Hello . I have built a  custom skill with Watson Orchestrate which returns a json and calls an API from an application deployed on Cirrus . The problem I have is that the user must be logged in with his IBM w3 account . When I call the skill I have the problem that Watson needs to pass the authentication layers before being able to make the call. How do I pass the details for the login account ? Do I use bearer token and add it in the OpenApi spec  or do I use Ouath2Credentials ? I will attach below my openAPI spec . I have tried using a bearer token so far but when I try pasting the token in the connection section of the skill it fails . 

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Stefan Ciufudean
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Hello Stefan, you are referring to skills, can you confirm you are using the legacy version with skill studio?

Can you consider trying the same with the new agentic version? This is likely to make it all much easier and we will be able to support your use-case much better.

Thank you,

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Laurent de Clermont-Tonnerre
watsonx Orchestrate Product Manager
IBM
San Francisco
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri September 05, 2025 06:32 AM
From: Stefan Ciufudean
Subject: Watson Orchestrate Custom Skill

Hello . I have built a  custom skill with Watson Orchestrate which returns a json and calls an API from an application deployed on Cirrus . The problem I have is that the user must be logged in with his IBM w3 account . When I call the skill I have the problem that Watson needs to pass the authentication layers before being able to make the call. How do I pass the details for the login account ? Do I use bearer token and add it in the OpenApi spec  or do I use Ouath2Credentials ? I will attach below my openAPI spec . I have tried using a bearer token so far but when I try pasting the token in the connection section of the skill it fails . 

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Stefan Ciufudean
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