I built a local AI shopping agent with IBM Bob: from recipe files to a full Bring! list

I built a local AI shopping agent with IBM Bob: from recipe files to a full Bring! list

A Vue chat UI, a small Node backend, a 4B-parameter LLM running on my laptop, and an MCP server. Built with IBM Bob in minutes. Find the repo here: https://github.com/FelixAugenstein/bring-app-agent The problem Every week it is the same routine: decide what to cook, open the shopping list app, type in 40 ingredients. […]

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watsonx Orchestrate ADK Patterns- Building Agents, Tools, Knowledge Bases, and MCP Integrations with IBM Bob

watsonx Orchestrate ADK Patterns: Building Agents, Tools, Knowledge Bases, and MCP Integrations with IBM Bob

The future of software development is agentic. Instead of writing isolated scripts, developers are now assembling intelligent systems that combine large language models, tools, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), external APIs, and distributed agent collaboration. IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate Agent Developer Kit (ADK) provides the foundation for building these systems, while IBM Bob […]

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