Basic Agent

Code

1from kern.agent import Agent, RunOutput
2from kern.models.ibm import WatsonX
3
4agent = Agent(model=WatsonX(id="ibm/granite-20b-code-instruct"), markdown=True)
5
6# Get the response in a variable
7# run: RunOutput = agent.run("Share a 2 sentence horror story")
8# print(run.content)
9
10# Print the response in the terminal
11agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story")

Usage

Set up your virtual environment

1uv venv --python 3.12
2source .venv/bin/activate

1uv venv --python 3.12
2.venv\Scripts\activate

Set your API key

1export IBM_WATSONX_API_KEY=xxx
2export IBM_WATSONX_PROJECT_ID=xxx

Install dependencies

1uv pip install -U ibm-watsonx-ai kern-ai

Run Agent

1python cookbook/11_models/ibm/watsonx/basic.py

This example creates an agent using the IBM WatsonX model and prints a response directly to the terminal. The markdown=True parameter tells the agent to format the output as markdown, which can be useful for displaying rich text content.