Where it helps
Before planning the summer rota, a manager asks who's already booked leave in August.
My take
MY PRACTITIONER VIEW
A good early win for managers: it makes information they can already see easier to get. Spotting a pattern is a prompt for a conversation, not a conclusion about a person.
Things you can ask
Examples based on Oracle's notes. What works depends on your setup.
What it won't do
- It answers about the manager's own team only, following the reporting hierarchy.
- For leave actions, Oracle's note describes links to the normal pages. Check in your test environment whether anything can be changed from the conversation.
Check for the UK
Oracle's examples are US-led, such as PTO cash-outs and family or disability leave. Test it with your own UK absence plans, including statutory schemes, before managers rely on it.
Good first agent?
Yes. for look-ups. Keep any use of absence patterns about individuals under human review.
Risk level: Take care. Absence records can reveal health information, which is special category data.
Before you switch it on
- Whose data can it see?
- Are the policies it answers from current?
- Who checks its answers?
Setup at a glance
Open Setup at a glance for the setup steps. Select the agent's type label to see what that type means.
Test it after each update
Oracle updates arrive in test on the first Friday of the update month and in production on the third. Run these in between.
- Ask for a team member's balance and check it against their absence record.
- Ask about someone outside your team and check it refuses.
- Ask an eligibility question and check the answer against your plan rules.
Watch out
Absence can reveal health information; be careful with summaries about individuals.
About documents: Anyone who can use this agent can get answers from the documents you add to it. Only add documents that everyone with access may see, and give each one a named owner.
How it's changed
Listed in 25C; 26A added policy document upload across the leave and absence agents.
- 25CLeave and Absence Analyst (My Team)- AI AgentOracle's note ↗
Related agents
Last reviewed October 2026
This is an independent practitioner view, not Oracle documentation. Features, names and availability change each release and depend on your licences and setup; some agentic applications carry extra costs. Always check Oracle's own notes and your environment. Last reviewed October 2026.

