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Workday introduces new capabilities for building and verifying AI agents

Workday just shipped Developer Agent tools. Enterprise devs can now build working apps in minutes, not weeks.

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Why it matters

Workday is lowering the barrier to AI app development on its platform by introducing agent-building capabilities that compress development cycles. This matters to enterprise software leaders evaluating whether to build AI workflows in-house or adopt pre-built tooling.

The key facts

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  1. Workday announced Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools at DevCon 2026

  2. New capabilities enable developers to go from requests to working apps/agents in minutes

  3. Tools allow developers to use their own tools on the Workday platform

  4. Announcement made at company's annual developer conference

  5. New tools enable developers to build apps or agents within minutes

  6. Focus on reducing friction from simple requests to working deployments

  7. Platform-native agent building (not reliant on external model releases)

  8. Enterprise developer audience (Workday's core customer base)

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Publisher excerpt: Workday Inc. today announced new capabilities aimed at providing developers new ways to build on top of its platform using their own tools. During DevCon 2026, the company’s annual developer conference, Workday unveiled a new Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools to take developers from simple…
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