--- title: Testing Conversations in Orchestrate via Agentic Skill description: A new watsonx-orchestrate skill for IBM Bob enables developers to test AI agents directly in live IBM watsonx Orchestrate environments without manual... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/testing-conversations-in-orchestrate-via-agentic-skill-cgac5p6f3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Testing Conversations in Orchestrate via Agentic Skill | daily.dev og:description: A new watsonx-orchestrate skill for IBM Bob enables developers to test AI agents directly in live IBM watsonx Orchestrate environments without manual... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/testing-conversations-in-orchestrate-via-agentic-skill-cgac5p6f3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CgAc5P6f3.png og:image:alt: Testing Conversations in Orchestrate via Agentic Skill 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. # Testing Conversations in Orchestrate via Agentic Skill **[Niklas Heidloff](https://daily.dev/sources/heidloff)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new watsonx-orchestrate skill for IBM Bob enables developers to test AI agents directly in live IBM watsonx Orchestrate environments without manual workflows. The skill supports both single-turn and multi-turn conversation testing by wrapping the Orchestrate REST API in a bash script (wxo-chat.sh) that bypasses the interactive CLI. Bob can derive test cases from agent YAML definitions (starter prompts), execute smoke tests, evaluate results, and generate a test report. The skill also integrates optionally with the watsonx Orchestrate ADK MCP Server. Safety guardrails ensure read-only prompts are used by default unless the user opts into write operations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Testing watsonx Orchestrate Agents with Bob](https://daily.dev/posts/testing-watsonx-orchestrate-agents-with-bob-tarzasivb) · Niklas Heidloff · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [New Agentic Skill for watsonx Orchestrate](https://daily.dev/posts/new-agentic-skill-for-watsonx-orchestrate-m9slcta3c) · Niklas Heidloff · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Accessing watsonx Orchestrate from Bob with CLI](https://daily.dev/posts/accessing-watsonx-orchestrate-from-bob-with-cli-swnkpeyoq) · Niklas Heidloff · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#agentic-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/agentic-ai), [#tdd](https://daily.dev/tags/tdd) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/testing-conversations-in-orchestrate-via-agentic-skill-cgac5p6f3) ```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":"Testing Conversations in Orchestrate via Agentic Skill","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/testing-conversations-in-orchestrate-via-agentic-skill-cgac5p6f3","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/testing-conversations-in-orchestrate-via-agentic-skill-cgac5p6f3"},"datePublished":"2026-07-01T03:23:51.286Z","dateModified":"2026-07-01T03:24:13.922Z","description":"A new watsonx-orchestrate skill for IBM Bob enables developers to test AI agents directly in live IBM watsonx Orchestrate environments without manual...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/47ae74a5cd5d7a42b6b49214f2e8856d?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/47ae74a5cd5d7a42b6b49214f2e8856d?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Niklas Heidloff","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":"Niklas Heidloff","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--1T53PJFj--/f_auto/v1743317445/logos/heidloff","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/heidloff"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/testing-conversations-in-orchestrate-via-agentic-skill-cgac5p6f3","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"mcp,agentic-ai,tdd","timeRequired":"PT9M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Niklas Heidloff","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/heidloff"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Testing Conversations in Orchestrate via Agentic Skill"}]} ```