As a playbook author in Workflow Studio, configure AI Agents to perform a playbook activity.
About this task
Agentic Playbooks come preconfigured with AI Agents that are integral to the Playbook Activity Assist agentic workflow. The workflow works seamlessly with the preconfigured AI Agents, without adding any
additional agents. However, you can also add your custom agent to the activity according to your requirements. To make a playbook agentic, simply enable the AI Agents for your playbook activity and provide
clear instructions for the AI Agents to perform the tasks.
You can set up AI Agents to automatically complete activities or provide recommendations for you to review, edit, and approve.
You can enable AI Agents for all default activities. For custom activities, make sure to enable AI Agents in the activity definitions and then in playbook. You can configure the following
activities to be completed independently by AI Agents:
To learn more about activity definitions, see
Activity definitions.
Procedure
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In Workflow Studio, open the playbook that you want to use AI Agents for.
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Select and open the side panel for the activity that you want AI Agents to perform.
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On the AI Agents tab, select how you want to use the AI Agents.

Note: Test the playbook extensively to make sure that the AI Agents can complete the activities independently. Select
View progress while testing the playbook to see the agent
activities on the
Now Assist panel.
For activities that can't be completed independently by the AI Agents, the system saves the data. The activity is completed if the data matches any Wait for condition in your
playbook.
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In the AI Agents field, select a custom agent that you want to add to the activity.
If you have custom agents that are specifically built for your use case, add the custom agents to the activity. To maintain accuracy, add a maximum of 5-6 custom agents.
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In the AI Agent Instructions field, enter instructions for the task that you want the AI Agent to perform.
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Select Save and close.
What to do next
Repeat as needed for any other activities that you want an AI Agent to help perform.
After the playbook is complete, test the playbook. For information, see Test a playbook.