You can import the agents and tools you build with the ADK in a local environment using the watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition. It allows you to test them before publishing on your remote environment of watsonx Orchestrate instance.

The watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition provides a local server of watsonx Orchestrate and also provides access to watsonx Orchestrate server commands, which assist in debugging the agents and tools you create. These commands help identify errors and give you control over the requests made by the agents and skills during use

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Prerequisites to use a local environment

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Accessing Services

After issuing the server start command, the following services are accessible:

  • UI: http://localhost:3000/chat-lite
  • OpenAPI Docs: http://localhost:4321/docs. This API documentation is also available in the watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition APIs.
  • API Base URL: http://localhost:4321/api/v1

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Server commands

The ADK includes exclusive commands to manage your local server of watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition using the CLI:

CommandDescription
server stopStops the running server and all ibm-watsonx-orchestrate Docker images
server resetStops the server, stops all ibm-watsonx-orchestrate Docker images, and resets all data volumes
server logsDisplays the server logs
chat startLaunches the UI service and the chat web UI in a browser