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Now Assist skills vs AI Agent

VarunK312799563
Tera Expert

Hi, is there anything that we can do specifically using Now Assist skills and not with AI Agent? While I know the definitions that AI Agent is an autonomous worker and Now Assist skills are Gen AI capabilities like summarization, but we can build an AI Agent to summarize and auto-update the task records as well and do much more.

 

Will the framework for Now Assist slowly change from Skills to AI Agents?

 

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Tanushree Maiti
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Hi @VarunK312799563 

 

It depends on your requirement .

Now Assist provides Gen AI feature - focusing on enhancing productivity across IT, HR, customer service, and development.

where AI agent gives agentic AI flavor -  designed to independently diagnose, plan, and resolve complex, end-to-end tasks with minimal human intervention.

 

Common UseCases of Now Assist:

 
1. IT Service Management (ITSM)
  •  Chat Summarization: Automatically summarizes incident history, reducing the time agents spend reading through long tickets.
  • Resolution Notes Generation: Generates concise resolution notes based on the actions taken, ensuring accurate documentation.
  • Interaction Summarization: Summarizes virtual agent conversations and side-bar discussions to provide context to live agents.
  •  KB Article Generation: Creates knowledge base articles automatically from resolved incidents.
  •  Recommendations: Proposes responses to users, speeding up resolution times. 
 
2. Employee & Customer Service (HRSD/CSM)
  •  Case Summarization: Provides HR agents with immediate summaries of employee cases to speed up resolution.
  •  Virtual Agent Q&A: Delivers direct, conversational answers to employee or customer questions using LLMs, rather than just returning links.
  •  Self-Service Support: Empowers users to resolve issues via chatbots that can understand context and intent better. 
3. Creator & Developer Workflows:
  •  Text-to-Code: Generates code snippets, scripts, and fixes based on natural language prompts, accelerating development, especially in script editors.
  •  Workflow Generation: Assists in creating automation workflows

etc. 

Lots of use cases you will find from courses from Servicenow University : 

Now Assist Courses - ServiceNow University 

 

Refer helpful link:

https://www.servicenow.com/community/now-assist-forum/what-is-the-difference-between-agentic-ai-and-...

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-forum/difference-between-ai-agent-now-assist-and-virt...

 

SN Doc: Agentic Workflows in ServiceNow

What are agentic workflows?

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