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Promotion agents

Agents that help managers and HR promote one worker at a time. The Promotion Advisor (25D) checks eligibility against the promotion rules you upload, works out the next job, writes the assignment notes and, for simple promotions, submits them. From 26B it also summarises feedback into the notes and can update salary by an amount or a percentage. The Promotion Assistant (26C) is a workflow agent that can review all of a manager's direct reports and produce a consolidated eligibility report, including peer feedback.
Human ResourcesAI agent (Promotion Advisor) and workflow agent (Promotion Assistant, from 26C)Good first agent: NoHigherChanges dataRelease 25D

Where it helps

Before the promotion cycle, a manager asks which direct reports are eligible, reviews the reasons, and submits one promotion with a salary increase for approval.

My take

MY PRACTITIONER VIEW

Useful for consistency, because every promotion gets the same checks and a written rationale. But this is a decision about someone's career and pay, so the rules you upload matter as much as the AI.

Things you can ask

Which of my direct reports are eligible for promotion this cycle?
Evaluate all my direct reports for promotion eligibility and generate a consolidated report with rationale.
Why is this employee eligible or not eligible for promotion based on tenure, performance rating, and promotion policy?

Examples based on Oracle's notes. What works depends on your setup.

What it won't do

  • It handles one worker and one assignment at a time, not mass promotions.
  • Oracle says the eligibility check is advisory: managers can still promote someone who doesn't meet it and record why in the assignment notes (25D).
  • Promotions it submits follow your normal approval workflow (25D, 26C).
  • It won't submit a second promotion if one is already pending for that worker.
  • For more complex salary changes, Oracle says to use the full Promotion process (26B).

Good first agent?

No. It supports decisions about people's careers and pay.

Risk level: Higher. It supports promotions, including salary, which are decisions about a person.

Before you switch it on

  1. Are your promotion rules written down clearly enough to upload?
  2. Who checks the eligibility reasons before anyone relies on them?
  3. Will employees know AI helped assess their eligibility?

Next steps

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

For Oracle Fusion Applications, non-production (test) quarterly updates follow the weekend after the first Friday of the update month; production follows the weekend after the third Friday. Run these checks after the test update and before production, and verify your tenant's exact dates in Oracle update notifications.

  • Ask about a test worker who doesn't meet the rules and check the reason given.
  • Submit a test promotion and check it goes through your normal approvals.
  • Try a second promotion for the same worker and check it's stopped.

Watch out

The 26B salary update only takes a new amount or a percentage. | If Business Title is left blank, the agent fills it in from the job name (25D).

How it's changed

25D Promotion Advisor; 26B feedback summaries and salary updates; 26C Promotion Assistant workflow agent with team-wide eligibility reports.

  1. 26C
    AI Agent Enhancements for Promotion ProcessesOracle's note ↗
  2. 26B
    Enhanced Promotion Advisor Agent Insights and Salary SupportOracle's note ↗
  3. 25D
    Promote Workers with AI AssistanceOracle's note ↗

Related agents

Change Salary Assistant (Line Manager)

Helps line managers check an employee's current salary and prepare a salary change in a conversation. It checks the manager's access and that no other salary change is already pending, shows the proposed salary and calculations for review, and sends the change into your normal approval workflow. From 26D it also covers indirect reports, more assignment and salary types, answers from your salary policy documents, and the next salary review date.

Assignment Change Assistant

Helps managers and HR specialists look up and change one worker's assignment in a conversation. They can ask for current employment and assignment details first, then change the department, job, position, business title, location and office details, working at home, working as a manager, and notes, with the action, reason and effective date. It submits supported changes through your normal approvals, and links to the right page for anything it can't do, such as a promotion or global transfer. From 26D it also handles Change Working Hours and Change Manager, updates salary by a new amount or a percentage, makes several changes in one request, and suggests the business title from the job or position.

Succession Planning Advisor

Helps managers look after their team's succession plans in a conversation: finding critical employees and successors, viewing plans for a person, job or position, and tracking candidates' readiness. From 26B it can also create plans and add, rank and update candidates, including creating an external candidate from a CV. From 26C, the Succession Planning Guide workflow agent brings these tasks together for managers and HR specialists, including finding plans with no Ready Now candidates and the effect of someone leaving.

Last reviewed November 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.