SDK 4.5.0

[bryce-godfrey]

@servicenow/sdk — Release Notes

Version: 4.5.0
Availability: npm — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@servicenow/sdk

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🚀 Overview

Version 4.5.0 adds new Fluent APIs and fixes some more bugs!

New Fluent APIs

Instance Scan Records

New APIs are available for configuring Instance Scan checks for detecing anomalies on your instance.

• LinterCheck
• ScriptOnlyCheck
• ColumnTypeCheck
• TableCheck

Scheduled Script

The ScheduledScript (sysauto_script) API can be used to execute custom scripst at specified times or on a recurring basis.

ServicePortal

More APIs have been added for creating Service Portal items to round out the existing Fluent APIs that already exist.

• SPPage for creating pages
• SPTheme for creating themes
• SPWidget for creating widgets
• SPMenu for creating menus

Now Assist Skill Kit

Adds a Fluent API NowAssistSkillConfig for creating NowAssist Skill configurations

AI Agent Studio

The addition of Fluent AI Agent Studio Fluent APIs enable the create and manage AI agents and workflows!

• Adds new Fluent APIs AiAgent for creating AI Agent definitions
• Adds new Fluent API AiAgentWorkflow that allows for creating dynamic agentic workflow definitions

New Features

Flows

• All Flows and Subflows installed from the SDK will now be auto published as part of now-sdk install. Use flag -skip-flow-activation to disable this if needed.
• NOTE: This requires version 4.1.1 or later of the ServiceNow IDE installed on your instance.

Changes

• Removed eslint dependency from projects and updated internal reference to v9. After upgrading to 4.5.0 of @servicenow/sdk you can remove the dependency on @servicenow/eslint-plugin-sdk-app-plugin from your projects package.json
• init command no longer prompts for credentials unless converting from the instance
• Fix metadata folder content copy for binary files being copied as utf8
• FieldListColumn accepts either dependent or attributes.table
• Fix EmailNotification not correctly escaping encoded values
• Fix CatalogItem checkbox selection required field mapping missing
• Fix dev server watching HTML and CSS asset files
• Fix unable to create global app with UI customizations
• Flow fixes:
  • setFlowVariable transform issues
  • SubFlow complex object transform issues
  • Trigger createOrUpdate converting to wrong type on transform
  • Flow runAs defaulting to user instead of system
  • Issues with diagnostic errors on setFlowVariables not working

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This discussion was created from the release SDK 4.5.0.

[DanielMadsenDK]

Great to see AI support being added to Fluent! I think it will make it possible to hit the ground running faster with AI implementations on the platform, by making it easier to turn prose requirements / wishes / ideas into actual functional AI capabilities on the platform. We've had this discussion at work before. If we were to host a hackathon AI session with a business unit, our time would be more well spent if we had a tool that could turn ideas or identified use cases into prototype AI capabilities during the workshop itself. While it's fairly easy to make a skill on the platform, it'll just be way faster to have an AI agent build it out using Fluent in the background and support a better flow during the session.

[Dan-Bladorn-Trimedx]

Love the AI focus and documentation pages. I've started using it already. Looks like skill kit is missing structured outputs support still or at least I don't see it in the documentation.

[Dan-Bladorn-Trimedx]

As a follow up to the AI focus - would love the ability to create Knowledge Graphs as well via fluent. And adding the ability for document_id fields to be created/referenced in the knowledge graph vs just reference fields.