GenAI Commons

Content Type: Module
Categories: Connectors,Artificial Intelligence

Overview

The starting point to create agentic apps, a Conversational UI - chatbot or just include GenAI text or image generation in your app. When you download the GenAICommons module you can:

  1. Integrate with any LLM and knowledge base
  2. Create a conversational UI by using the pages & snippets from our ConversationalUI module
  3. Observe your GenAI interactions by inspecting the traces they create with the Traceability pages from our ConversationalUI module
  4. Monitor your token consumption with the Token Consumption Monitor from our ConversationalUI module
  5. Integrate directly with Mendix Cloud GenAI Models and Knowledge Bases

This module is 100% compatible with the Mendix Cloud GenAI Connector, Amazon Bedrock Connector or (Azure) OpenAI Connector to integrate with these platforms. When you download them, those models will be automatically detected and can be used in conjunction with this module. You can also implement your own connector to other models/providers to integrate this with our GenAI capabilities.

Typical use cases:

  • Create agentic apps and do intelligent automation by implementing function calling and the ReAct pattern
  • Ground your model in data by connecting to Knowledge Bases and applying Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Examples that include this module.

  • AI Bot Starter App
  • Agent Builder Starter App
  • RFP Assistant Starter App
  • Blank GenAI App

For more information, visit the official documentation.

 

Contact Us

For support and questions, feel free to reach out via email: genai-components-feedback@mendix.com or Community Slack.

Documentation

See official documentation:

Dependencies:

 

For implementation examples, see the GenAI showcase app.

Releases

Version: 5.6.0
Framework Version: 10.24.13
Release Notes:

An attribute Schema was added to the Tool entity and the attribute Input to the ToolCall entity. Both attributes are specifically for external tools, for example MCP tools, which contain the raw tool schema and raw input generated by the model respectively. In addition the ArgumentInput and EnumValue entities and related microflows were removed as they are no longer needed. Ensure to update other connector modules as well to be compatible with this version, especially MCP Client if applicable.

Version: 5.5.0
Framework Version: 10.24.13
Release Notes:

Some small domain model changes such as the addition of Agent version information to the trace entity were added in order to persist this information even after an agent (version) was deleted.

 

The module was upgraded to 10.24.13.

Version: 5.4.1
Framework Version: 10.24.0
Release Notes:

We fixed an issue that caused tool calls to fail if the StoreTraces constant was set to false.

Version: 5.4.0
Framework Version: 10.24.0
Release Notes:

Domain model and microflow changes to support new features in ConversationalUI v5.3.0 (Observability for AI Traces) including:

- a new MCPSpan entity

- a new MCPServerName attribute for Tools.

 

Note that previously created traces in version 5.3.0 might not be displayed correctly due to data inconsistencies after this update.

Version: 5.3.0
Framework Version: 10.24.0
Release Notes: We enabled a capability for traceability by storing each LLM invocation (including tool calling) in the Mendix database to be observed by a new role TraceMonitoring. Storing traces is enabled by default, but can be disabled via the constant StoreTraces. Additionally, Response objects now contain a random GUID if the connector did not map an Id from the model's response. With the TraceCleanUpAfterDays constant, a scheduled event or alternatively with a microflow stored traces can also be cleaned up based on preferences.
Version: 5.2.0
Framework Version: 10.24.0
Release Notes: The Request_AddTool Java action was moved to the MCP Client module and renamed to Request_AddMCPTool. We also added several smaller actions to support connector building for MCP Clients.
Version: 5.1.0
Framework Version: 10.24.0
Release Notes: * Actions and entities were added for connector builders so they can use Tool calling also to only pass arguments from the model to a microflow. This is relevant for cases where the microflow is not the direct tool, but just acts as a proxy to call an external tool (for example in MCP Client use cases). Namely the entities ArgumentInput and EnumValue, and the actions Request_AddTool, ArgumentInput_CreateAndAdd, EnumValue_CreateAndAdd were added.
Version: 5.0.0
Framework Version: 10.24.0
Release Notes: Module has been upgraded to Mendix Studio Pro version 10.24
Version: 4.3.0
Framework Version: 10.21.0
Release Notes: *Tool microflows can now accept multiple (primitive) input parameters of various types (such as Boolean, Enumeration, Integer, DateTime, Decimal). *When a tool microflow call fails, the model receives the error message (for example if the input does not match the parameters). The chat interaction is thus continued and based on the use case (and model configurations) the model will inform the user about backend problems. *The attribute "Arguments" of the ToolCall entity was replaced by a new entity "Argument". All platform-supported connectors were made compatible with the tool changes. *The Embeddings_ChunkCollection interface now takes care of creating the Usage object as well as adding the duration of the request to the EmbeddingsResponse. All platform-supported connectors were made compatible with this change.
Version: 4.2.0
Framework Version: 10.21.0
Release Notes: Several actions were removed from connectors and instead centralized in this module to get started more quickly for knowledge base retrieval operations.