Code Agents: Overview

Quality Clouds Code Agent is a Now Assist application that brings AI-powered governance to ServiceNow development teams. It is powered by the Quality Clouds MCP server and rule library, which includes more than 900 deterministic governance rules, giving teams visibility into technical debt and best-practice violations across the instance.

Every check is validated against the governance policies your organisation has defined in Quality Clouds, not generic vendor defaults.

 

Quality Clouds Livecheck Agent #

The Quality Clouds Livecheck Agent checks configuration elements for governance violations and gives developers everything they need to resolve them, directly inside Now Assist.

 

How it works #

Ask the agent to check a Business Rule, Script Include, Flow, or any other configuration element by name or sys_id. The agent submits it to the Quality Clouds governance engine and returns a structured list of detected issues with severity, description, and recommended resolution.

For each issue, the agent retrieves the relevant Quality Clouds best practice details, including remediation guidance and threshold information where applicable, so developers have full context to fix it themselves.

If a flagged issue isn’t a fix candidate, the agent can also submit a write-off request on your behalf, capturing the reason and a description.

 

Example prompts #
  • Trigger a Livecheck for the ‘Incident Auto-Close’ Business Rule
  • Show me the best practices for the issues found on the ‘User Sync’ Script Include
  • Request a write-off for issue X on the ‘Asset Audit SI’ Script Include

 

Why it matters #

Governance that keeps pace with AI-assisted development. Unchecked technical debt slows everyone down, and manual reviews can’t keep pace with AI-assisted development. The Livecheck Agent surfaces violations early, before they break instances or complicate future upgrades.

Your rules, not generic defaults. The agent validates against the governance policies your organisation has defined in Quality Clouds.

Independent governance. Quality Clouds is not built by ServiceNow. It enforces your organisation’s own policy, not the platform vendor’s defaults.

 

Key features #

A growing suite of Now Assist AI agents that govern, fix, and generate ServiceNow configuration, policy-backed, with human approval at every step.

 

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