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title: Playbooks in Autonomous Engineer
description: Use Autonomous Engineer to author and manage Playbook Designer artifacts through a conversation. You can generate playbook structures, configure activities, set runtime permissions, and define launcher configurations without manually navigating the Playbook Designer UI.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/application-development/ae-playbooks.html
release: australia
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-18"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Overview, Autonomous Engineer, Agentic development on the ServiceNow AI Platform, Building applications]
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# Playbooks in Autonomous Engineer

Use Autonomous Engineer to author and manage Playbook Designer artifacts through a conversation. You can generate playbook structures, configure activities, set runtime permissions, and define launcher configurations without manually navigating the Playbook Designer UI.

For details on using playbooks in Autonomous Engineer, see [Playbook authoring with Build Agent and Autonomous Engineer](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/ba-playbooks.md).

**Parent Topic:**[Exploring Autonomous Engineer](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/exploring-autonomous-engineer.md)