What is servicenow-sdk-lifecycle?

A step-by-step guide for building ServiceNow applications as code with the Now SDK command-line tool. ServiceNow is a platform for business workflows and applications; the guide covers the path from project setup through testing and deployment.

Use it to create or convert scoped applications, authenticate to instances, build and deploy projects, manage source control, and run ATF automated tests.

It keeps the many stages of ServiceNow development in the correct order and clarifies when to use the command line or remote tools.

servicenow-sdk-lifecycle — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by Knuckles

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add Knuckles-Team/servicenow-api --skill servicenow-sdk-lifecycle

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Knuckles-Team/servicenow-api

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 191 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,946 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00191	$0.01946
Opus 5	$0.00096	$0.00973
Sonnet 5	$0.00038	$0.00389
Haiku 4.5	$0.00019	$0.00195

Measured 10d ago against content hash be6acbb9dd8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

servicenow-sdk-lifecycle scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

servicenow_api/skills/servicenow-sdk-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ServiceNow SDK Lifecycle (the procedural spine)

The end-to-end procedure for taking a ServiceNow scoped application from an empty folder to an installed, tested app — driven by the now-sdk command-line interface (published as @servicenow/sdk) for local authoring/build/deploy, and handed off to the servicenow-api MCP server for remote-instance orchestration (CI/CD pipelines, update sets, plugins, source-control import).

Sibling skills own the content of each artifact; this skill owns the ordering.

When to use

Standing up a new Fluent project or converting an existing scoped app to code.
Authenticating the CLI to an instance and managing multiple instance profiles.
The build → transform → deploy/install loop for a local project.
Versioning, source-control import/apply, and running ATF suites as part of CI/CD.

When NOT to use

Authoring flows/subflows/actions → servicenow-workflow-studio.
Scoped-app anatomy / App Engine Studio reconciliation → servicenow-app-engine.
Reading the bundled Fluent samples → servicenow-sdk-docs.
Ad-hoc record CRUD / queries against a live instance → servicenow-table-api.

Prerequisites

Node v20+ and pnpm v9+ (matches the servicenow-sdk-docs samples).
The CLI: npx @servicenow/sdk <command>, or install it and call now-sdk <command>.
For MCP-driven steps: connect via the mcp-client skill to the servicenow-api server. Env: SERVICENOW_INSTANCE, SERVICENOW_USERNAME, SERVICENOW_PASSWORD (+ optional OAuth SERVICENOW_CLIENT_ID/SERVICENOW_CLIENT_SECRET, SERVICENOW_SSL_VERIFY). Full env/tag matrix (do not duplicate): agent-tools/mcp-client/references/servicenow-api.md. MCP_TOOL_MODE (condensed|verbose|both) selects the 30 condensed tools (used below) vs. the 119 one-to-one verbose tools.

The lifecycle (ordered)

Init the project — scaffold or convert from an installed app. → references/project-init.md
Auth the CLI to the target instance and pick a profile. → references/auth-and-profiles.md
Author Fluent metadata under src/fluent/ (tables, business rules, ACLs, flows, …). The what lives in the sibling skills and servicenow-sdk-docs; this skill only sequences it.
Dependencies — pull schema/type definitions for platform tables you reference. → references/dependencies.md
Build / transform — compile Fluent to a deployable package; transform existing XML metadata into Fluent. → references/build-transform.md
Deploy / install — push the built package to the instance. → references/deploy-and-install.md
Source-control — commit; import a repo or apply remote changes on the instance. → references/source-control.md
ATF — run Automated Test Framework suites to validate. → references/atf-run.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

10d ago First seen · 126 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A be6acbb9dd8d

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servicenow-sdk-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository Knuckles-Team/servicenow-api (19 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 1,946 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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