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This pull request adds a new inbound email action that automatically creates an incident record when a customer replies to a case email containing predefined issue keywords (e.g., outage, crash, error, not working).

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⦁ Scans both email subject and body for trigger keywords.
⦁ Creates an incident record linked to the case as its parent.
⦁ Inherits caller and CI details from the case.
⦁ Updates work notes on both case and incident for traceability.

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Inbound action to create incident from case reply email and link it as a parent with inherited caller & CI.
@ravichandra1998g ravichandra1998g self-assigned this Oct 19, 2025
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looks good to me. Thank you

@ravichandra1998g ravichandra1998g merged commit d4de02f into ServiceNowDevProgram:main Oct 19, 2025
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