Tool Use

Stream web search results through a watsonx agent, sync and async.

tool_use.py
"""Run `uv pip install ddgs` to install dependencies."""

import asyncio

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.ibm import WatsonX
from agno.tools.websearch import WebSearchTools

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

agent = Agent(
    model=WatsonX(id="mistralai/mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503"),
    tools=[WebSearchTools()],
    markdown=True,
)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # --- Sync + Streaming ---
    agent.print_response("Whats happening in France?", stream=True)

    # --- Async + Streaming ---
    asyncio.run(agent.aprint_response("Whats happening in France?", stream=True))

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

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

Install dependencies

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

Configure your watsonx project and region

Use a project associated with a watsonx.ai Runtime service and an IBM Cloud API key authorized to access it. Copy the project ID and service URL from your watsonx environment. Check regional model availability before selecting a model.

The example URL below is Frankfurt, which is also the adapter default. Change it to match your project and service region.

export IBM_WATSONX_API_KEY="your_ibm_cloud_api_key"
export IBM_WATSONX_PROJECT_ID="your_project_id"
export IBM_WATSONX_URL="https://eu-de.ml.cloud.ibm.com"

Run the example

Save the code above as tool_use.py, then run:

python tool_use.py

Full source: cookbook/90_models/ibm/watsonx/tool_use.py