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Publishing a new version from Skill studio should retain the "enhance skill" updates that are made in the skill

We are having issues when publishing new versions of skills. On our end, all the configs in "Enhance Skill" get removed after publishing any changes in the skill studio. This behavior was confirmed in more than one tenant. To avoid it we have to e...
25 days ago in  0 Not under consideration

Versioning of Skills in Watson Orchestrate

Some of the actions in the assistant are skill-based, meaning they rely on skills (no matter it's a workflow or decision model etc) built in the "skill studio" of orchestrate . Every time someone publishes a new version in the skill studio in orch...
25 days ago in  0 Not under consideration

Agent Access Control: JIT(Just-in-time) JEA( Just-enough-access)

In regulated domains like Talent (HR systems) or Finance (ERP, banking platforms), granting AI agents standing access to sensitive data and systems poses significant security and compliance risks. Just‑In‑Time (JIT) and Just‑Enough‑Access (JEA) ar...
25 days ago in  1 Needs more information

3rd-party agent authentication/authorization

WxO has no mechanism to keep authentication smoothly with outside agents. It is applicable to both Talent & Finance use cases: Currently on Talent side we have the following issue: We build our agent using LangGraph & Langchain outside WxO...
25 days ago in  0 Under review

Provide more control of text formatting in chat to make it more readable to user

An example if that an error should be displayed in red but also allow builder to highlight some aspect of the responses to make the chat response & history easier to read in order to sort our key information.
about 1 month ago in  0 Under review

Support connector for RDB

We would like to manage conversation history using RDB, but it is not supported by the standard connector. Since this request is likely to come up from other customers as well, I would like it to be supported.
about 1 month ago in  1 Needs more information

wxo on prem deployment should 100% on-prem

Skill Studio - Gen AI skill - which does not use LLMs on-prem, but calls out to watsonx.ai in SaaS (IBM Cloud). https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=setup-enabling-generative-ai-secret Skill Studio - Gen AI skill - which does not u...
about 1 month ago in  0 Under review

wxo on prem need Chinese language Support

( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watson-orchestrate/current?topic=notes-supported-languages ) 1)Generative AI Chinese Support, it is first priority. If we can’t use Generative AI in wxo, it is not technologically advanced product. We need to ...
about 1 month ago in  1 Functionality already exists

Add Model Context Protocol (MCP) or ACP based multi-agents communication

With new standards and protocols coming in, it would really help if agent orchestration is done through MCP or ACP (Agent Communication Protocol). This would help in easily connecting to thousands of MCP server based exposed Agents within WxO.
about 1 month ago in  0 Under review

Provide admins ability to install, uninstall skills from the catalog as Day 0 and Day 2 Operations

As the number of skill available increases, the time to install them increases. Not every company needs all these skills at their disposal.
about 1 month ago in  0 Under review