Aditya Tirumala@asteroiddestroyer

Enterprise agent development on IBM watsonx Orchestrate is broken. Developers spend hours writing Python tool functions by hand, crafting ADK YAML from scratch, wiring MCP server connections manually, and debugging deployment errors — before they even touch the actual business logic. Most teams simply do not have time for this overhead. AgentForge solves this with a single sentence. You type: "Agent that pulls invoices from Gmail and posts them to SAP" — and AgentForge, powered entirely by IBM Bob, builds and deploys a fully working agent in roughly 90 seconds. Bob handles the complete pipeline automatically. First, it parses your intent and generates a structured agent spec. Then it writes all Python tool functions with correct type annotations and docstrings for Orchestrate compatibility. Next it generates the full ADK YAML configuration, validated against the Orchestrate schema. Then it configures all required MCP server connections based on what the tools need. Before deployment, Bob runs a dry-run test suite, catches any errors, self-corrects, and re-tests. Finally, the agent is deployed live into your watsonx Orchestrate chat environment — ready to use. No manual YAML. No hand-written tools. No debugging at midnight. IBM Bob is not a helper in this project — Bob is the core engine. All six Bob modes are used naturally across the pipeline: reasoning through intent, generating repository-aware code, producing valid configuration, inferring dependencies, self-correcting on test failures, and executing multi-step deployment. The full Bob session export shows every task and decision point, providing a complete audit trail for judges. The business value is real: a process that took expert developers six to eight hours now takes 90 seconds — and becomes accessible to anyone, not just those who have memorized ADK schemas. AgentForge is the natural language layer that enterprise agent development has been missing.

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