script-include-patterns

A pattern guide for ServiceNow Script Includes, which are reusable server-side JavaScript libraries. It covers regular utilities, code callable from browser scripts through GlideAjax, inheritance, and scoped applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing ServiceNow classes, client-callable APIs, inherited utilities, or examples that read and update records such as incidents.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose the right Script Include structure and connect browser-side code to ServiceNow server logic correctly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/script-include-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add serac-labs/serac --skill script-include-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/serac-labs/serac

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,385 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 $0.00040 $0.02385
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01192
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00238

Measured 2d ago against content hash e918d3707ae2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

script-include-patterns 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 2d 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/script-include-patterns/SKILL.md · 360 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 360 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Script Include Patterns for ServiceNow

Script Includes are reusable server-side JavaScript libraries that can be called from any server-side script.

Script Include Types

Type Use Case Client Callable
Standard Server-side utilities No
Client Callable GlideAjax from client Yes
On-Demand Lazy loading No
AbstractAjaxProcessor Client-server communication Yes

Standard Script Include (ES5)

// Basic utility class
var IncidentUtils = Class.create()
IncidentUtils.prototype = {
  initialize: function () {
    this.LOG_PREFIX = "[IncidentUtils] "
  },

  /**
   * Get incident by number
   * @param {string} number - Incident number (INC0010001)
   * @returns {GlideRecord|null} - Incident record or null
   */
  getByNumber: function (number) {
    var gr = new GlideRecord("incident")
    gr.addQuery("number", number)
    gr.query()
    if (gr.next()) {
      return gr
    }
    return null
  },

  /**
   * Calculate priority based on impact and urgency
   * @param {number} impact - Impact value (1-3)
   * @param {number} urgency - Urgency value (1-3)
   * @returns {number} - Calculated priority (1-5)
   */
  calculatePriority: function (impact, urgency) {
    var matrix = {
      "1-1": 1,
      "1-2": 2,
      "1-3": 3,
      "2-1": 2,
      "2-2": 3,
      "2-3": 4,
      "3-1": 3,
      "3-2": 4,
      "3-3": 5,
    }
    var key = impact + "-" + urgency
    return matrix[key] || 4
  },

  /**
   * Get open incidents for user
   * @param {string} userSysId - User sys_id
   * @returns {Array} - Array of incident objects
   */
  getOpenIncidentsForUser: function (userSysId) {
    var incidents = []
    var gr = new GlideRecord("incident")
    gr.addQuery("caller_id", userSysId)
    gr.addQuery("active", true)
    gr.orderByDesc("opened_at")
    gr.query()

    while (gr.next()) {
      incidents.push({
        sys_id: gr.getUniqueValue(),
        number: gr.getValue("number"),
        short_description: gr.getValue("short_description"),
        state: gr.state.getDisplayValue(),
        priority: gr.priority.getDisplayValue(),
      })
    }
    return incidents
  },

  type: "IncidentUtils",
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 360 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. 2d ago First seen · 360 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A e918d3707ae2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

script-include-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository serac-labs/serac (78 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,385 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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