4. Cloudant Tool (IBM Cloudant)

OverviewConnects AEX agents to IBM Cloudant as a JSON document store for operational, configuration, and conversation data.

Key capabilities

• CRUD on JSON documents.
• Query documents using selectors and indexes.

• Manage secondary indexes to speed up queries.

Functions

• create_document – Creates a new document in the database.
• read_document – Reads a document from the database.
• update_document – Updates an existing document.
• delete_document – Deletes a document.
• query_database – Queries the database using a selector.
• create_index – Creates an index in the database.

• delete_index – Deletes an existing index.

Configuration

• Secrets: CLOUDANT_API_KEY, CLOUDANT_URL

• Config: DATABASE_NAME

Typical AEX use cases

• Persisting agent state and conversation context.

• Storing routing rules, mappings, and other lightweight domain data.