Configuring Now Assist for Creator

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Configuring Now Assist for Creator

    Now Assist for Creator enhances your ServiceNow instance by enabling AI capabilities tailored for creators. To effectively utilize this tool, you need to install it and activate the desired skills and AI agents.

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    Key Features

    • Installation: Verify your access to Now Assist for Creator through your company’s entitlements and request it from the ServiceNow Store for installation.
    • AI Capabilities: Some AI capabilities, like code assist summarization and generation, are enabled by default. Additional skills must be activated in the Now Assist Admin console and may require configuration steps such as role assignments.
    • AI Agents and Workflows: Activate AI agents and agentic workflows in AI Agent Studio, which may also involve selecting a language model and setting permissions.
    • Required Roles: Various roles may be needed based on the features you intend to use, including specific roles for catalog item generation and application creation.

    Key Outcomes

    By following these steps, you will enable enhanced AI functionalities within your ServiceNow environment, allowing for improved application development and workflow automation. Proper role assignments ensure that users have the necessary access to utilize these capabilities effectively.

    To get started using Now Assist for Creator, install Now Assist for Creator. Then turn on the skills, AI agents, or agentic workflows that you want to use.

    Installing Now Assist for Creator

    Check your company's entitlements to verify that you have access to Now Assist for Creator. To start using Now Assist for Creator, you must request it from the ServiceNow® Store. Once approval has been granted, you can install it on your instance. See Install Now Assist for Creator for more information.

    Activating AI capabilities

    After installing Now Assist for Creator, you must turn on the AI capabilities that you want to use. Some AI capabilities are turned on by default, such as the Now Assist for Code skills, including code assist summarization, code assist edit, and code assist generation, and code assist autocomplete. Capabilities that aren't on by default must be turned on or activated in order to use them.

    You can turn on Now Assist for Creator skills in the Now Assist Admin console. When you turn on a skill, you might have to complete additional configuration steps, such as assigning roles and restrictions for who can access the skill. See the product documentation for the skill that you want to activate for additional configuration steps.

    Figure 1. Now Assist for Creator skills in the Now Assist Admin console
    Now Assist for Creator skills inside the Now Assist Admin console, where you can turn skills on and off.

    AI agents and agentic workflows are activated in AI Agent Studio. When you activate an AI agent or agentic workflow, you might have to complete additional configuration steps, such as selecting a large language model (LLM) for the AI agent or agentic workflow and assigning roles and restrictions. See the product documentation for the AI agent or agentic workflow that you want to activate for additional configuration steps.

    Figure 2. Now Assist for Creator AI agents in AI Agent Studio
    Now Assist for Creator AI agents in AI Agent Studio, where you can activate and manage AI agents.

    Required roles

    To use Now Assist for Creator, you might need specific roles. Some roles are specific to the tool that the capability is embedded in, such as catalog_builder_editor to use the catalog item generation skill in Catalog Builder, or flow_designer to use the flow generation skill.

    Other roles might be required for Now Assist experiences, such as the now_assist_panel_user role for creating applications in ServiceNow Studio with the app generation skill.

    Now Assist for Creator has its own role, now.assist.creator, which might be required for using some Now Assist for Creator capabilities. See Now Assist for Creator [now.assist.creator] role for more information.

    To learn what roles are required for the Now Assist for Creator AI capability you want to use, see the product documentation for the capability.