Workday Extend Developer with Claude AI Bootcamp

Overview

Build Workday Extend applications and governed AI agents using Claude Code, with hands-on PMD, REST, WQL, security, testing, deployment, and a capstone project.

What you will learn

• Build Workday Extend Applications: Create functional PMD pages, forms, business objects, workflows and data-driven interfaces.
• Develop with Claude Code: Use Claude for planned coding, diff review, debugging and refactoring with human oversight.
• Integrate Secure Workday Agents: Build governed agent skills and controlled integrations with Workday data and actions.
• Deliver a Capstone Application: Present a working application and agent with repository, testing evidence and documentation.

Who this course is for

• Workday Technical Consultants: Develop hands-on Workday Extend skills and build custom applications.
• Workday Integration Consultants: Expand from integrations into Workday application and agent development.
• Software Developers: Learn to build and deploy custom applications within Workday.
• Workday Administrators and Analysts: Apply existing Workday knowledge and basic coding skills to Extend projects.

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of Workday navigation, business objects and security concepts.
• Familiarity with programming fundamentals; introductory JavaScript, JSON and REST API knowledge is helpful.
• Basic exposure to VS Code, Git and command-line tools.
• No prior Workday Extend or Claude experience is required.

Curriculum

1. How Claude works

   • Next-token prediction and why models produce confident errors
   • Tokens and context
   • The Claude model tiers
   • What Claude is good and bad at for coding
   • Prompting basics with clear instructions, examples and context

   Hands-on:

   • Probe Claude with Workday-style coding tasks it handles well and badly, and record the patterns you see.

2. Claude Code fundamentals

   • Install and sign in to Claude Code
   • Project instructions with CLAUDE.md
   • Plan mode
   • Reviewing diffs before accepting them
   • Permission modes
   • Git checkpoints
   • Slash commands
   • An introduction to Skills and MCP

   Hands-on:

   • Use Claude Code to plan, implement and review a small change in a sample JavaScript repository.

3. Responsible AI use with Workday data

   • What must never be pasted into prompts, such as personal data, compensation and tenant credentials
   • Data handling on business Claude plans
   • How Workday Developer Agent handles developer data
   • Reviewing AI-generated code for security
   • AI-use disclosure

   Hands-on:

   • Write AI usage rules for an Extend project and record them in its CLAUDE.md.
   • Weekly application: Set up a personal Claude Code environment ready for Extend development.
   • Evidence of progress: Claude observation log, configured CLAUDE.md and AI usage rules.

4. Extend architecture and solution design

   • Extend vs native configuration
   • Presentation/model components
   • App metadata and development lifecycle
   • Where Workday Build agents and orchestrations fit
   • Selecting appropriate business use cases

   Hands-on:

   • Map a real request process to screens, data, security and APIs.

5. Tenant and developer setup

   • Developer registration
   • Tenant and App Builder access
   • Developer documentation
   • VS Code, Git and WDCLI
   • Opening an Extend project in Claude Code with a CLAUDE.md of Extend conventions
   • The optional Workday Developer Agent plugin for Claude Code
   • App packaging and deployment concepts

   Hands-on:

   • Provision the environment and create a starter project opened in Claude Code.

6. JSON, JavaScript and Claude-assisted coding

   • Objects, arrays, conditions, functions, HTTP/REST and JSON validation
   • Asking Claude to explain, generate and test code
   • Reviewing every generated change

   Hands-on:

   • Build JSON payloads and a JavaScript validation function with Claude, then review the diff.
   • Weekly application: Plan the course request-management application and record its Extend conventions in the project’s CLAUDE.md.
   • Evidence of progress: Solution map, working starter project and CLAUDE.md.

7. App structure and PMD metadata

   • Application metadata
   • PMD page configuration
   • View/edit pages
   • Widgets and their properties
   • Component hierarchy
   • Generating and reviewing PMD with Claude Code

   Hands-on:

   • Create an application shell and request submission page.

8. Forms, grids and navigation

   • Inputs, lists, tables/grids, layout, required fields, dynamic visibility and navigation
   • Accessible error messages

   Hands-on:

   • Build an editable request form.

9. Client-side behavior

   • PMD expressions and predefined functions
   • Events, form state and conditional rendering
   • Claude-assisted widget review

   Hands-on:

   • Add live validation and conditional fields.
   • Weekly application: Complete the request list and detail pages and link them to the request form.
   • Evidence of progress: Working pages and navigation, with a commit history of reviewed Claude changes.

10. Business-object design

    • Custom model objects
    • Data types
    • Keys
    • Single-instance relationships
    • Multi-instance fields
    • Schema tradeoffs
    • Using Claude to critique a proposed schema

    Hands-on:

    • Design requester, request and line-item objects.

11. Model endpoints and REST

    • Inbound/outbound endpoints
    • CRUD patterns
    • Request/response payloads
    • Authentication context
    • Errors and access restrictions

    Hands-on:

    • Create and retrieve records from a PMD page.

12. WQL and dynamic lists

    • WQL query structure
    • Selection/filtering
    • List widgets
    • Lookup data
    • Mock data and API inspection
    • Asking Claude to draft and explain WQL, then verifying results

    Hands-on:

    • Populate searchable employee and request selectors.
    • Weekly application: Connect every page of the application to its business objects through endpoints and WQL-driven selectors.
    • Evidence of progress: Object model, working CRUD endpoints and verified WQL queries.

13. PMD script modules

    • Custom JavaScript functions
    • Script module reuse
    • Widget event handlers
    • Error handling for client/server failures

    Hands-on:

    • Build reusable field validation and error displays.

14. Multi-step page flows

    • AMD flow definitions
    • flowDefinition structure
    • Navigation states
    • Conditional transitions
    • User journey design

    Hands-on:

    • Build a submit-review-confirm flow with conditional branching.

15. Reusable pods

    • Pod definitions
    • Parameter passing
    • Shared UI logic
    • Composition
    • Maintainability
    • Regression checks

    Hands-on:

    • Extract a request summary into a parameterized pod.
    • Weekly application: Deliver a complete submit-review-confirm journey built on shared script modules and pods.
    • Evidence of progress: Flow definition, script modules, pod library and regression notes.

16. Advanced grid interactions

    • Sorting and filtering
    • Mock records
    • Server pagination
    • Export behavior where available
    • Empty states
    • Performance

    Hands-on:

    • Build a paginated request management grid.

17. Advanced endpoints

    • Deferred loading
    • Search endpoints
    • instanceList behavior
    • Error states
    • Request tracing
    • Response mapping

    Hands-on:

    • Add deferred request details and a searchable lookup.

18. Attachment objects

    • Attachment model concepts
    • fileUploader
    • Multipart upload patterns
    • Display/download permissions
    • File validation

    Hands-on:

    • Attach and display a receipt or supporting document.
    • Weekly application: Integrate the management grid, deferred details and document uploads into the application.
    • Evidence of progress: Working grid, search endpoint and attachment feature with test cases.

19. Security domains

    • Model security domains
    • Permissions
    • Security groups
    • Least privilege
    • Protecting sensitive fields

    Hands-on:

    • Implement a requester/reviewer/admin access matrix.

20. Page-level security and tasks

    • Page authorization
    • Context-free tasks
    • Object-context tasks
    • Home-page entry points
    • Test-user scenarios

    Hands-on:

    • Add secure navigation and a request-review task.

21. Tenant attributes and configuration

    • App attributes
    • Environment-specific values
    • Tenant configuration
    • Secrets handling concepts
    • Validation

    Hands-on:

    • Configure app-level defaults without hardcoding tenant values.
    • Weekly application: Secure the application end to end and test it as a requester, reviewer and administrator.
    • Evidence of progress: Access matrix, test-user results and configuration guide.

22. Workday Build agent concepts

    • The Workday Build platform: Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools over MCP, Agent System of Record, Agent Passport and Flowise Agent Builder
    • How agents inherit Workday security, delegation, business process controls and audit
    • Choosing between an Extend app, an orchestration and an agent

    Hands-on:

    • Decide which parts of the request process suit an agent and document the agent’s boundaries.

23. Build a custom agent with skills

    • Write agent skills in the open AgentSkills (Skills.md) format
    • Scope instructions, escalation rules and allowed tools
    • Use Claude Code to draft and refine skills
    • Adapt examples from Workday’s developer program

    Hands-on:

    • Build a request-policy agent skill that answers questions and escalates anything it cannot verify.

24. Connect agents to Workday data and actions

    • Select Agent-Ready Tools
    • Separate read-only tools from actions
    • Require human approval for state changes
    • Build custom actions through connectors
    • Register and govern agents in the Agent System of Record

    Hands-on:

    • Connect the agent to request data through Agent-Ready Tools, with approval required before updates.
    • Weekly application: Test the agent with ambiguous, out-of-scope and injection-style requests, and document its governance.
    • Evidence of progress: Agent skill files, tool permission list, test results and governance note.

25. Claude Code at scale on Extend projects

    • Decompose requirements into plans
    • Package Extend patterns as project Skills and custom slash commands
    • Use subagents for review and hooks for automatic checks
    • Manage context in large apps
    • Delegate to Workday Developer Agent

    Hands-on:

    • Generate an implementation plan and review a small feature patch.

26. AI-assisted debugging and refactoring

    • Explain PMD/JSON errors
    • Investigate API responses
    • Refactor pods
    • Write edge-case tests
    • Review security assumptions

    Hands-on:

    • Repair a broken page and document its root cause.

27. Release readiness

    • Git workflows
    • Code reviews including review of AI-generated changes
    • Environment differences
    • Packaging
    • Testing and deployment to an authorized tenant

    Hands-on:

    • Create a release checklist and test evidence pack.
    • Weekly application: Ship a reviewed release of the application and its agent to an authorized tenant.
    • Evidence of progress: Release checklist, test evidence pack and code review record.

28. Solution architecture workshop

    • Business requirements
    • Wireframes
    • Model schema
    • API inventory
    • Agent scope
    • Security matrix
    • Acceptance criteria

    Hands-on:

    • Submit a reviewed capstone design.

29. Capstone build clinic

    • Build, integrate, test and troubleshoot the complete application
    • Instructor feedback and code quality review

    Hands-on:

    • Submit the working application and repository.

30. Demonstration and evaluation

    • Live demo
    • Design defense
    • Failure scenarios
    • AI-use disclosure
    • Deployment limitations
    • Portfolio presentation

    Hands-on:

    • Present the application, test report and technical walkthrough.
    • Weekly application: Complete the capstone application and agent, and present them to a review panel.
    • Evidence of progress: Working application and agent, source repository, test report and technical documentation.

Technology stack

• Workday Extend
• Workday App Builder
• VS Code
• Git
• Workday CLI
• Claude Code
• Workday Developer Agent
• Workday Build
• Agent Passport
• Flowise Agent Builder
• AgentSkills

Course fee

$1299 $899

What's included

• Live cohort + recordings: Attend every session live and revisit the recordings for one year.
• Real lab environment: Practise on a hands-on environment that mirrors real projects.
• Live doubt-clearing support: Ask questions and get answers in real time during every session.
• Assessments and lab activities: Apply what you learn through graded assessments and guided labs.
• Learning assets: Keep the slides, notes, and reference material for good.
• Role-readiness guidance: Mentor guidance to get you ready for the role you are targeting.
• Verifiable certificate: Earn a shareable certificate on completing the hands-on capstone.
• Global peer community: Learn with a global cohort and stay connected after the program.

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