Agent & App Builder

Workday Extend enables you to turn ideas into enterprise-grade AI solutions, tailored for your business. It unlocks the Workday Build developer platform, giving you a complete end-to-end toolkit that enables you to build, run, and surface custom agents, apps, and orchestrations at scale across your enterprise. Build at the speed of thought using plain language in your agentic tool of choice such as Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code.

Developer Agent is Workday’s agentic-first, developer experience—the next evolution of how teams build agents, apps, orchestrations and more. It empowers developers to build across the Developer Platform using plain language to:


• Build apps and agents with their preferred agentic coding tools
• Discover Workday APIs and Agent-Ready Tools and quickly add them into any stack
• Seamlessly integrate into your agentic DevOps workflow
• Instantly pull relevant docs, tutorials, and API references to learn in the flow of work


Build anywhere, whether it’s Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code, Developer Agent plugs into your agentic tool of choice with MCP. You don’t need to be a Workday expert to build.

Yes—Workday Extend is now agent-ready and Extend AI is the primary product for building and running agents on Workday. It unlocks the Developer Platform, giving you a complete end-to-end toolkit that enables you to build, run, and surface custom agents, apps, and orchestrations at scale across your enterprise. You can build in your agentic tool of choice as well as within the Agent & App Builder.

Agent-Ready Tools are purpose-built, context-rich tools that expose Workday’s data, rules, and processes in a format AI agents can act on reliably, rather than just query. Because they use flat, self-describing schemas and are secured through Agent System Users with delegation, agents reason more accurately and hallucinate less than they would using generic application APIs. Published over MCP, Workday Agents, customer-built agents and third-party agents rely on them to get work done in Workday.

Custom Agent Actions let any agent trigger pre-built, configured actions in Workday and external systems, turning an agent’s intent into a reliable, repeatable actions. Every workflow runs through Workday Orchestrate combined with thousands of pre-built connectors, so agents can take the right action across the enterprise stack lawfully and with guardrails. This gives organizations a way to reach 1,000+ systems in their tech stack without building a single point-to-point integration.

Workday Extend applies the same security model that governs Workday’s core HR and finance data—delegated security, business process controls, audit trails, human-in-the-loop approvals for sensitive people and money actions—to every custom app and agent, so nothing runs outside your existing guardrails. With registration and traceability through Workday’s agent governance foundation, IT teams can maintain visibility and control as agents move from experimentation to production.

Customers use Workday Extend to replace manual processes with governed custom apps and see measurable results. Nasdaq retired legacy software and created seven apps in under nine months . Cushman & Wakefield built an app processing $1.5 billion in labor billings and 100,000+ invoices annually, saving $1 million a year and cutting journal-line-entry updates from 45 minutes to four. Tracelink deployed 10 global apps in three years with two developers. See more use cases.