Configure a skill in Now Assist for Public Sector Digital Services (PSDS)

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 2 minutes to read

    • Configure the triggers, settings, and display locations for Now Assist skills to enable GenAI capabilities across the Public Sector Digital Services agent platform.

    About this task

    The following skills can be enabled and customized in Now Assist for PSDS:
    • AI Agents
    • Chat Summarization
    • Case Summarization
    The Now Assist Admin console contains everything that you need to install the plugins and configure the generative AI skills. For additional information, see Now Assist Admin console

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Now Assist Admin > Features to access the Features tab of the Now Assist Admin console.
      Menu dropdown showing Now Assist Admin
    2. Activate and configure the skills for the Now Assist for PSDS.
      The following Now Assist for PSDS skills can be customized:
      • Case Summarization
      • Chat Summarization
      These features are grouped under the Customer workflow group. Select PSDS in the dropdown to access the skills for Now Assist for Public Sector Digital Services (PSDS). Each feature has its associated skills.
      Menu dropdown showing PSDS in the list of Now Assist Products
    3. On the feature card that is associated with the skill that you would like to activate, select View details.

      For the Government case summarization skill, select View details under the Government case feature card.

      Feature card showing option to view skill details

    4. In the All available skills section for the desired feature, select Activate skill.
    5. Select the inputs or triggers for the selected skill.
      Figure 1. Example Define trigger screen for the Chat summarization skill
      Example Define triggers screen for the chat skill.
    6. After you configure all inputs or triggers for the selected skill, select Save and continue to go to the next step.
      You can return to a previous step by using the Back button.
    7. Define the availability of the skill.
      Note:
      This step applies to the case summarization and resolution notes generation skill. If you’re configuring the chat summarization skill, you will see the next step as Choose input. You can select the customer-facing portals that you want to use as the source of the input data. The default product portal and portals that are already in use by other products can't be selected.

      You can configure the skill to be always available to users, or you can select conditions that must be met before the skill is available. Selecting Customize skill availability displays a condition builder.

    8. After you configure the skill availability, select Save and continue to go to the next step.
    9. Select where you would like to display the skill.
      • In-product: When selected, the Now Assist skills are displayed on forms and workspaces. For the skills that appear in-product, select the down arrow to identify the roles that can use the skill.
      • Now Assist panel: When selected, Now Assist skills are available in the Now Assist panel. If you don't see this option, you must activate the Now Assist panel. For more information, see Activate Now Assist panel standard chat. For the skills that appear in the Now Assist panel, select the down arrow to identify the roles that can use the skill.
        Note:
        Selecting In-product will allow the case summarization card to show on the process based experience playbook page in the CSM Configurable Workspace. For Government case summarization, select In-product.
    10. After you configure the display for the selected skill, select Save and continue to go to the next step.
    11. Review your choices and select Activate to complete the configuration.
      Modal showing Activate option for the government case summarization skill

    Result

    Your skill is configured.

    What to do next

    You can go back to the Now Assist Features page to configure another skill.