Standard chat

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  • Updated July 16, 2025
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  • With the ServiceNow Otto panel standard chat, you can get assistance from generative AI experiences to solve customer issues faster. Use this conversational interface to summarize a chat, case, or incident, get help, or generate resolution notes so that you can get the context of this information more quickly.

    Note:
    Next Experience must be enabled to use the ServiceNow Otto panel. For more information, see Considerations for activating Next Experience.

    ServiceNow Otto panel overview

    Agents can use the ServiceNow Otto panel to interact with and get assistance from generative AI. On the ServiceNow Otto panel, you can increase your productivity and efficiency by using the generative AI experience to summarize a chat, case, incident, or generate resolution notes.

    Conversational aspects of the ServiceNow Otto panel, such as skill detection, are powered by Now LLM Service.

    Note:
    ServiceNow Otto skills must be enabled to appear on the ServiceNow Otto panel. For more information, see Generative AI skills.

    Let's get started by selecting the ServiceNow Otto icon to display the ServiceNow Otto panel.ServiceNow Otto panel icon.

    If a number in a square appears, it indicates how many messages you missed when the ServiceNow Otto panel was closed.

    Figure 1. ServiceNow Otto panel
    ServiceNow Otto panel with callouts.

    ServiceNow Otto panel showing active chats, updates, and closed chats.

    The ServiceNow Otto panel includes:
    Item number Description

    1 - Enter modal button

    Expands the chat into a 90% screen-size window.

    2 -

    Positions, or pins, the ServiceNow Otto panel to the screen.

    3 - Display chats button

    Displays the Chats window.

    4 - Option buttons

    Displays the available options.

    5 - Copy message button

    Copies the ServiceNow Otto panel message.

    6 - Reply to ServiceNow Otto... field

    Enter actions.

    Voice Input

    Voice input microphone on ServiceNow Otto panel.

    If Voice Input is activated, select the microphone icon or the keyboard shortcut to use your voice to interact with the ServiceNow Otto panel. After you speak, there’s a pause while the system transcribes the text and then displays it on the screen. See Enable voice input for information on enabling Voice Input. See Next Experience keyboard shortcuts for the ServiceNow Otto menu (Voice Input mode) shortcuts for Microsoft and macOS.

    8 - Active chats

    All active chats display in the Active chats section. in the Active chats section of the ServiceNow Otto. You can create additional chats by selecting the + icon in the heading.

    9 - Updates

    Displays important updates and reminders.

    10 - Closed chats

    Displays all closed chats. If you select one of the closed chats, you can see that chat's history.

    ServiceNow Otto panel is available on Next Experience and ServiceNow Studio. The following screenshots show the ServiceNow Otto panel in a workspace and on Core UI screens under Next Experience.

    Table 1. ServiceNow Otto panel
    Next Experience Core UI
    ServiceNow Otto panel on Next Experience. ServiceNow Otto panel on a Core UI incident form.

    Navigating from the ServiceNow Otto panel

    Navigate from the ServiceNow Otto panel without leaving the current conversation by entering a navigation request in the Ask ServiceNow Otto to... field. If you enter "navigate me to active incidents," ServiceNow Otto displays a button that enables you to view the active incidents.

    Chat summarization

    Quickly learn the details of a chat by reading a chat summarization. The chat summarization gives you enough details about the chat so that your requester doesn't have to repeat the same information to you.

    To generate a chat summarization from the ServiceNow Otto panel, select Chat Summarization or enter summarize chat in the Ask ServiceNow Otto to field.

    Note:
    You can also generate a chat summarization by using the /summarize quick action in Agent Chat.

    Case or incident summarization

    Quickly learn the details of a case or incident by reading a case summarization. The summarization gives you enough details about the interaction so that your requester doesn't have to repeat the same information to you.

    You can generate a case or incident summarization from the ServiceNow Otto panel for ServiceNow Otto for CSM, ServiceNow Otto for HRSD, or ServiceNow Otto for ITSM:
    • For ServiceNow Otto for CSM, select Summarize record or enter summarize a record in the Ask ServiceNow Otto to field.
    • For ServiceNow Otto for HRSD, select Summarize record or enter summarize a record in the Ask ServiceNow Otto to field.
    • For ServiceNow Otto for ITSM, select Summarize incident or enter summarize an incident in the Ask ServiceNow Otto to field.

    Conversation Help

    Get specific and accurate answers to your queries by using the Get Help skill option on the ServiceNow Otto panel. This skill is available to everyone entitled to ServiceNow Otto capabilities.

    For more information about the ServiceNow Otto Conversational Help skill which represents as Get Help on the ServiceNow Otto panel, see Conversational Help.

    Resolution notes generation

    Quickly learn the details of how an interaction was resolved by generating and reading resolution notes.

    To generate resolution notes from the ServiceNow Otto panel, select Generate resolutions notes or enter generate resolutions notes in the Ask ServiceNow Otto to field.

    Streaming responses

    After you enter a question or request on the ServiceNow Otto panel, ServiceNow Otto gathers information from Knowledge Base articles, external content, product documentation, catalog items, and workflows and combines them into a synthesized, comprehensive answer. Instead of waiting for the entire message to render, the synthesized response streams in real time and stops streaming after the entire message has been delivered. An animated sparkle icon () appears while the response is generated and changes to the static sparkle icon after the response has fully loaded.