---
title: Autonomous Engineer
description: Autonomous Engineer is an agentic worker that augments product development capacity across the software development lifecycle \(SDLC\). It accepts requirements, generates a plan with structured work items, and builds all work items in parallel using background agents.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/application-development/autonomous-engineer.html
release: australia
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-08"
reading_time_minutes: 1
keywords: [Autonomous Engineer, Build Agent, implementation plan, agentic development, ServiceNow Studio, agent packs, work items, parallel execution]
audience: programmer
breadcrumb: [Agentic development on the ServiceNow AI Platform, Building applications]
---

# Autonomous Engineer

Autonomous Engineer is an agentic worker that augments product development capacity across the software development lifecycle \(SDLC\). It accepts requirements, generates a plan with structured work items, and builds all work items in parallel using background agents.

Autonomous Engineer reduces time to value by taking your specifications as input and driving the full implementation lifecycle end-to-end. It helps to ensure quality by applying ServiceNow AI Platform best practices during planning and implementation, and automatically generating and running Automated Test Framework \(ATF\) tests for each work item.

Autonomous Engineer is available in ServiceNow Studio and supports custom applications as well as agent pack implementations.

## Get started

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[Explore\[Omitted image "bus-explore.svg"\] Alt text:Learn how Autonomous Engineer works and when to use it.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/exploring-autonomous-engineer.md)

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[Configure\[Omitted image "bus-sdlc.svg"\] Alt text:Set up Autonomous Engineer on your instance.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/configure-autonomous-engineer.md)

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[Use\[Omitted image "bus-learn.svg"\] Alt text:Run Autonomous Engineer to build applications from requirements.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/ae-using-autonomous-engineer.md)

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[Reference\[Omitted image "bus-learn.svg"\] Alt text:Reference information for Autonomous Engineer, including work item states and agent packs.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/autonomous-engineer-reference-landing.md)

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</table>## Helpful resources

The following resources provide additional information:

-   **Build Agent docs**

    [Build Agent](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/build-agent.md)

-   **Agentic development overview**

    [Agentic development on the ServiceNow AI Platform](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/vibe-coding-landing.md)

-   **Support**

    [Contact Customer Service and Support](https://support.servicenow.com/now)