With the Build Agent (Trial) app, your instance will receive 100 free user interactions for 30 days at no additional charge, enabling you to explore the Build Agent features at no cost. If you exceed the limit of free interactions, you can either wait for your free interactions to reset after 30 days or install the paid Build Agent app on your instance to continue using its services.
Build Agent is an autonomous developer AI agent inside ServiceNow Studio and the ServiceNow IDE. It benefits customers by significantly accelerating application development on the ServiceNow platform. Build Agent automates many of the repetitive and time-consuming tasks that developers currently perform manually. This leads to:
1. Increased developer productivity.
2. Reduced development backlogs.
3. Faster time-to-market for new business applications.
4. A potential reduction in overall development costs.
Build Agent can help developers:
1. Create new scoped applications from scratch.
2. Edit existing scoped applications and metadata.
3. Debug code and automatically fix build errors.
4. Create and edit automated tests (ATF).
5. Answer questions about ServiceNow development.
6. Write documentation for applications and code.
- New
- A new web search tool capability enabled Build Agent to find answers from the public internet when its internal knowledge sources don't have them. This tool needs to be toggled on from the settings screen of the Build Agent chat panel.
- Consolidated update sets enable you to track changes generated by Build Agent[ and manual edits in consolidated update sets. All changes to your application are captured in the same scope, making it easier to review what was modified and merge updates to other environments.
- Work with more metadata types in Build Agent, which now supports connection and credential alias, data lookup, rest message/HTTP method, and user criteria.
- Changed
- Developers can now see the complete history of changes in Build Agent conversations, including both automatic Build Agent updates and manual edits made in Studio. The system automatically creates separate "manual-edit" update sets for manual changes between Build Agent installs, making it easy to distinguish which changes were automated versus hand-crafted. Restore to any point in your workflow, including manual edits between Build Agent prompts, and the system intelligently manages update set reconciliation to keep your change history clean and traceable.
- Build Agent handles checkpoints and update sets differently: checkpoint 0 no longer creates an update set, checkpoint 1 is the base update set for all subsequent changes, and update sets use human-readable naming.
- An updated semantic metadata search tool improves performance replaces the previous semantic search tool.
ServiceNow IDE or ServiceNow Studio