Now Assist skills, agents, and agentic workflows on by default

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated June 9, 2026
  • 8 minutes to read
  • Starting with the Zurich Patch 4 release, some Now Assist skills, agents, and agentic workflows are turned on by default.

    Important:
    Some Now Assist skills, agents, and agentic workflows are turned on by default. The default behavior works as follows:
    New customers
    When you install a Now Assist product, designated skills, agents, or agentic workflows are turned on automatically.
    Existing customers who are upgrading (starting with Australia Patch 4)
    There is no change to skills, agents, or agentic workflows that are currently enabled and customized.

    An AI asset is turned on if:

    • The Now Assist plugin is installed, but the asset was never turned on.
    • An admin has never adjusted roles for the skill.
    An AI asset is not turned on if:
    • The asset was previously turned on, and then turned off again.
    • An admin has adjusted roles for the asset.
    Note:
    Some workflow skills support Now Assist functionality. Deactivating these skills may negatively impact some features.
    Note:
    Depending on your license, you will have access to certain application features, generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents. For more information, see ServiceNow product tiers.

    Now Assist AI assets that are on by default

    Release notes

    Product Type Asset name Effective date
    Enterprise Asset Management Agentic workflow Help repair enterprise assets April 9, 2026
    Impact Skill Outcome summarization December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations (APO) Skill Invoice case summarization December 11, 2025
    Purchase order summarization December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Collaborative Work Management (CWM) Skill Acceptance criteria generation December 11, 2025
    Doc generation December 11, 2025
    Task generation December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Skill Configuration item (CI) summarization December 11, 2025
    Manage duplicate CIs December 11, 2025
    Service Graph Connector diagnosis December 11, 2025
    Agentic workflow Search CMDB December 11, 2025
    Now Assist in Contract Management Skill Contracts query enhancer December 11, 2025
    Contracts query classifier April 9, 2026
    Duration to days converter December 11, 2025
    Search contract with contextual input December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Core Business Suite Agent CBS bulk upload agent April 9, 2026
    CBS configuration agent April 9, 2026
    IA orchestration agent April 9, 2026
    Manage groups and roles agent April 9, 2026
    Notification agent April 9, 2026
    Skill Next Best Action April 9, 2026
    Error Resolution April 9, 2026
    Agentic workflow AI agentic workflow for the CBS setup April 9, 2026
    Now Assist for Creator Skill Spoke generation December 11, 2025
    Playbook summarization June 11, 2026
    Now Assist for Customer Service Management (CSM) Agent AI voice April 9, 2026
    Update case AI voice June 11, 2026
    Now Assist for Employee Experience Skill Case summarization for approvals April 9, 2026
    Requested item summarization for approvals April 9, 2026
    Request summarization for approvals April 9, 2026
    Now Assist for Enterprise Architecture (EA) Skill ADR DOC actions December 11, 2025
    ADR DOC summarization December 11, 2025
    Business application insights December 11, 2025
    Create diagram from image June 11, 2026
    Diagram change analysis December 11, 2025
    Refine text December 11, 2025
    Agent Enterprise Architecture query agent
    Operational Sustainability Management (formerly Environmental, Social, and Governance) Skill Extract data from utility invoices December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Hardware Asset Management (HAM) Agent User resolution mapping agent December 11, 2025
    Skill Generate hardware asset insights April 09, 2026
    Agentic workflow Help repair hardware assets December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Health and Safety Skill Incident summarization December 11, 2025
    H&S Action Planner June 11, 2026
    Now Assist for Integrated Risk Management (IRM) Skill Common control objective creation December 11, 2025
    Control objective impact analyzer December 11, 2025
    Issue summarization December 11, 2025
    Recommendation of similar control objectives December 11, 2025
    Regulatory alert summarization December 11, 2025
    Regulatory alert impacted citations December 11, 2025
    Regulatory alert impacted control objectives December 11, 2025
    Regulatory alert impacted controls December 11, 2025
    Regulatory alert impacted policies December 11, 2025
    Risk assessment summarization December 11, 2025
    Risk event summarization December 11, 2025
    Agent Control objective change agent December 11, 2025
    Regulatory change task planning agent December 11, 2025
    Report an issue June 11, 2026
    Risk suggestion AI agent December 11, 2025
    Agentic workflow Get regulatory analysis December 11, 2025
    Generate regulatory action plans December 11, 2025
    Suggest potential risks December 11, 2025
    Optimize issue resolution June 11, 2026
    Now Assist for ITOM Skill Analyze service health March 12, 2026
    Analyze service observability dashboard March 12, 2026
    Alert analysis January 20, 2026
    Alert investigation January 20, 2026
    Agentic workflow Manage alerts autonomously January 20, 2026
    Analyze alert impact June 11, 2026
    Agent ThousandEyes Observability June 11, 2026
    AWS Observability June 11, 2026
    SolarWinds Observability June 11, 2026
    Datadog APM MCP Server June 11, 2026
    Dynatrace MCP Server June 11, 2026
    Kentik analysis June 11, 2026
    New Relic MCP Server June 11, 2026
    Prometheus API June 11, 2026
    Splunk MCP Server June 11, 2026
    Service level objective (SLO) creator March 12, 2026
    Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM) Skill Change request summarization December 11, 2025
    Chat summarization December 11, 2025
    Incident summarization December 11, 2025
    KB generation April 09, 2026
    Resolution notes generation April 09, 2026
    Chat reply recommendation April 09, 2026
    Investigate boot time issues April 09, 2026
    Investigate Zoom call quality issues April 09, 2026
    Agentic workflow Incident assist April 09, 2026
    Now Assist for Legal Service Delivery (LSD) Skill Legal matter summarization December 11, 2025
    Legal request summarization December 11, 2025
    Conversational intake for Conflict of Interest request March 12, 2026
    Agentic workflow Triage legal requests December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Manufacturing Commercial Operations Skill Enhance non conformance description March 12, 2026
    Agent Plan and execute recall campaign phases and sub-phases March 12, 2026
    Operational Technology (OT) Manager Foundation Skill Search for a related record December 11, 2025
    Agentic workflow Import OT device spreadsheet into OT CMDB December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Operational Technology Service Management (OTSM) Skill OT incident summarization March 12, 2026
    OT resolution notes generation March 12, 2026
    Agentic workflow Generate OT KB articles agentic workflow March 12, 2026
    Now Assist for Privacy Management Skill Common control objective creation December 11, 2025
    Control objective impact analyzer December 11, 2025
    Recommendation of similar control objectives December 11, 2025
    Risk assessment summary December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Public Sector Digital Services (PSDS) Agent Investigative Case Management AI agents March 12, 2026
    Now Assist for Purchase Order Management (POM) Agentic workflow Define PO exception mitigation strategy March 12, 2026
    Email Intent to Action March 12, 2026
    Now Assist for Security Incident Response Skill Correlation insights generation December 11, 2025
    Post-incident analysis December 11, 2025
    Resolution notes generation December 11, 2025
    Security incident quality assessment December 11, 2025
    Security incident recommended actions December 11, 2025
    Security incident summarization December 11, 2025
    Agentic workflow Analyze security operations metrics March 12, 2026
    Close security incident March 12, 2026
    Generate SIR shift handover report March 12, 2026
    Resolve security incident March 12, 2026
    Now Assist for Software Asset Management (SAM) Skill Publisher compliance summarization December 11, 2025
    Product compliance summarization December 11, 2025
    Recommended actions December 11, 2025
    SaaS user resolution December 11, 2025
    Error log summarization April 09, 2026
    Error resolution recommendation April 09, 2026
    Contract entitlement data extraction April 09, 2026
    Product match reviewer June 11, 2026
    Software normalization June 11, 2026
    Agentic workflow Reclamation rule creation December 11, 2025
    Removal candidate evaluation December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) Skill EAP doc summarization December 11, 2025
    Feedback summarization December 11, 2025
    Identify similar records December 11, 2025
    Multi feedback summarization December 11, 2025
    Planning item doc summarization December 11, 2025
    Project doc summarization December 11, 2025
    Project insights generation December 11, 2025
    Refine records December 11, 2025
    Target generation December 11, 2025
    Demand summarization March 12, 2026
    Agentic workflow Create stories December 11, 2025
    Monitor project tasks December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Sourcing and Procurement Operations (SPO) Skill Negotiation summarization December 11, 2025
    Procurement case summarization December 11, 2025
    Purchase requisition summarization December 11, 2025
    Sourcing event summarization December 11, 2025
    Sourcing request summarization December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Supplier Lifecycle Operations (SLO) Skill Supplier case summarization December 11, 2025
    Supplier performance summarization March 12, 2026
    Email response March 12, 2026
    Sentiment analysis March 12, 2026
    Now Assist for Sales CRM for Telecommunications Agent Move order voice AI March 12, 2026
    Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) Agentic workflow Squad resource identifier March 12, 2026
    Product release email communication March 12, 2026
    Now Assist for Third-party Risk Management (TPRM) Skill TPRM issue summarization December 11, 2025
    TPRM issue recommendation March 12, 2026
    Now Assist for Threat Intelligence Security Center Skill TISC case summarization June 11, 2026
    Now Assist for Vulnerability Response Skill Generate remediation assistance December 11, 2025
    Now Assist recommendation December 11, 2025
    SEM insights December 11, 2025
    SPC setup connector December 11, 2025
    Suggest vulnerability solutions December 11, 2025
    Vulnerable item deduplication December 11, 2025
    Now Assist for Vault Agentic workflow Access observer configuration April 09, 2026
    Field encryption with Vault module April 09, 2026
    Securing custom apps with Vault agents April 09, 2026
    Summarize access observer logs April 09, 2026
    Now Assist for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) Skill Workplace case summarization March 12, 2026
    Agentic workflow Workplace Concierge April 09, 2026
    Now Assist for Zero Copy Connector Skill ERP data discovery December 11, 2025
    ERP data query December 11, 2025
    Now Assist in Platform Analytics Skill Analytics follow-up generation December 11, 2025
    Analytics hidden insights generation December 11, 2025
    Analytics insights generation December 11, 2025
    Analytics query generation December 11, 2025
    Dashboard and visualization export January 20, 2026
    Now Assist Platform Skill AI agents December 11, 2025
    Conversational Help December 11, 2025
    Custom skills December 11, 2025
    Extract information from documents April 09, 2026
    Multimodal chat April 09, 2026
    Now Assist Multi-Turn Catalog Ordering December 11, 2025
    Now Assist Q&A Genius Results December 11, 2025
    Now Assist Topics December 11, 2025
    Requester approval checklist February 5, 2026
    Subflows and actions December 11, 2025
    Platform agentic workflows Agentic workflow Error Analysis and Remediation workflow June 11, 2026
    Platform AI agents Agent Error Analysis and Remediation agent June 11, 2026