General guidelines for agentic development

concept brazil Updated Sep 10, 2026 1 min read vibe-cooding-guidelines.md

General guidelines for agentic development on the ServiceNow AI Platform cover prompt writing, context management, compliance validation, and development environment setup.

Agentic development guidelines

Use clear, focused prompts with as much detail as possible to generate more accurate and relevant output.
If you're using Build Agent, include as much context as possible in your first prompt to enable more robust development. Include roles, data requirements, and success criteria.
When switching between two separate applications in Build Agent, specify the new application context.
Save your successful prompts to repurpose and reuse. For more information, see Example prompts for agentic development.
Save your session to quickly resume working where you stopped.
Use the Build Agent chat panel for iterative development.
Validate compliance using Vault Console to check audit trails and security settings before deployment.
Develop in a sandbox using Developer Sandboxes for isolation and safety, or use a Personal Development Instance (PDI) or a non-production instance to avoid production deployment.

Parent Topic:Exploring agentic development

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# General guidelines for agentic development

General guidelines for agentic development on the ServiceNow AI Platform cover prompt writing, context management, compliance validation, and development environment setup.

## Agentic development guidelines

- Use clear, focused prompts with as much detail as possible to generate more accurate and relevant output.
- If you're using Build Agent, include as much context as possible in your first prompt to enable more robust development. Include roles, data requirements, and success criteria.
- When switching between two separate applications in Build Agent, specify the new application context.
- Save your successful prompts to repurpose and reuse. For more information, see [Example prompts for agentic development](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/application-development/vibe-coding-example-prompts.md).
- Save your session to quickly resume working where you stopped.
- Use the Build Agent chat panel for iterative development.
- Validate compliance using Vault Console to check audit trails and security settings before deployment.
- Develop in a sandbox using Developer Sandboxes for isolation and safety, or use a Personal Development Instance \(PDI\) or a non-production instance to avoid production deployment.

**Parent Topic:**[Exploring agentic development](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/application-development/exploring-vibe-coding.md)