--- title: IBM Moves Its Bob Coding Agent Inside the Firewall description: IBM has expanded its agentic coding platform Bob to run on-premises, in private and sovereign clouds, and in fully air-gapped environments, following its April... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-moves-its-bob-coding-agent-inside-the-firewall-qlsyzjiqg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: IBM Moves Its Bob Coding Agent Inside the Firewall | daily.dev og:description: IBM has expanded its agentic coding platform Bob to run on-premises, in private and sovereign clouds, and in fully air-gapped environments, following its April... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-moves-its-bob-coding-agent-inside-the-firewall-qlsyzjiqg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QlsYZJiQg.png og:image:alt: IBM Moves Its Bob Coding Agent Inside the Firewall og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # IBM Moves Its Bob Coding Agent Inside the Firewall **[DevOps.com](https://daily.dev/sources/devops)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary IBM has expanded its agentic coding platform Bob to run on-premises, in private and sovereign clouds, and in fully air-gapped environments, following its April SaaS launch. The move targets regulated industries like banking, insurance, and government that cannot send source code to external clouds. Bob coordinates specialized agents for code, testing, documentation, and pipelines, routing tasks across models including Anthropic's Claude, Mistral, and IBM Granite. IBM reports over 80,000 internal employees now use Bob, up from 100 in June 2025, with a reported average 45% productivity gain. The Bob Premium Package for Z also gained self-hosted support with deeper mainframe-specific context. Analysts note self-hosting shifts operational burden to enterprises, who must manage GPU capacity, model updates, audit trails, and governance of agent behavior once inside the firewall. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Can IBM Bob run fully air-gapped with no outside network connection? Yes, IBM Bob now supports fully air-gapped deployments with no outside network connection, in addition to on-premises, private cloud, and sovereign cloud options. Organizations can run supported licensed models locally, or use a hybrid setup that keeps Bob inside their own infrastructure while connecting to supported external model services. This expands on the SaaS version IBM made generally available in April. _Teams weighing self-hosted AI coding agents for compliance reasons can track rollouts like this on daily.dev._ ### Which AI models does IBM Bob route tasks to? IBM Bob routes coding tasks across multiple models including Anthropic's Claude, Mistral open-source models, and IBM's own Granite models, selecting based on accuracy, performance, and cost. It coordinates specialized agents for code, tests, documentation, and pipelines, with approval checkpoints and security controls like sensitive data scanning and real-time policy enforcement. _Developers comparing multi-model agentic coding setups can follow platforms like Bob on daily.dev._ ### What productivity gains has IBM reported from internal use of its Bob coding agent? IBM reports an average 45% productivity gain among surveyed internal users of Bob, its agentic coding platform. Internal adoption grew from 100 developers in June 2025 to over 80,000 employees. These figures come from IBM's own internal rollout rather than independent third-party verification. _Anyone evaluating internal AI coding agent rollouts can benchmark claims like these on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [IBM Bob Takes AI Coding Assistants to the Next Level](https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-bob-takes-ai-coding-assistants-to-the-next-level-y0a8qrbxi) · DevOps.com · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [IBM Bob hits 80,000 developers with 45% productivity gains](https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-bob-hits-80-000-developers-with-45-productivity-gains-licvrcxvh) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability](https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-s-ai-coding-partner-bob-hits-general-availability-25ev6yyzn) · DEVCLASS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [IBM Bob Gets Multi-Agent Muscle and a Cost Dashboard for Enterprise Coding](https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-bob-gets-multi-agent-muscle-and-a-cost-dashboard-for-enterprise-coding-jcpwmocjr) · DevOps.com · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [TCS\+ \| IBM Bob: an AI-powered development partner for the enterprise](https://daily.dev/posts/tcs-ibm-bob-an-ai-powered-development-partner-for-the-enterprise-ugis0dfru) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-moves-its-bob-coding-agent-inside-the-firewall-qlsyzjiqg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"IBM Moves Its Bob Coding Agent Inside the Firewall","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-moves-its-bob-coding-agent-inside-the-firewall-qlsyzjiqg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-moves-its-bob-coding-agent-inside-the-firewall-qlsyzjiqg"},"datePublished":"2026-10-01T20:07:53.181Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T13:43:03.992Z","description":"IBM has expanded its agentic coding platform Bob to run on-premises, in private and sovereign clouds, and in fully air-gapped environments, following its April...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/615897fa5283c382250c5fb5b215f010?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/615897fa5283c382250c5fb5b215f010?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"DevOps.com","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"DevOps.com","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/db8f2265cff0416c878c6e7e92bb8715","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/devops"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-moves-its-bob-coding-agent-inside-the-firewall-qlsyzjiqg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DevOps.com","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/devops"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"IBM Moves Its Bob Coding Agent Inside the Firewall"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ibm-moves-its-bob-coding-agent-inside-the-firewall-qlsyzjiqg#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Can IBM Bob run fully air-gapped with no outside network connection?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, IBM Bob now supports fully air-gapped deployments with no outside network connection, in addition to on-premises, private cloud, and sovereign cloud options. 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