AI capabilities in Playbooks

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Explore the AI-powered capabilities in Playbook, from generating and recommending playbooks to enabling autonomous, agentic execution.

The generative AI and agentic AI capabilities help you build, discover, and run playbooks more efficiently.

Capability	Description	Documentation
Playbook generation	Generate a complete playbook automatically using a natural language prompt. Now Assist creates the playbook structure, stages, and activities based on text prompt or image.	Playbook generation from text prompt or image
Playbook recommendation	Get AI-generated recommendations for placeholder activities. The system generates recommendations based on an activity’s name and description.	Playbook recommendations for placeholder activity
Playbook summarization	Use AI-generated overviews of a playbook's stages, activities, triggers, and inputs to understand its purpose and flow without going into the details of what is being done at activity and stage level.	Playbook summarization
Agentic Playbooks	Enable AI agents to autonomously execute playbook actions and make decisions at runtime, reducing manual intervention for complex, multi-step processes.	Agentic Playbooks

Parent Topic:Exploring Playbook

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title: AI capabilities in Playbooks
description: Explore the AI-powered capabilities in Playbook, from generating and recommending playbooks to enabling autonomous, agentic execution.
locale: en-US
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release: brazil
product: Workflow Studio
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last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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# AI capabilities in Playbooks

Explore the AI-powered capabilities in Playbook, from generating and recommending playbooks to enabling autonomous, agentic execution.

The generative AI and agentic AI capabilities help you build, discover, and run playbooks more efficiently.

|Capability|Description|Documentation|
|----------|-----------|-------------|
|Playbook generation|Generate a complete playbook automatically using a natural language prompt. Now Assist creates the playbook structure, stages, and activities based on text prompt or image.|[Playbook generation from text prompt or image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/build-workflows/workflow-studio/playbook-assist.md)|
|Playbook recommendation|Get AI-generated recommendations for placeholder activities. The system generates recommendations based on an activity’s name and description.|[Playbook recommendations for placeholder activity](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/build-workflows/workflow-studio/playbook-recommendations.md)|
|Playbook summarization|Use AI-generated overviews of a playbook's stages, activities, triggers, and inputs to understand its purpose and flow without going into the details of what is being done at activity and stage level.|[Playbook summarization](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/build-workflows/workflow-studio/playbook-summarization.md)|
|Agentic Playbooks|Enable AI agents to autonomously execute playbook actions and make decisions at runtime, reducing manual intervention for complex, multi-step processes.|[Agentic Playbooks](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/build-workflows/workflow-studio/agentic-playbooks-landing.md)|

**Parent Topic:**[Exploring Playbook](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/build-workflows/workflow-studio/process-automation-designer.md)