Watson: An AI Personal Assistant built with Embabel Framework
Watson
A couple of weeks ago, I discovered Embabel, a framework for developing agents in the JVM, from the creator of Spring. This simple description was enough to make me feel I should give it a try.
As a proof of concept, I built Watson, an AI personal assistant to help me with my daily tasks. Basically, I wanted a multi-agent setup with a team of specialists, so I defined the following team:
- Watson is the default agent for small talk conversations.
- The Financial agent has access to an MCP server I created for my personal broker, so it can get information from my personal portfolio and help me think about and discuss my financial decisions.
- The English Tutor agent helps me with English corrections when I want to practice my speaking skills.
- The Knowledge agent can access my personal Obsidian vault, and can support me in getting information from there.
- The IT news collector can handle my requests for news, searching the web and sending me the information that it got. This agent has access to Brave Search MCP Server.
After playing for a while with this framework, I can say that it is solid, readable and pretty customizable. What I appreciate the most is the annotations system, which allows us to write beautiful and simple code. In addition, it has a strong community which works every day to maintain and strengthen the ecosystem.
At this point, with 1.5.1 being the latest version, I consider it mature enough to be used to write production applications and I do not have any doubt that it’s going to continue improving in the future.
You can find the project in this GitHub repository.