🤖 EY Bobathon - Advanced Bob Training 🤖

📅 Session 1: Advanced Bob Capabilities (120 minutes) - 25th June

1.1 Recap & Quick Poll

• Bob core feature recap
• Quick wins: common pain points and how Bob solved them
• Quick poll: what features are you using most?

1.2 Bob Customization Deep Dive

Extending Bob Through Custom Components

Custom Modes

• Creating custom modes (Mode configuration and best practices)

Skills Development

• Building reusable skills
• Example:
  • Tax-domain skill - Create a skill that analyzes tax authority guidance, notifications, circulars, and similar documents uploaded by users, extracts the underlying business rules and decision logic, and generates structured, implementation-ready pseudocode for software development

MCP Server Integration

• Securely Handling Remote MCP Connections in Bob
• Examples:
  • watsonx Orchestrate MCP server integration
  • watsonx Data Intelligence MCP server - Hands-on

Rules & Guidelines

• Enforcing coding standards
• Domain-specific validation rules

1.3 Subagents

1.4 Code Refactoring - Hands-on Lab

• Multi-file refactoring for .NET Framework → .NET 6/8 migration

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📅 Session 2: (150 mins) - 26th June

2.1 Using Bob with watsonx Orchestrate MCP server - Hands-on Lab

• How to build a fully functional agent and deploy using Bob

2.2 Security & Compliance - Hands-on Lab

• Sensitive data handling in prompts
• PII protection in tax applications
• Bob's role in security code reviews

2.3 Best Practices / Productivity Hacks

• Context management for large projects
• Using Bob's memory across sessions and how to leverage modes
• Using Bob's context awareness for large codebases
• Bob shell - non-interactive mode

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🏆 Bobathon

🚀 Advanced Techniques & Bobathon Tasks

Custom mode creation for tax workflows

• Creating custom tax based workflows skills

Examples:

• tax-domain skill

  • Teaches Bob terminology like nexus, VAT reverse-charge, and the decimal -not- float rule

• dotnet-migration skill

  • Gives Bob a cheat sheet of every namespace replacement and pattern change needed
  • Harnessing Autonomous Self-Correction loop