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Build real agentic apps tapping CUGA: two dozen working examples on a lightweight harness

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Anatomy of the ibm_cloud_advisor cuga-app: the main.py file layout, an inline @tool (search_ibm_catalog) that calls the IBM Cloud Global Catalog API alongside an MCP web-search tool in one tool list, and a system prompt enforcing "catalog before recommendation."

Most agentic apps start with a week of plumbing before the agent does anything useful.

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It's the open-source agent harness from IBM that handles the planning, the execution loop, the tool calls, and the state plumbing for you. What's left is the part that's yours: which tools the agent can reach, and what you tell it to do. This article walks through one of them, names what the harness takes off your plate, and shows where the same code goes when you need it governed for production. The fair question to ask of anything in this space is what it saves you from writing. It plans before it acts, then executes with a mix of tool calls and generated code (CodeAct).

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