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Code

cookbook/11_models/ibm/watsonx/basic.py
from agno.agent import Agent, RunOutput
from agno.models.ibm import WatsonX

agent = Agent(model=WatsonX(id="ibm/granite-20b-code-instruct"), markdown=True)

# Get the response in a variable
# run: RunOutput = agent.run("Share a 2 sentence horror story")
# print(run.content)

# Print the response in the terminal
agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story")

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Usage

1

Set up your virtual environment

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

Set your API key

export IBM_WATSONX_API_KEY=xxx
export IBM_WATSONX_PROJECT_ID=xxx
3

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U ibm-watsonx-ai agno
4

Run Agent

python 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.