# Workday Extend

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/workday-extend/  
**Website:** https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/platform-product-extensions/app-development.html  
**APIs profiled:** 16

Workday Extend is a platform that enables developers to build custom applications that integrate seamlessly with Workday. It provides APIs, development tools, and a runtime environment for creating tailored solutions that extend Workday's core functionality.

## Kin Score — 44.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 44.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 65.6 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 48.7 |
| Access Clarity | 48.7 |

## Agent readiness — 32.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (16)

- **Workday Orchestrate Insights API** — API for accessing orchestration execution data and monitoring information. Provides insights into orchestration performance, run history, and operational metrics for troubleshoo...
- **Workday Illuminate AI API** — AI-powered APIs within Workday Illuminate that provide skills and sentiment analysis, document intelligence, natural language WQL queries, and machine learning forecasting capab...
- **Workday Extend App Configurations API** — Operations for managing application configuration settings and environment-specific parameters.
- **Workday Extend App Deployments API** — Operations for deploying and managing Extend application instances within a tenant.
- **Workday Extend App Versions API** — Operations for managing application versions and release lifecycle.
- **Workday Extend Apps API** — Operations for managing Extend applications including registration, deployment, and configuration.
- **Workday Extend Custom Object Definitions API** — Operations for defining and managing custom object types including their schemas, attributes, and relationships to standard Workday objects.
- **Workday Extend Custom Object Fields API** — Operations for managing the fields and attributes defined within custom object schemas.
- **Workday Extend Custom Object Instances API** — Operations for creating, reading, updating, and deleting custom object data instances attached to Workday business objects.
- **Workday Extend Graph Query API** — Operations for querying Workday business objects using the Graph API. Supports flexible field selection and relationship traversal.
- **Workday Extend Orchestration Executions API** — Operations for triggering orchestration runs, monitoring execution status, and retrieving execution results.
- **Workday Extend Orchestration Steps API** — Operations for managing individual steps within an orchestration flow, including connectors, transformations, and conditions.
- **Workday Extend Orchestration Triggers API** — Operations for configuring orchestration triggers including event-based, scheduled, and API-triggered orchestrations.
- **Workday Extend Orchestrations API** — Operations for managing orchestration definitions including creation, configuration, versioning, and lifecycle management.
- **Workday Extend Schema Introspection API** — Operations for discovering available business objects, their fields, relationships, and query capabilities through the Graph API.
- **Workday Extend WQL Query API** — Operations for executing Workday Query Language (WQL) queries against the Workday data model. WQL provides SQL-like syntax for complex data retrieval across business objects.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Workday Extend Agentic Access** — 44 operations · 23 acting

## Security (3)

- **Workday Extend Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Workday Extend Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Workday Extend Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Workday Extend Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Automation, Custom Applications, Enterprise, Extensions, HCM, Integration, Orchestration, Platform-as-a-Service

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/workday-extend/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.