[Global] Workday announces new capabilities for building and verifying agentic AI

Workday Inc. has announced new capabilities which it says will give developers new ways to build on top of its platform using their own tools, SiliconANGLE reports.

At its annual developer conference, DevCon 2026, Workday announced a new Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools to take developers from simple requests directly to working apps or agents within minutes. 

The new Agent Passport reportedly provides independent, third-party verification for agents, showing that they’re safe to deploy.

Speaking to SiliconANGLE, Jay Wieczorkowski - vice president and general manager of developer platform - said, “Agentic AI is not incremental change for developers; it’s permanently rewriting the playbook.” 

These updates are the largest update to date to Workday Build, the company’s developer platform, since the company baked low-code and no-code development tools into its tooling. 

Mr Wieczorkowski stated that modern-day developers do more than just write code; they must maintain enterprise truth anchored in the artificial intelligence agents that they’re building.

Workday reportedly offers a way enterprise companies can keep their “secret sauce” locked up while also provisioning it safely to their developers, unlike pure coding agent vendors. 

“As you start getting deeper and deeper into the core of the enterprise, and you’re working on areas like payroll and benefits and the ledger, there’s zero room for error,” Mr Wieczorkowski said.

This is traditionally handled by putting agent development as close to enterprise tooling as possible. According to Workday, its new tools unlock this for developers by allowing them to bring it into any independent editor, tool or agentic coding agents. 

Developer Agent pulls from a large library of more than 50 reusable agent skills based on the AgentSkills standard, providing a framework for developers to quickly build in enterprise knowledge.

The new Agent-Ready Tools are a set of connectors that expose agents via Model Context Protocol, Agent to Agent and other open-source protocols, allowing developers to hook them into third-party systems. When an external system uses these new tools, its actions inherit the data governance, security frameworks and business processes managed by Workday.

Dean Arnold - Vice President of AI Platform - said, “We want to give the customers the option to be able to use our tools in lots of different platforms, and not just in Workday.” 

Source: SiliconANGLE

(Quotes via original reporting)

Workday Inc. has announced new capabilities which it says will give developers new ways to build on top of its platform using their own tools, SiliconANGLE reports.

At its annual developer conference, DevCon 2026, Workday announced a new Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools to take developers from simple requests directly to working apps or agents within minutes. 

The new Agent Passport reportedly provides independent, third-party verification for agents, showing that they’re safe to deploy.

Speaking to SiliconANGLE, Jay Wieczorkowski - vice president and general manager of developer platform - said, “Agentic AI is not incremental change for developers; it’s permanently rewriting the playbook.” 

These updates are the largest update to date to Workday Build, the company’s developer platform, since the company baked low-code and no-code development tools into its tooling. 

Mr Wieczorkowski stated that modern-day developers do more than just write code; they must maintain enterprise truth anchored in the artificial intelligence agents that they’re building.

Workday reportedly offers a way enterprise companies can keep their “secret sauce” locked up while also provisioning it safely to their developers, unlike pure coding agent vendors. 

“As you start getting deeper and deeper into the core of the enterprise, and you’re working on areas like payroll and benefits and the ledger, there’s zero room for error,” Mr Wieczorkowski said.

This is traditionally handled by putting agent development as close to enterprise tooling as possible. According to Workday, its new tools unlock this for developers by allowing them to bring it into any independent editor, tool or agentic coding agents. 

Developer Agent pulls from a large library of more than 50 reusable agent skills based on the AgentSkills standard, providing a framework for developers to quickly build in enterprise knowledge.

The new Agent-Ready Tools are a set of connectors that expose agents via Model Context Protocol, Agent to Agent and other open-source protocols, allowing developers to hook them into third-party systems. When an external system uses these new tools, its actions inherit the data governance, security frameworks and business processes managed by Workday.

Dean Arnold - Vice President of AI Platform - said, “We want to give the customers the option to be able to use our tools in lots of different platforms, and not just in Workday.” 

Source: SiliconANGLE

(Quotes via original reporting)