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Workday Launches New Tools for Developers to Build, Connect, and Verify AI Agents For HR, Finance, and IT
Workday DevCon — Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for HR, finance, and IT, today unveiled new agentic capabilities in Workday Build, its platform for developers to build custom AI apps and agents that run on Workday. The new capabilities include Developer Agent, which lets developers build AI apps and agents in plain language from the agentic tools they already use; Agent-Ready Tools, which provide controlled guardrails for agents to access HR and finance data over Model
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Developer Agent Lets Developers Build AI Apps and Agents on Workday Using Natural Language in Agentic Tools Like Claude Code, Cline, Codex, Cursor, and Google Antigravity Agent-Ready Tools Enable Customer-Built and Third-Party Agents to Safely Act on HR and Finance Data from Any Surface Agent Passport Tests, Verifies, and Continuously Monitors Every AI Agent in Workday Against Public Standards Like OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS LAS VEGAS, June 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday DevCon — Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for HR, finance, and IT, today unveiled new agentic capabilities in Workday Build, its platform for developers to build custom AI apps and agents that run on Workday. The new capabilities include Developer Agent, which lets developers build AI apps and agents in plain language from the agentic tools they already use; Agent-Ready Tools, which provide controlled guardrails for agents to access HR and finance data over Model Context Protocol (MCP); and Agent Passport, which gives agents digital stamps from trusted security and compliance vendors to verify they are safe to deploy. Today's agent development tools help developers write code faster, but they lack the big picture ability to ensure data is correct, secure, and in line with company rules. One mistake in payroll, benefits, or the company ledger can mean a missed paycheck, exposed employee data, or a fine from a regulator. Developers need tools that enable them to move quickly without breaking the safeguards they already trust. New capabilities in Workday Build close that gap. "Platforms win when they make the hard thing disappear for the developer," said Gabe Monroy, chief technology officer, Workday. "Anyone can give an agent speed, the hard part is letting it act on the org chart or ledger and trusting every step – and that's the part that Workday Build makes disappear." Developer Agent: From Prompt to Production in Minutes The Developer Agent is designed to fit into how developers already work today. Instead of forcing teams into a new interface, it plugs into the agentic development tools they already use, including Claude Code, Cline, Codex, Cursor, and Google Antigravity. Developers can also leverage Developer Agent to build and deploy custom agents for their company that run on the Workday platform using the open...