fluent-development

A guide for building ServiceNow applications as TypeScript files managed in Git. Fluent is ServiceNow's code-based development model, while the now-sdk is its command-line tool for building and installing those applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, build, install, and maintain scoped ServiceNow applications whose definition lives in source control.
Why use it?
It clarifies when to use Fluent for application definitions and when to use regular ServiceNow APIs for records or changes on an existing instance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the skills plugin — 56 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/serac-labs/serac/fluent-development
Any agent
npx skills add serac-labs/serac --skill fluent-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/serac-labs/serac

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00077 $0.02218
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01109
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00222

Measured 3d ago against content hash d7eceee4067d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fluent-development 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 3d 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.

packages/skills/fluent-development/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fluent (ServiceNow SDK) Development

Fluent is ServiceNow's pro-code model: application metadata as declarative TypeScript, with git as the source of truth instead of the instance. You edit .now.ts files locally, compile them (build), and push the compiled package to an instance (install). The CLI behind the tools is now-sdk from @servicenow/sdk (4.x, Node 20+).

Where these tools run: the snow_fluent_* tools are local-only — they execute the ServiceNow SDK (now-sdk) on the developer's machine, so they only exist when the MCP server runs locally over stdio. Over a hosted HTTP transport (e.g. a web chat) they are not available, so do not call them; drive the same flow through git + CI instead: commit the project files, trigger the build/deploy pipeline, and follow the workflow runs.

1. Fluent vs the classic snow_* API tools

Task Use
Build/evolve an app whose definition should live in git Fluent tools (snow_fluent_*)
Data operations (query/create/update records) API tools (snow_query_table, ...)
ITSM/config changes on an existing non-Fluent instance API tools (e.g. snow_create_business_rule)
Metadata types Fluent doesn't cover (see §5) API tools, or keep as XML in metadata/

Fluent changes the definition of an app; the API tools change a live instance directly. Don't mix them for the same artifact: editing a Fluent-managed record via the API gets overwritten on the next install.

2. Project anatomy

now.config.json              # { "scope": "x_acme_myapp", "scopeId": "<sys_app sys_id>", "name": "My App" }
package.json                 # devDeps: @servicenow/sdk, @servicenow/glide
src/fluent/*.now.ts          # the Fluent DSL (entry: index.now.ts)
src/fluent/generated/keys.ts # Now.ID registry -> sys_ids. MUST be committed.
src/server/                  # server-side code referenced from script: properties
metadata/                    # original XML for records not (yet) converted to Fluent
dist/                        # build output (gitignored)

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 124 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A d7eceee4067d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fluent-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository serac-labs/serac (78 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,218 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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