Consolidated page of all release notes for Build Agent from Xanadu to Australia.
How to use this page
To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Build Agent release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Australia.
Tip: If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release."
Important information for upgrading Build Agent to Australia
Before you upgrade to Australia, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
New features
Between your current release family and Australia, new features were introduced for Build Agent.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
- [Placeholder link text to key australia-patch-2]
- MCP Client integration
- Connect Build Agent to external MCP servers to bring tools and data sources directly into your build workflow. External resources participate alongside Build Agent on the ServiceNow AI Platform, which helps reduce
context switching and manual data transfer between
tools.
- Create workflows, agents, and skills
- Turn business requirements into fully configured agents, skills, and agentic workflows for your custom applications. Build Agent inspects
the existing tables, roles, business rules, and metadata in your app to create tailored in-app
agents
and
tools.
- Test Agent for Build Agent
- Use Test Agent
to execute Automated Test Framework (ATF) tests right from the Build Agent chat panel for test artifacts created in the same session. When tests fail, the generated tests and
test results are saved in the standard ATF record tables and can be scheduled for continued regression
testing for the app. If tests are edited by the test
agent after troubleshooting, those edits are automatically saved to the test records.
- UI validation tool
- Validate user interface output automatically during Build Agent app creation using the integrated UI validation, which runs Playwright-based UI checks on Cloud Runner and surfaces failures with diagnostic context directly in the Build Agent panel.
- Semantic search for instance artifact discovery
- Use semantic search in Build Agent to locate relevant instance artifacts, including tables, scripts, and business rules during build and edit tasks. Find files, applications, and knowledge on your instance based on meaning
instead of exact keywords.
- Additional model support
- Choose the provider and model that fits your organizational needs in
Build Agent,
which now supports
Anthropic Claude on AWS
Sonnet 4.6 and Azure OpenAI
GPT 5.4.
- Expanded metadata
support
- Work with more metadata types in Build Agent, which now supports
flows, Service Catalog configurations,
inbound
email
actions,
dictionary
overrides,
choice lists, condition builder query conditions, and
enhanced Service Portal capabilities.
- Contextual launch for Build Agent
- Build Agent pulls context from ServiceNow Studio tabs and component preview screens
which helps
reduce the need to manually search for and specify context within the Build Agent chat panel.
- Australia Patch 1
- ServiceNow product tiers
- The ServiceNow AI Platform now brings you a new AI experience with three licensing tiers available:
- Foundation: AI basics to deliver insights
- Advanced: AI to boost productivity across relevant use cases
- Prime: Act autonomously with all AI assets, and create your own
Depending on your license, you will have access to certain application features, generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents.
- Additional metadata
support
- Work with more metadata types inBuild Agent, which now supports
email.
- Australia
Early
Availability
- Build Agent in ServiceNow Studio
- Access Build Agent in ServiceNow Studio to build apps conversationally in a consolidated development environment.
- Improved LLM support
- Use
AWS Claude
Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.5 in Build Agent
for contextual conversations.
- New metadata
support
- Work with more metadata types, as Build Agent now supports the following:
- Email integration
- List controls
- Service Catalog items
- UI components
- UI policies
- UI views
- Workspaces
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Changes
Between your current release family and Australia, some changes were made to existing Build Agent features.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
- Australia Patch 1
- Build Agent version parity for PDIs
- Personal Development Instances (PDIs) are now updated
to match the latest Build Agent version, delivering a consistent experience across both personal and production-track instances. Developers testing and building on PDIs have access to the same capabilities available in
production environments.
- Updated interaction limits
- To provide developers more room to iterate, the following Build Agent limits have been increased:
- Build Agent
(Trial): 100 prompts per instance per
30-day cycle
- PDIs:
25 prompts per instance per cycle
Note: Limits are per-instance, not
per-user. Only submitted
prompts, which doesn't
include plan approvals,
contribute to the
limit.
- Australia
Early
Availability
- Support for global scope
- Build apps and metadata in the global scope.
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Removed
Between your current release family and Australia, some Build Agent features or functionality were removed.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Deprecations
Between your current release family and Australia, some Build Agent features or functionality were deprecated.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Activation information
Review information on how to activate Build Agent.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
Build Agent is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is active by default.
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Additional requirements
If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Build Agent we have noted them here.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Browser requirements
If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Build Agent we have noted them here.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Accessibility information
Review details on accessibility information for Build Agent, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Localization information
If there are specific localization considerations for Build Agent we have noted them here.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Highlight information
If there are specific highlight considerations for Build Agent we have noted them here.
| Release |
Release notes |
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
- Use Build Agent in ServiceNow Studio.
- Extended Model Context Protocol (MCP) support.
- Support for the global scope for apps and metadata.
- Upgraded support for additional models.
- Extended metadata support.
See Build Agent for more information.
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