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GenAI reply for "AI Agents for email/webform" should be included in the ticket trail end-users see

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  • September 8, 2025
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Please give a quick overview of your product feature request or feedback and note who in your org is affected by this issue [ex. agents, admins, customers, etc.]. (2-3 sentences)

The GenAI autoreply sent to an end-user via “AI Agents for email/webform” is not included in the ticket message trail visible to end-users in their request history in the Help Center portal.  I thought this was a bug and submitted a support request, but the ZD Support agent told me that this is intentional and that I need to submit a suggestion to get this implemented.

What problem do you see this solving? (1-2 sentences) 

With the new “AI Agents for email/webform” capability, the end-user receives an autoreply email to their ticket submission from the AI Agent. This is part of Agent interaction with the end-user, and it should be included in the ticket trail, because if all goes well, it will be the only Agent interaction for that ticket before it's Solved.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool? What happened? How often does this problem occur and how does this impact your business? (3-4 sentences)

We recently converted from “autoreply with articles” to “AI Agents for email/webform”, and are looking to adjust our SOP for 0-touch ticket resolution in appropriate situations. Which means there may be no public comments in the ticket from a live Agent, only the GenAI response from the AI Agent. This GenAI reply is included in the ticket trail in the Agent workspace, and obviously the end-user receives the autoreply. But if the end-user reviews the ticket history in the Help Center portal, the GenAI response isn't there. Which means that the end-user cannot review the complete interaction history. This seems improper.

Are you currently using a workaround to solve this problem? (If yes, please explain) (1-2 sentences)

No workaround exists.

What would be your ideal solution to this problem? How would it work or function? (1-2 sentences)

The GenAI response sent in the autoreply to the end-user's request should be included in the ticket trail the end-user sees in the Help Center portal, just like it appears in the ticket trail in the Agent Workspace.

8 replies

Viachaslau11

What an unpleasant discovery. I 'm adding my voice to this proposal


Emily31
  • September 9, 2025
Hey David and Viachaslau! Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. This has been logged for our PM team to review. For others who may be interested in this feature request, please add your support by upvoting this post and/or adding your use case to the comments below. Thank you again!
 

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  • September 30, 2025

Another issue caused by the AI Agent's Autoreply not being treated as a comment in the ticket trail - it messes up metrics.

 

I've started trying to create reporting that includes AI Agent solutions along with Agent solutions.  For example, I created a calculated metric that maps “Assignee=NULL” on Solved tickets to “AI Agent” and then created a new version of the “Assignee activity” report that uses this calculated metric for rows, so that AI Agent solutions are included along with our Agents.

“First reply time” for AI Agent tickets is blank, most likely because the AI Agent's autoreply isn't counted as an actual reply.

I really think that not treating the autoreply as a public comment is a bug, and should be addressed as such, not as a feature request.


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  • December 8, 2025

The AI Agent reply does not appear in the mobile app. Whatever it is about these replies that causes them to fail to show up in the user portal is probably the same reason they don't show up in the mobile app, but this is a much bigger deal, as an Agent reviewing the ticket in the mobile app has no idea that there was a reply or what the reviewer was told. This is a big problem that I wish our Agents who work out of hours had told me about previously.


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  • December 10, 2025

The AI Agent's autoreply also does not show up in the output from the PDF Export & Download for Tickets Marketplace app, I'm sure due to the same underlying API issue. This really is a bad bug, not an enhancement request, and needs to be fixed.


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  • March 4, 2026

Update on this - having found many places where the AI Agent's reply isn't showing up, including the Help Center end-user portal ticket view, the Zendesk mobile app, the PDF Export app, Zendesk's built-in ticket print function, and the side-tab ticket summary in Views, Zendesk accepted this as a bug, and it has been with the development team for a while now. Still waiting on a fix being implemented.


Thank you for sharing this feedback. We're planning significant updates to our AI Agents product later this year that will address this area, so we're holding off on making changes here until then. We'll keep your input in mind as those updates take shape.
 
At this time we are going to close this post for comment and mark it as “Not Planned”. If you are interested in learning more about this and other features being built please make sure to check out our Community events and Zendesk Updates. Thank you again for your feedback and we appreciate you being a valuable Zendesk Community member.

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  • March 10, 2026

@krzysztof12 so you'll leave this broken for almost a year? This isn't a small issue. As noted, it impacts many areas of the Agent experience, not just the end-user portal experience. This is a bug not an enhancement request.