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IBM watsonx.ai Granite for Gemini CLI

io.github.nirholas/ibm-watsonx

IBM watsonx.ai MCP by three.ws: chat, text generation, embeddings, and tokenization.

client:Gemini CLI transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install IBM watsonx.ai Granite in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ibm-watsonx": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@three-ws/ibm-watsonx-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WATSONX_API_KEY": "<WATSONX_API_KEY>",
        "WATSONX_PROJECT_ID": "<WATSONX_PROJECT_ID>",
        "WATSONX_SPACE_ID": "<WATSONX_SPACE_ID>",
        "WATSONX_URL": "<WATSONX_URL>",
        "WATSONX_MODEL_ID": "<WATSONX_MODEL_ID>",
        "WATSONX_EMBED_MODEL_ID": "<WATSONX_EMBED_MODEL_ID>",
        "WATSONX_API_VERSION": "<WATSONX_API_VERSION>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs

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