Example prompts for vibe coding and AI-assisted development

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    Summary of Example prompts for vibe coding and AI-assisted development

    This guide provides ServiceNow customers with practical example prompts to utilize the AI-powered Build Agent for vibe coding and AI-assisted app development. It covers how to create data models, security roles, business rules, user interfaces, and more within the ServiceNow AI Platform. The prompts help customers accelerate app building, extend existing applications, and ensure governance compliance.

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    Key Features

    • Prompt Reference by Goal: Ready-to-use prompt templates for common development tasks such as planning, prototyping apps, brainstorming, extending tables, debugging, documenting, and testing.
    • Starter Prompts: Patterns to safely extend apps, prototype new applications, and modify base system tables with approval plans and automated test generation.
    • Governance Integration: Guidance on embedding security, compliance, audit logging, and testing requirements directly into prompts to produce secure and compliant applications aligned with organizational standards.
    • Prompting Best Practices: Recommendations to draft prompts carefully, track prompt usage, and iteratively refine app functionality through ongoing Build Agent interactions.
    • Example Prompts: Sample Build Agent inputs illustrating how to build apps with custom data models, add role-based security, create business rules, and generate different user interfaces tailored to roles.

    Practical Use and Outcomes

    ServiceNow customers can leverage these example prompts to:

    • Quickly generate comprehensive app plans including tables, fields, roles, and business rules for approval before development.
    • Prototype functional applications with working UIs, flows, and roles to accelerate delivery.
    • Extend existing scoped or base system apps safely with documented state capture, change plans, and automated test creation.
    • Incorporate governance controls such as ACLs, encryption, audit logging, and compliance tracking seamlessly into app builds.
    • Document and summarize app architectures, workflows, and security for stakeholder reviews or knowledge sharing.
    • Iteratively improve and customize apps by prompting Build Agent for UI enhancements, test plans, release notes, and training materials.

    By following the guidance and prompt examples, customers can effectively harness ServiceNow’s AI-assisted development capabilities to build secure, compliant, and well-documented applications faster and with less manual effort.

    Use these example prompts to build data models, implement security, create business rules, and generate user interfaces when building an app with ServiceNow AI Platform vibe coding and AI-assisted development tools.

    To learn more about prompting, see this Community article on The fastest way to learn Build Agent prompting? Ask Build Agent.

    Prompting overview and tips

    For more guidelines on prompting, see General guidelines for Build Agent.

    Get started with prompting

    Additional prompt suggestions

    After you have the foundation of an app created, save your session and keep prompting to refine and extend your app. For example, you can create Automated Test Framework (ATF) tests, generate release notes, and prepare summaries. Some additional prompt ideas include the following examples:
    • Improve generated user interfaces
    • Create ATF tests
    • Create QA and UAT test plans
    • Create a summary of all application functionality
    • Add additional industry-specific use cases
    • Create an announcement
    • Create a user guide
    • Generate release notes
    • Draft change management plans
    • Create training materials for end users
    • Build data migration plans
    • Generate workflow optimization suggestions
    • Prepare executive summary for stakeholders

    Example Build Agent prompt to build an app

    Prompt: Create an application that handles several types of issues related to cash management. Create a custom data model with tables for each type of request. Add fields that are typical for these types of issues to each table. Request tables should extend the Task table. Create custom states for each request type to track issue resolution.

    Figure 1. Build an app prompt outcome
    List of steps completed by Build Agent to build an app

    Example Build Agent prompt to add security to an app

    Prompt: Create a new role and define permissions on the request tables for two types of users:
    1. Requesters who submit issues and can only view their own requests.
    2. Fulfillers who can view and edit all requests.
    Figure 2. Add security to an app prompt outcome
    List of steps completed by Build Agent to add security to an app

    Example Build Agent prompt to add business rules to an app

    Prompt: Create business rules for each request that is triggered by state changes in the workflow. Design the business rules to work together to create business processes aligned to industry best practices for each type of issue.

    Figure 3. Add business rules to an app prompt outcome
    List of steps completed by Build Agent to add business rules to an app

    Example Build Agent prompt to generate different UIs for an app

    Prompt 1: Create an easy to use UI for users with the cash management fulfiller role to view all issues, update and complete them.

    Prompt 2: Create a UI for cash management requesters to submit issues and view or edit issues that they have previously created.

    Figure 4. Generate different UIs for an app prompt outcome
    List of steps completed by Build Agent to generate fulfiller and requester UIs for an app

    Example prompts for governance

    Prompting with governance requirements helps produce secure and compliant applications on the ServiceNow AI Platform. By embedding governance requirements directly into your prompts, you help the AI produce results aligned with your organizational standards for security, compliance, and quality.

    For more information on governance, see Build Agent governance.

    Tip:
    If you have explicit security requirements, include them in your initial prompt.

    Prompt to include security roles and ACLs

    Create an Employee Onboarding app with HR and IT roles, enforce ACLs so only HR can edit personal data.

    Specify data sensitivity

    Generate a table for medical records with encryption enabled and restrict access to compliance officers.

    Request audit and logging

    Build a workflow for expense approvals and include audit logging for all status changes.

    Mention testing requirements

    Create a catalog item for laptop requests and generate ATF tests for submission and approval flows.

    Call out compliance standards

    Develop a leave management app that meets GDPR requirements and includes consent tracking.

    Ask for documentation

    Generate a summary of the app and flow logic for governance review.