--- title: "Connect ServiceNow to SMSAPI - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Attachment Added\" fires in ServiceNow, your agent runs \"Create Contact\" in SMSAPI." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/servicenow-to-smsapi" --- # Connect ServiceNow to SMSAPI When **New Attachment Added** fires in [ServiceNow](https://apiant.ai/connections/servicenow), your agent runs **Create Contact** in [SMSAPI](https://apiant.ai/connections/smsapi). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. ServiceNow **7** triggers ServiceNow **7** actions SMSAPI **12** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want ServiceNow and SMSAPI to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What ServiceNow can start in SMSAPI - When **New Attachment Added** in ServiceNow then **Create Contact** in SMSAPI - When **New Comment Added** in ServiceNow then **Send Text Message** in SMSAPI Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with ServiceNow and SMSAPI ## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 19 actions - Trigger **New Attachment Added** Triggered when a new attachment is added. - Trigger **New Comment Added** Triggered when a new comment is added to a record. Queries the ServiceNow journal field table for comment entries. - Trigger **New Record** Polls the specified ServiceNow table and fires for each new record, ordered by creation time. Optionally filter with an encoded query. - Trigger **New Work Note Added** Triggered when a new work note is added to a record (e.g. incident) in ServiceNow. - Trigger **New Work Notes (Cisco)** Gets new work notes from incidents in ServiceNow. Queries the configured table (default incident) for rows updated in the last day, returning each record's comments_and_work_notes journal (display value) and sys_id. - Trigger **Two-way sync new and updated incidents (Cisco)** A trigger for two-way syncing new and updated incidents. Can only be used with two-way sync actions. - Trigger **Two-way sync new and updated tables** A trigger for two-way syncing new and updated table records. Polls a ServiceNow table for records ordered by sys_updated_on so new and changed rows are detected. Can only be used with two-way sync actions. - Action **Add Comment to Incident** Adds a customer-visible comment to an incident (by sys_id) via the incident table. - Action **Add File Attachment to Record** Attaches a file to a record via the ServiceNow Attachment API. Provide the table name, record sys_id, file name, content type, and file content. - Action **Add Work Note to Incident** Adds an internal work note to an incident (by sys_id) via the incident table. - Action **Create Record** Creates a new record in the specified ServiceNow table (e.g. incident, task, problem, cmdb_ci). Pass the field values as a JSON object. - Action **Delete Record** Deletes a record by sys_id from the specified ServiceNow table. - Action **List Records** Lists records from the specified ServiceNow table. Optionally filter with an encoded query (sysparm_query), e.g. active=true^priority=1. Returns the result array, paginated. - Action **Update Record** Updates an existing record (by sys_id) in the specified ServiceNow table. Pass changed field values as a JSON object. - Action **Add Blacklisted Number** Adds a phone number to the account's blacklist so no SMS messages are sent to it, optionally until an expiration date. - Action **Add Sender Name** Adds a new sender name to the SMSAPI account. The name starts inactive until SMSAPI verifies it. - Action **Check HLR Lookup** Checks a mobile number against the HLR (Home Location Register). The lookup is accepted immediately; the detailed network result is sent to the HLR callback URL set in the SMSAPI Customer Portal. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact in the SMSAPI contact database. - Action **Delete Blacklisted Number** Removes a single number from the SMSAPI blacklist, so messages can be sent to it again. - Action **Delete Contact** Deletes a contact from the SMSAPI contact database by its ID. - Action **Get Account Balance** Returns the current credit balance (points) and profile details of the connected SMSAPI account. - Action **List Blacklisted Numbers** Lists the phone numbers on the account's blacklist (numbers SMS sending is blocked to), with each entry's id, number, date added and expiration date. - Action **List Sender Names** Lists every sender name on the SMSAPI account with its status (ACTIVE / INACTIVE), whether it is the default, and when it was created. - Action **Send Text Message** Sends an SMS to one or more phone numbers through SMSAPI. - Action **Send Text Message to Group** Sends an SMS to every contact in a group from the SMSAPI contacts database. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing contact in the SMSAPI contacts database. Only the fields you fill in are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **ServiceNow** ServiceNow is a digital workflow and IT service management platform.](https://apiant.ai/connections/servicenow) - [ **SMSAPI** SMSAPI allows you to send text messages automatically. Messages can be fully personalized.](https://apiant.ai/connections/smsapi) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from ServiceNow - [ **ServiceNow to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from SMSAPI to ServiceNow? SMSAPI has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in ServiceNow. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads SMSAPI's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for ServiceNow or SMSAPI? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use ServiceNow and SMSAPI without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.