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Support for Content-Type: application/json Header in External Agent Configuration

User is integrating a Chat Completion API with IBM watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) by registering it as an External Agent. This API requires the Content-Type: application/json header to function correctly. However, they have identified that the External...
4 months ago in  0 Under review

Additional external LLM model vendors for Chinese support

With current version WXO, user can add limited number of external model provider. We would like be able to add Chinese model provider deepseek or Qwen in the list to better support local market.
4 months ago in  7 Needs more information

Conditional confirmation of a caller’s utterance based on a confidence threshold.

Here is a hypothetical example, where the confidence threshold is set between 75 and 85% System: “How may I help you?” Customer: “I need to track my package” Confidence factor = 89% (above range). The system proceeds to the next prompt in the WISM...
4 months ago in  0 Submitted

AI Governance

WO/WA product adherence to controls mandated as part of AI Governance
over 1 year ago in  4 Planned for future release

API to list user message

We need help understanding why the API listed here is not returning the desired result where the admin needs to see user message https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/watsonorchestrate--custom-assistants/api/API--watsonorchestrate--ibm-watsonx-or...
4 months ago in  1 Needs more information

Shareable Subflows between assistants

Sharing subflows allows assistants to function modularly, essentially exposing the action API to a user building an action.
6 months ago in  0 Submitted

Automate Nonprofit Grant Writing Workflow

As someone working with a small nonprofit team, I’d love to see IBM watsonx Orchestrate provide a pre-built automation flow specifically for grant writing. Writing and managing multiple grant applications takes time we don’t always have, and autom...
2 months ago in  1 Not under consideration

Multi-Agent System to Automate the Selection and Evaluation of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models

The proposal is to create an ecosystem of agents in Watson Orchestrate capable of working collaboratively to analyze structured and unstructured data, identify business objectives, and automatically select the best Machine Learning or Deep Learnin...
2 months ago in  3 Needs more information

Add Full MCP (Model Context Protocol) Support for AI Agents

Introduce full support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Watson Orchestrate to enable standardized, context-aware communication between AI agents and foundation models (e.g., from watsonx.ai). MCP is quickly becoming a universal standard—like US...
4 months ago in  4 Planned for future release

Support for importing 3rd party agents to host directly in Orchestrate runtime

Our team has built agents outside of WxO using frameworks like LangGraph. We are looking to import them into Orchestrate to extend the scope of our project. Currently, the product supports integration only through "External agents" option, which r...
2 months ago in  1 Planned for future release

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