Universal Request Router agentic workflow

concept brazil Updated Sep 10, 2026 2 min read agentic-flow-ur.md
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Helps employees request a department-agnostic ticket for services that are hard to find in the catalog or that need collaboration across departments.

Overview of Universal Request Router agentic workflow

The agents, tools, and triggers for the Universal Request Router agentic workflow come from Now Assist applications. To activate the workflow template, make its triggers active. To change the workflow’s instructions, duplicate it, adjust the settings for your needs, and activate the duplicate instead.

Prerequisites and setup

Verify that the Universal Request AI agent collection Plugin (com.sn_ur_ai_agents) is installed.

Accessing the Universal Request Router agentic workflow

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To access the agentic workflow:

  1. Navigate to All > AI Agent Studio > Overview.
  2. Select Agentic workflows > Universal Request Router agentic workflow.

The first step of the guided setup includes a complete list of included AI agents. Selecting the name of an AI agent opens it in a new browser tab, where you can see the full description, role, agent instructions/prompts, and tools. Tools are displayed in the second step of the AI agent-guided setup, Add tools, and information.

Universal Request Router agentic workflow AI agents

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The following table lists the agents that are used in the Universal Request Router agentic workflow.

Note: In the Define availability screen for the AI agent, make sure that the Status toggle is enabled to activate the AI agent.

Agents used in the Universal Request Router agentic workflow:

AI agent

AI agent role

Universal Request departmental ticket creator

Automates the routing of universal requests to the right departmental ticketing systems. It analyzes department predictions and creates properly configured HR cases or IT incidents. These include all necessary field mappings and reference tracking.

Record field value prediction AI agent

Predict fields of an incoming task/record by gathering incoming task sys_id. It can also provide a summary and justification of the field predictions.

## Triggers

Activate the triggers according to your organization's requirements.

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Executing a test scenario

You can run this workflow on the Testing page of AI Agent Studio with the following utterance in the Task field: Help me resolve <UR case>.

The AI agent decision log displays the AI agents that are working to predict the department for the ticket, and create a primary ticket for the identified department. You can also watch their interactions, decisions, and thought processes as they happen in real time.

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Predict and create a primary ticket in Universal Request page

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Parent Topic:Using agentic flows in Universal Request AI agent collection

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