Vibe Admin

[pbeltranl]

Vibe Coding is text to code.

What about Vibe Admin: text to admin?

Think about it: how much of your day as a ServiceNow admin is spent navigating lists, setting filters, clicking through modules, just to answer a simple question or update a few records?

What if you could just ask in plain English (or your language) and get it done?

Here's how we made this work for ServiceNow:

1. Everything in ServiceNow is a table.
2. Move the database from behind to the front of the ServiceNow API -> now you can query against the GraphQL/REST Table API, respecting business rules, ACLs, etc., using standard SQL (ANSI '92) for full CRUD operations.
3. Connect that SQL layer to Claude Code (the best Vibe Coding tool for me right now).
4. Ask Claude for anything and let it write and execute SQL to administer your instance. Start with a PDI  as you'll want to experiment freely.

That's how this free VS Code agent works: Pocket Admin

It was originally built to shield ServiceNow developers from the complexity of managing their PDIs by putting Vibe Admin in the Vibe Coding loop so they could focus on building, not administrating.

If you're an admin, I think it's worth a look. And please, don't hold back. Be as brutal as you want with your feedback.

[Mark Manders]

Or just create favorites and only have one click to reach what you need. That limits the annoying hallucinations.

[pbeltranl]

Great point about hallucinations, it's a fair concern. But Claude Code isn't a black box. It reasons out loud: you can see every SQL statement it writes and executes in real time, so you have full visibility at every step. When it makes a mistake (and it does), you can watch it investigate the data model, correct itself, and move on. Nothing happens that you can't see or review.

But here's where it gets interesting. The real value of an admin isn't clicking through favorites, it's the knowledge behind what those favorites point to. Creating reports, designing workflows, configuring business rules. That's where expertise matters.

So I recorded a live session. One prompt:

"Create a stacked bar chart report on the incident table showing active incidents grouped by priority and stacked by state. Include data labels, legend, and set the title to 'Incidents by Priority & State' with subtitle 'Active incidents analysis'. Then pin it as a blue favorite in my navigation bar so I can access it with one click."

Two minutes later, Claude had built the full stacked bar report, with the right filter, grouping, labels, legend, and pinned it as a blue favorite. One click access included.

The session (animated gif) is uncut and unedited, so yes, two minutes of watching an AI think and write SQL isn't exactly thrilling. But that's the point: it's real, not a polished demo. You can see exactly how it works, including when it stumbles and recovers.

And of course, as with anything AI generates, the admin should review before shipping to production. That's just good practice regardless of the tool.

[PabloB053269334]

After using Vibe Admin for weeks, I keep coming back to this.

By now nobody seriously doubts Vibe Coding works. In many cases it's better than humans. That's not controversial anymore.

So what if Vibe Admin is just Vibe Coding in SQL? Nothing more, nothing less.

If Vibe Coding works and it particularly shines with SQL, what's stopping an LLM from managing a ServiceNow instance the same way a human would, but faster and better? I don't see it.

Vibe Admin is still in its quiet adoption phase. Look at the last 30 days:

100 installs in the last month. 484 total. Nearly 60% of everyone who lands on the page installs it. No ads, no campaigns, no nothing. And not a single person crying it broke their instance.

Most likely PDIs. But that's exactly the point, that's where every good idea in ServiceNow starts.