
Before you can start building AI applications using watsonx.ai Flows Engine,

**1.** Sign up for a free account.

**2.** Download & install the [CLI](/docs/installation).

**3.** [Authenticate](/docs/authentication) your account.

Then you can start building using on of our many tutorials:
 
- [Build a Tool Calling Agent](https://levelup.gitconnected.com/build-tool-calling-agents-with-langgraph-and-ibm-watsonx-ai-flows-engine-2b7902a82e50)
- [Build a RAG application](https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/awb-build-rag-application-watsonx-ai-flows-engine/)
- [Build a web page summarization tool](https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/awb-build-web-page-summarization-tool-watsonx-ai-flows-engine/)
- [Using different LLMs in watsonx.ai Flows Engine](https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/awb-using-different-llms-in-watsonx-ai-flows-engine/)
  - [IBM Granite](https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/awb-using-ibm-granite-llms-in-watsonx-ai-flows-engine/)
  - [Meta Llama 3.1](https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/awb-using-meta-llama-3-1-in-watsonx-ai-flows-engine/)
  - [Mistral Large](https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/awb-using-mistral-ai-llms-in-watsonx-ai-flows-engine)
- [Implement LLM guardrails for RAG applications](https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/awb-how-to-implement-llm-guardrails-for-rag-applications/)

More tutorials will be coming soon, requests for specific topics? Please let us know on [Discord](https://ibm.biz/wxflows-discord).


Learn how to initialize new projects using the watsonx.ai Flows Engine CLI on your local machine.

Getting Started

Overview

Welcome watsonx.ai Flows Engine

Installation

Install watsonx.ai Flows Engine

Authentication

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Agents

Building AI Agents with watsonx.ai Flows Engines

Using the CLI

Learn how to use the CLI

Building flows

Building flows using the flow language

Connect Vector Databases

Connect to different Vector Databases

Consume flows

Consume flows using a SDK

Connect to watsonx.ai

Learn

Learn how to use watsonx.ai Flows Engine

completion

contextFromTopN

graniteChatPrompt

hallucinationScore

promptFromTopN

ragAnswerInput

ragInfo

ragScoreInfo

ragScoreMessage

templatedPrompt

topNDocs

wx_promptLabCompletion

Flows engine steps

Learn what steps are available to start building flows

enum AIEngine

input GenParametersInput

interface HallucinationScore

scalar JSON

type MessageOutput

type Prompt

type PromptContext

type RagAnswerInput

type ScoreInput

enum SearchEngine

interface TopNDocs

interface _Normalize

type _Normalized

Types