Agentic standards with watsonx Orchestrate

Overview

This learning path is designed for developers who want to build interoperable, secure, and reusable AI agents by using open standards and orchestration capabilities in watsonx Orchestrate. The content focuses on tool standardization, cross-agent communication, and integration with external services to support enterprise-grade workflows.

With this learning path, you are able to:

• Learn how to create MCP-compliant tools and use these tools in watsonx Orchestrate by using the watsonx Orchestrate Agent Development Kit for secure and reusable automation.
• Understand how to expose MCP tools through the ContextForge MCP Gateway, enabling standardized integration with external services to simplify task orchestration.
• Gain skills to implement the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) standard, allowing external agents to interoperate seamlessly with watsonx Orchestrate in multi-agent workflows.
• Explore how to build and orchestrate external agents by using OpenAI APIs, integrating these agents into watsonx Orchestrate to create scalable and modular AI systems.

To get hands-on experience with watsonx Orchestrate and complete the step-by-step tutorials in this learning path, sign up for the free 30-day trial and install the watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition.