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Programming & TechnicalWorkday DevCon 2026 Opening Keynote • Workday
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Workday's DevCon 2026 keynote announces a fundamental shift to an "agent-ready" developer platform, headlined by "Developer Agent" — a tool that lets developers build full enterprise applications and AI agents on Workday using natural language prompts from any IDE (Cursor, Google Anti-Gravity, VS Code) via MCP. CTO Gabe Monroy frames the platform evolution as resolving the tension between enterprise trust (people and money systems) and agentic AI velocity, while new features like Agent Ready Tools, Agent Passport (security/compliance verification with Cisco), and open interoperability protocols (A2A, MCP, A2UI) aim to make Workday an open, composable platform rather than a closed ecosystem.
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Imagine you have a really smart helper robot that you can talk to in normal words, and it builds things for you on a giant computer system that keeps track of people's jobs and money. Before, you had to click lots of buttons and learn special rules to build things. Now you just tell the robot what you want — like 'build me an app that helps people find new jobs' — and it builds the whole thing super fast! But because this computer handles important stuff like paying people, there are special safety stickers (called passports) to make sure the robot helpers don't make mistakes.
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- !Sign up for Developer Agent Early Access to build Workday apps and agents using natural language prompts in your preferred IDE
- !Learn MCP (Model Context Protocol) as the foundational connectivity standard for Developer Agent, agent-ready tools, and agent actions
- !Understand the skill.md open specification for defining agent skills, deployment, and tool usage
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