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watsonx Code Assistant

Agent

A coding agent for the stack that is not greenfield.

IBM watsonx Code Assistant lives in the IDE and on mainframe/modernization paths. It will explain COBOL. It will not pretend the system is a todo app.

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Install watsonx Code Assistant from the VS Code / Eclipse marketplace

By IBM

Runtime: IDE extension + watsonx
Autonomy: Suggests and explains; you apply

www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-code-assistant

Open
The file — including the old one.
Explain
What it actually does.
Suggest
A modernization or a test.
Apply
You still own the change.

IDE extension + watsonx

How it runs

Four beats, then it hands back.

1
Open
The file — including the old one.
2
Explain
What it actually does.
3
Suggest
A modernization or a test.
4
Apply
You still own the change.

Maker

IBM

@ibm · Company

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