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# Example prompts for MCP for Enterprise Architecture
# Example prompts for MCP for Enterprise Architecture {#ariaid-title1}
Release version: Australia
Updated October 12, 2026
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## Summary of Example prompts for MCP for Enterprise Architecture
This guide presents high-value example prompts for the Multi-Cloud Platform (MCP) tailored to Enterprise Architecture customers using the Australia release version (updated October 12, 2026).
Each prompt includes the typical role that would ask it and the actionable outcome it drives by leveraging MCP for Enterprise Architecture tools.
The AI assistant integrates multiple MCP tools to deliver comprehensive responses based on the specific architecture data within your ServiceNow instance.
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## Key Features
* **Cost Reduction Analysis:** Identify applications to retire or consolidate for targeted budget cuts, with impact analysis on dependencies and rationalization scoring.
* **Risk Prioritization:** Highlight strategic business capabilities tied to applications at high technology risk or approaching end-of-life within 12 months, enabling focused remediation funding.
* **Application Consolidation:** Discover multiple applications supporting the same capability and recommend a strategic platform using business fit, technical health, and cost metrics.
* **Modernization Roadmap:** Develop sequenced, dependency-aware modernization plans for specific domains to prevent critical breaks during transitions.
* **Executive Summaries:** Generate comprehensive briefs covering business value, cost, risk, dependencies, and disposition recommendations for architecture or budget reviews.
* **Change Impact Analysis:** Compare architecture diagram versions to instantly reveal changes and their effects on dependent components.
* **Standards Compliance Review:** Assess solution architectures against approved technology standards and reference architectures, identifying deviations and associated risks.
* **Design Validation:** Verify if target-state diagrams include applications flagged for retirement or high risk, preventing new designs from relying on unstable components.
* **CMDB Alignment:** Ensure architecture diagrams reflect current CMDB data by detecting missing components, undocumented integrations, and outdated relationships.
* **Resilience and Security Assessment:** Identify single points of failure, security gaps, and integration bottlenecks with concrete recommendations prior to build phases.
## Key Outcomes
* Enable data-driven decisions to optimize application portfolios, reduce costs, and mitigate technology risks.
* Support strategic planning with prioritized lists that align IT investments with business capabilities and risks.
* Accelerate architecture reviews and modernization planning via automated impact analyses and compliance checks.
* Improve architecture accuracy and trustworthiness by synchronizing diagrams with operational CMDB data.
* Enhance design quality with early detection of risks, ensuring resilience and security before implementation.
* Save time and effort by producing decision-ready summaries and analyses quickly, facilitating faster stakeholder alignment.
High-value prompts that you can use with MCP for Enterprise Architecture, with the role that typically asks each one and the outcome it drives.
To answer these prompts, your AI assistant can combine several MCP for EA tools in one response. The results depend on the EA data in your instance. For the tools that are available, see [Explore MCP for Enterprise Architecture](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/mXD0C5rKcSgWEdDGUVKC2A "MCP for Enterprise Architecture provides enterprise architects and application portfolio managers direct access to business application insights, capability mappings, architectural relationships, and rationalization data from the AI client they already use, without opening the ServiceNow instance.").
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| Prompt | Asked by | Outcome |
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| If I had to cut 15% of our application spend this year, which applications should we retire or consolidate, and what would break if we did? | Application portfolio owner | Defensible cost-reduction plan that combines rationalization scores, redundancy by capability, and dependency impact in one answer. |
| Which of our strategic business capabilities depend on applications with high technology risk or end-of-life components in the next 12 months? | Business capability owner | Prioritized risk list that shows where the business strategy is exposed, so remediation funding goes to what matters most. |
| Where do we have multiple applications supporting the same capability, and which one should be our strategic platform? | Enterprise architect | Consolidation opportunities backed by scores for business fit, technical health, and cost, lowering complexity and license spend. |
| Build a sequenced modernization roadmap for the Finance domain: what to retire, migrate, or invest in first, so that no critical dependency breaks along the way. | Enterprise architect | Actionable, dependency-aware roadmap that turns portfolio analysis into an execution plan. |
| Prepare an executive brief on application covering business value, cost, risk, capability coverage, dependencies, and a recommended disposition. | Application or capability owner preparing for an architecture review board or budget review | Decision-ready summary in minutes instead of days of pulling data from multiple views. |
| Compare the current and previous versions of this architecture diagram. What changed, and what is the impact on dependent applications, services, and capabilities? | Enterprise architect | Instant change impact analysis, so reviewers see the consequences of a design change without manually tracing every connection. |
| Review this solution architecture against our approved technology standards and reference architectures. Where does it deviate, and what risks do those deviations introduce? | Architecture review board member | Faster, more consistent design reviews that catch nonstandard technology, unapproved vendors, or policy violations before approval. |
| Does this target-state diagram include any applications flagged for retirement, high technology risk, or end-of-life components? | Application portfolio owner | Prevention of new designs that build on components the organization is already trying to retire. |
| Does this diagram match what actually exists in our CMDB? Show me missing components, undocumented integrations, and outdated relationships. | Enterprise architect | Trustworthy diagrams, by closing the gap between documented architecture and the operational landscape. |
| Identify single points of failure, security gaps, and integration bottlenecks in this architecture, and suggest how to fix them. | Solution architect or capability owner | Stronger resilience and security designs, with concrete improvement recommendations before the design goes into build. |
[Table 1. Example prompts]
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**Related reference**
* [MCP for Enterprise Architecture tool parameters](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/rfmgIDzRQUO9~REKLSXGGg "Parameters that each MCP for Enterprise Architecture tool accepts, and how to phrase prompts that return the data you need.")