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Search results: IBM watsonx Orchestrate

Ability to change hard-coded message when an error is seen on Watsonx Orchestrate

If Watsonx Orchestrate agents are built along a different english than english i.e. Portuguese, any errors seen are going to return a hard-coded message in English stating: I am sorry, I did not understand your question. Please try again.
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Add Option to Preserve ReAct Reasoning ("Thought") in Context

Problem When using ReAct-style agents in multi-agent configurations, the system removes "Thought:" portions from responses before storing them in context. This causes format inconsistency and behavior instability. Current Behavior Child agents out...
8 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enable a parallel text chat stream while using the voice experience, allowing users to see the conversation in real time while interacting via voice

Currently, when voice mode is enabled in watsonx Orchestrate, the user enters a voice-only interaction that behaves like a phone call with the virtual agent. During this experience, the textual conversation is not visible in real time within the c...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

The idea is to enhance watsonx Orchestrate so it can directly connect to any external agent without requiring strict protocol compliance (like chat‑completions or A2A).

This enhancement is useful because it removes a major integration barrier between watsonx Orchestrate and external agent Most existing external agents expose REST APIs with custom request and response formats, which are not directly compatible wit...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

First-class way to represent externally executed enterprise actions

Enterprise agents often should not execute directly. They should decide, then delegate execution to governed systems like BAW, Decisions, ITSM, ERP, or partner platforms. This could be enabled by supporting an delegated/no-op tool concept which th...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

WxO should be able to visualize numeric data without custom widgets and in the regular Web UI

Customer has agents that pull various numeric (time-series) data from backend services like grafana, present the data in a chart form, analyze the data and make various recommendations and summaries based on the analysis. The end users at Verizon ...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

NVIDIA B300 GPU support on-premises

We are preparing an on-prem deployment proposal including watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate (WXO), and watsonx.data for a major financial-sector customer. The customer plans to deploy their AI infrastructure on NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs. Ho...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

IBM Events Operator to be supported and installed via create-argo-apps.

The `cpd-cli manage create-argo-apps` command should generate IBM Events Operator manifests that work without manual intervention. This is useful because it enables automated CP4D deployments and reduces deployment complexity. The tool should gene...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Support XLSX file for TEXT&DOC EXTRACTION NODES

[Request] I would like to request wxO to support XLSX files for both FILE UPLOAD, and TEXT AND DOCUMENT EXTRACTION NODE. Currently, wxO onlly allow us to upload XLSX files via FILE UPLOAD NODE, however, the content is recognized as binary file as ...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review