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Now Assist in Virtual Agent doesn't fire topics. It runs plans.

New article articles in ServiceNow Community · Jun 30, 2026 · article

If you configured Now Assist in Virtual Agent like classic Virtual Agent and the matching feels off, the reason is that it no longer fires one topic per message. It reads the whole request and works across multiple resources to answer it.

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