There is a lot of buzz around autonomous agents. However, agents can fail. In these cases, it’s important for developers and AI engineers to understand why they fail to improve prompts, models and ...
Converting SSE to STDIO via the MCP Gateway
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become the standard how tools can be invoked from agents. There are different transport mechanisms, but some clients only support STDIO at this point. T...
Local MCP Tools in watsonx Orchestrate
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become the standard how tools can be invoked from agents. This post contains a simple example how to invoke GitHub tools including authentication from w...
Traces of Agents in watsonx Orchestrate
When building agentic systems, observability is key. While several demos seem to indicate that fully autonomous agents can already do everything, in reality often multi-agent systems fail. This pos...
Passing Context between watsonx Orchestrate Agents
Watsonx Orchestrate is IBM’s platform to run agentic systems. Agents can orchestrate work by delegating to multiple agents and tools. This post describes how external collaborator agents can get co...
Running Agents in watsonx Orchestrate via APIs
Watsonx Orchestrate is IBM’s platform to run agentic systems. Developers can run Orchestrate locally via containers. This post describes how to run agents and models via APIs. Watsonx Orchestrate ...
Invoking watsonx Orchestrate APIs locally
Watsonx Orchestrate is IBM’s platform to run agentic systems. To make developers productive, Orchestrate can be run locally via the watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition. This post describes how to...
Accessing local Models in watsonx Orchestrate via Ollama
Watsonx Orchestrate is IBM’s platform to run agentic systems. While low-code developers can use the user interface to build agents, pro-code developers can use the Agent Development Kit to build so...
Comparison of Agent Protocols MCP, ACP and A2A
AI agents can work autonomously by delegating tasks to different agents, models and tools. Various protocols are evolving to standardize the communication between agents. This post describes some p...
Introducing the watsonx Orchestrate Tool Builder
watsonx Orchestrate is a low code tool to build AI agents for business. It comes with a new component, called ‘Tool Builder’ to create flows via a graphical user interface or for developers via Pyt...
