Building a Watsonx.ai Chatbot RAG Server with MCP

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a full-featured Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) server using IBM Watsonx.ai, ChromaDB for vector indexing, and expose it via the Model Context…

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What is the Building a Watsonx.ai Chatbot RAG Server with MCP Server?

Building a Watsonx.ai Chatbot RAG Server with MCP is an MCP project maintained in the ruslanmv/watsonx-rag-mcp-server repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a full-featured Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) server using IBM Watsonx.ai, ChromaDB for vector indexing, and expose it…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Local setup

The project provides a local client configuration using wsl. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.

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How to install the Building a Watsonx.ai Chatbot RAG Server with MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rag_chatbot": {
      "command": "wsl",
      "args": [
        "bash",
        "-c",
        "cd /mnt/c/blog/watsonx-rag-mcp-server && source .venv/bin/activate && python3 server.py"
      ],
      "workingDirectory": "/mnt/c/blog/watsonx-rag-mcp-server"
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.