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variables in agents and kept in context

Like assistant we used to have variables in prompt and context. We need this in orchestrate and better if the variables could be called by tools and as a filter for ES connections. And in order to redirect the action to next agent.
about 2 months ago in  1 Delivered

Request for implementation of watsonx Orchestrate's IP filtering function

Orchestrate is an important service in promoting automation in the enterprise. However, watsonx Orchestrate on IBM Cloud does not support Ip filtering, so its security features are insufficient for enterprise use. I urgently need you to support Ip...
9 months ago in  1 Delivered

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...
5 months ago in  1 Delivered

Ability to pass inputs and access outputs of Conversational Skills on Assistant Builder

When an action is created from Skills on Assistant builder on Orchestrate, that action should be able to take inputs from the assistant context. With this we can pass information available on Watson Assistant context to the skills while invoking t...
over 1 year ago in  8 Delivered

Expose watsonx Orchestrate non-interactive automations as a service

Our clients can do most of their work through watsonx Orchestrate Chat, interactively accomplishing their day-to-day tasks. Sometimes, they need to re-use a logic created as watsonx Orchestrate Automation and would like to call that logic from an ...
about 1 year ago in  9 Delivered

Trigger skills based on some event or schedule

In addition for he user to be able to request to do something, it would be quite productive to allow wxO to act on my behalf in certain circumstances such as a specific time of the day or a certain document being added to a certain folder.
about 3 years ago in  4 Delivered

Support customers to bring their own LLM

In watsonx Orchestrate genAI, enable support for customers to bring their own LLM. Many customers will request this feature as they explore watsonx Orchestrate capabilities. Be it for Gen AI automations in skill studio or RAG capabilities in AI as...
about 1 year ago in  2 Delivered

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.
6 months ago in  1 Delivered

Conditional flow for Skills

I would like to add a skill based on condition. For example, the output from Skill-1 = YES I need to call Skill-2 ; If NO then I need to call Skill-3
about 2 years ago in  6 Delivered

As a developer (WO builder role) I need to be able to debug my work e.g. by access to logs / traces so that I am able to overcome errors

As a WO builder when working with the SDK I need to use a development IDE / Text editor to work with YAML / JSON files to add the needed Watson Orchestrate skill annotations and to generate the package structure to be able to control my desired Sk...
over 2 years ago in  0 Delivered

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