Workday DevCon 2025 – Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the AI platform for managing people , money and agents , today announced a new unified toolset for AI developers that puts the power of Workday Illuminate directly in the hands of customers and partner developers, enabling them to easily customize and connect AI apps and agents on the Workday platform.

The tools, which were announced on Workday DevCon 2025 , the company's annual developer conference, includes:

• Agent Gateway . Developers will be able to connect third-party agents to Workday Agent System of Record (ASOR) to enable seamless agent registration and collaboration between agents. Partners will also be able to register in Workday's new Agent Partner Network and list their agents on Workday Marketplace . This enables customers to select and deploy the right agents for their specific needs, while having a unified and reliable way to manage their human and digital workforce.
  
• AI widgets. Developers will be able to add AI-powered widgets to apps and define custom prompts, giving users personalized AI assistance to quickly create and refine content within HR and finance use cases. For example, AI widgets can help with customer support, automate answers to frequently asked questions, or guide users through tasks.
  
• Expanded AI Gateway APIs. Developers will be able to integrate new Workday AI services directly into apps, allowing users to query reports and understand documents using natural language. For example, a developer can use document intelligence to automatically classify documents and extract key information.

”Today, developers are under immense pressure to quickly deliver sophisticated AI apps while navigating a complex and fragmented AI landscape. They are piecing together disparate tools and services, which hinders their ability to innovate,” says Matthew Grippo, , senior vice president, core software, Workday. ”Workday’s new AI developer toolset removes these barriers by enabling developers to seamlessly integrate powerful AI features in the apps and agents that will define the future of work.”

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Increase productivity with AI Developer Copilot

Workday also expands Developer Copilot, the conversational AI companion that helps developers code faster, across Workday Extend . Developer Copilot has been proven to increase developer productivity by more than 50%, and now Workday developers will be able to:

• Generate code snippets and data queries for apps. Chat with Developer Copilot to generate code or data queries, then easily embed these suggestions into apps.
  
• Find the right APIs. Get contextual recommendations on the best API for a specific use case, along with examples to get you started quickly.
  
• Generate and document orchestrations. Quickly generate functional orchestrations and then prompt to summarize orchestration behavior to create always-up-to-date documentation.

Workday is also introducing a new command-line interface (CLI) tool called the Workday Developer CLI. This will help developers automate development tasks, collaborate more effectively, and integrate Workday into their DevOps workflows.

Workday Illuminate: AI will drive the future of work

Built on the largest and cleanest HR and finance dataset – powered by more than 1 trillion transactions per year – Illuminate understands the business context around the data to transform business operations by empowering people, accelerating economics, and managing an organization’s entire fleet of AI agents. From competencies to performance, goals, cost and ROI metrics, organizational models, and individual identities, Illuminate has deep contextual understanding of how work gets done.

Availability
Agent Gateway will be available to early customers in late 2025. New Workday AI services, AI widgets, new Developer Copilot capabilities (available with Workday Extend Professional), and the Workday Developer CLI will be generally available in late 2025.

For more information

• Read about the new Workday Agent Partner Network .
• Explore new agents from Workday and partners available today at Workday Marketplace.

About Labor Day
Workday is the AI platform for managing people , money and agents . The Workday platform is built with AI at its core to help customers empower people, improve work, and advance their businesses forever. Workday is used by more than 11,000 organizations around the world and across industries—from midsize businesses to more than 60% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.

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