What's changing? Beginning July 9, 2026, ServiceNow will begin rolling out third-party model providers as the default for out-of-the-box (OOTB) Now Assist skills and AI agents. The rollout is tied to individual store app release schedules, differe...
Otto (Now Assist) is the name given to experiences powered by AI at ServiceNow. It empowers your agents/customers to get help, solve problems, and drive resolution. Note: Otto is replacing the Now Assist name in our product and content. In some ca...
Hey everyone, We're ServiceNow's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. We're a team of builders who've gained deep AI deployment expertise at tier 1 technology companies and research labs. We're certified experts on the ServiceNow AI Platform...
What is MCP Server Console? MCP Server Console is where ServiceNow administrators build and manage MCP servers: collections of tools that external AI agents and MCP clients can discover and call. Each server is a curated catalog of capabilities ...
If you are wondering where to start with your Otto Implementation journey, below is a curated list of resources that will help you get started. Note: Now Assist is being renamed Otto. Please pardon our dust as we make this change throughout our prod...
As of the Australia Patch 3 release + Now Assist in Virtual Agent v19.0 store app, we provide new configurations and table that allow you to configure and measure feedback (thumbs up/thumbs down), including text-based granular feedback, from your Vir...
Autonomous workforce FAQ and troubleshooting Last updated September 2026 What is an autonomous workforce and AI specialist? An autonomous workforce is a collection of various AI specialists each specializing in different domains. An AI specialist i...
ServiceNow AI Agents: Build, Operations & Governance Guide Australia release · Varun Gupta Most #AI agent problems in the field are not model problems. They are the same four questions asked too late: what should I have checked before building, why i...
What is the Group Action Framework (GAF)? Group Action Framework is used as a framework to assist in building workflows that utilize insights derived from sets of related data such as incident and case records. It utilizes generative AI and machin...
Here we’re going to showcase how to set up a Microsoft Copilot Studio Agent to use a ServiceNow Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server tool. Credits: This is not my tutorial; I’m just going through the steps again as this was a frequent customer ask a...
Use the File Upload tool for a situation where you want to feed additional documents, information, or context to your AI agent. The AI agent will leverage the uploaded file during runtime to help complete its assigned task or objective. It's import...
What's changing? Beginning July 9, 2026, ServiceNow will begin rolling out third-party model providers as the default for out-of-the-box (OOTB) Now Assist skills and AI agents. The rollout is tied to individual store app release schedules, differe...
We're delighted to announce five brand new assets designed to help you implement AI agents in your organization. These guides are written by ServiceNow experts with real-world experience in implementing our products. To help navigate the leading-ed...
Enable seamless cross-organizational cooperation for the digital AI Agent workforce. Leverage an ecosystem of agent interoperability with A2A. Equip ServiceNow AI Agents with best-of-breed external tools via MCP, expanding AI's reach and avoiding re...
Sneak Peek!: ServiceNow introduces a new agentic capability, AI Specialists, that join your team, work your incidents, and continuously improve over time. The first delivered out-of-box AI Specialist, the L1 Service Desk AI Specialist, is now general...
AI Agents FAQ & Troubleshooting Last updated July 2026 for Australia Patch 4 *Safe harbor applies for forward-looking statements* What’s an AI Agent at ServiceNow? AI agents are autonomous systems that interact with their environment to gather d...
Tracking Now Assist Usage: Your Complete Guide to Measuring ROI and Adoption If you are responsible for managing Now Assist in your ServiceNow environment, you have likely asked yourself these questions: Which teams are using Now Assist the m...
What is Now Assist Guardian? Trustworthy and responsible AI empowers customers and participants in the AI lifecycle to make informed decisions. Now Assist Guardian is a built-in platform component that ships with the Generative AI Controller and is k...
In this tutorial, we’re going to go over MCP client setup to connect to a ServiceNow MCP Server via OAuth 2.0. I’m going to use the HRSD MCP Server (released August 2026) and demo the use case against the HR Knowledge Search tool. I’m going to use ...
What is MCP Server Console? MCP Server Console is ServiceNow's purpose-built control plane for publishing and governing AI agent connections. It lets administrators package ServiceNow capabilities — including Now Assist Skills, Knowledge Graph, Sub...
The Touchless Enterprise · Part 2 of 6 Read the instancebefore you design the agent. Harvest, filter, score, visualise — a method for turning an instance into a decision, in that order and no other. By Timo Weber (Senior AI Solution Architect) and ...
Otto (Now Assist) is the name given to experiences powered by AI at ServiceNow. It empowers your agents/customers to get help, solve problems, and drive resolution. Note: Otto is replacing the Now Assist name in our product and content. In some ca...
In Q1 2026, we introduced the Use an AI agent Flow action for Subflows. If within the context of AI agent tooling, you can use the AI agent’s Subflow Tool to invoke another AI agent within the same execution thread. The invocation pattern would loo...
Ana Clara Pessan ServiceNow Partner Talent Strategist ana.pessan@servicenow.com March, 5, 2025 In the world of artificial intelligence, the evolution of workflows is transforming how companies operate. Within this landscape, ServiceNow is leading...
Why Assignment Group Prediction Is Hard If you've worked in ITSM for any length of time, you know the pain of misrouted incidents. A user submits a ticket with "Workday timesheet not saving" and it bounces between the Service Desk, the Application De...
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