface. There are two tools for the different types of agents: Agent debugger for agents following instructions Flow inspector for agentic workflows Agent Debugger In the Orchestrate chat experience a new debug icon shows up. The Agent Debugger shows the structur...