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Customize a Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM) skill

If you have the admin role, you can customize a Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM) skill so that agents can use the generative AI skills in Service Operations Workspace for ITSM and in Core UI .

Role required: sn_nowassist_admin.nsa_admin

From the Now Assist Admin console, you can select the input tables, related lists, and fields for each input template of the incident summarization skill.

Navigate to Admin > Now Assist Admin . Select the Now Assist Skills tab. In the Technology feature group, select ITSM from the product list. Activate and copy the Now Assist for ITSM feature skill for customization. On the feature card that is associated with the skill that you would like to activate, select View details . In the All available skills section, locate the skill that you would like to activate and select Activate skill . You can choose to make a copy of the skill before activating it. Select the more actions icon for the skill in the Active skills section, and create a copy that you can customize by selecting Make a copy . The copy that you make is listed in the Active skills section. Note: You can only duplicate a summarization skill or the Change risk explanation skill. The fields for the skills that you can’t duplicate have read-only values. Select the copied skill from the Active skills section to open it. A guided setup leads you through the configuration of the general details, input, availability, display, review, and activation of the customized skill.

In the General details step, fill in the fields. For information about the inputs and triggers for each skill, see Skill inputs and triggers for Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM) . Enter a name and description for the skill. Select Save and continue to go to the next step.

Choose input data. Configure the base input table fields and related lists for the different input templates (New, WIP, Resolved, and Closed states) for the skill.

Each skill relies on a base input table and input fields with descriptions to provide context for the Now LLM Service to generate a response.

Select only those related tables that are offered with the base system as part of the input data.

For each input template state (New, WIP, Resolved, and Closed), select +New related table field and configure the base input table fields. Add multiple base input fields if more inputs are needed.

The following table lists the base input table fields and descriptions, including a relevant example. Table 1. Base input fields Field Description Base input field Field in the Incident table whose value this skill uses in its response.

For example, Short description.

Field description Description of the base input field value.

For example, Short description of incident, provides quick info about the issue.

For each input template state (New, WIP, Resolved, and Closed), configure the rule conditions by using the condition builder to filter the data further. The rule conditions determine when the input template is used. By default, the record state determines the input template that the Now LLM Service uses.

You can build the condition out further by selecting +New condition and configuring additional parameters.

The following table lists the input template states.

Table 2. Input template states State Description New State is New. WIP State is Work in Progress. Resolved State is Resolved. Closed State is Closed.

For each input template state (New, WIP, Resolved, and Closed), select +New data source to configure the additional related table and activity stream data, as needed. Adding the input data sources, such as the related tables and activity streams, provide more context to the Now LLM Service in a related list.

You can also add the rule conditions to these additional related table and activity stream data sources.

The following table lists the data sources that you can add to the input data.

Table 3. Additional data sources Data source Description Related Table Fields for a related list: Select related input table Related table field Field description

Configuring the related table fields follows the same format as the base input table fields in the Choose input step.

Activity: Email Email that is attached to the incident in the incident summarization. Activity: Attachment Summarizes attachments of type PNG or JPEG in the Incident summarization skill record using Document Intelligence . Note: Attachment summaries aren't available in child incident records and are only supported in the English language.

Select Save and continue to go to the next step. Optional: Handling custom state choices for the Change request summarization skill. Note: When you add a new state or modify an existing state in a Change request record, you must add the GenAI Summary Card to the Change Overview Container record to display the Summarize button.

To add the GenAI Summary Card: Navigate to All > Change > Workspace Configuration > Overview Container. Make sure the application scope is set to Change Management for Service Operations Workspace .

In the Change Overview Containers list, select the state that you've added or modified. Add the GenAI Summary Card to the Change Overview Cards related list.

For more information, see the KB article on Handling custom state choices for the Change request summarization skill .

Trigger frequency Refreshes the sentiments for all updated incidents. You can set the trigger frequency for the refresh using the Sentiment Analysis Scheduled Job (Incident) scheduled job. See Sentiment Analysis for more information on Now Assist Sentiment Analysis . Cluster incidents If you’re using the Suggested steps generation skill, select Launch clustering in the Record clustering screen to group records based on similar past closed incidents. Note: You should have at least 2000 records for successful clustering. If you get an error that there aren’t enough records to cluster, broaden your filter criteria. You can perform this action by setting the rule conditions to include more records or add more data. For information on troubleshooting steps to resolve issues with the Suggested steps generation skill, see Troubleshoot Suggested steps generation skill set up .

To broaden the criteria:

In the Choose input screen, select Edit conditions . Select Switch scope if you’re unable to edit the conditions. Optional: Change the conditions as needed and select Set . The updates you make are displayed in the GAF Suggested Steps ITSM grouping in Now Assist Skill Config record.

Customize the prompt. Review and test the prompt for each input template configuration. You can edit the prompt by adding new predefined sections and ordering the sections as needed.

For each input template state (New, WIP, Resolved, and Closed), select the prompt sections from the list of available sections to include in the generated summary. To add a section, you must configure the relevant input data in the Choose input data step before you do this step.

The available prompt sections that you can select: Issue Key Actions Taken Resolution Service Level Agreement Affected CIs and Impacted Services Child Incidents Note: When there are too many child incidents and the size of the data goes beyond the LLM token limit, the child incidents section shows the "Too much information and cannot be shown" message.

The following table lists the mandatory prompt headers.

Table 4. Mandatory prompt headers Input template state Mandatory prompt header New Issue Work in progress Issue Key Actions Taken

Resolved Issue Key Actions Taken Resolution

Closed Issue Key Actions Taken Resolution

Select Save to continue to the test response. Select the incident record in the Test response section, and test the prompt response output format by selecting Run Test .

The prompt response is shown. You can make changes to the incident state selections and retest as needed. Select Edit prompt in Now Assist Skill Kit to make necessary changes to the prompt in the Now Assist Skill Kit.

Select Save and continue to go to the next step.

Define availability. Define how the skill will be available to users.

Configure the skill to be always available to users, or select the conditions that must be met before the skill is available. Selecting Customize skill availability displays a condition builder to filter the data further. Select Save and continue to go to the next step.

Select display. Configure where to display the incident summarization. Select either In-product , or Now Assist panel . In-product : When selected, Now Assist skills are displayed in all ITSM products (on forms and in workspaces). For the skills that appear in-product, select the down arrow to identify the roles that can use the skill.

Now Assist panel : When selected, Now Assist skills are available in the Now Assist panel. If you don't see this option, you must activate the Now Assist panel. For more information, see Turn on the Now Assist panel .

For the skills that appear in the Now Assist panel, select the down arrow to identify the roles that can use the skill.

Select Save and continue to go to the next step.

Review and activate. Review your choices and select Activate to complete the skill customization. You can now select Summarize in an incident and generate the custom incident summary.