Workday and Microsoft want to make it simpler for developers to register the AI agents they create using Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio in Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR). They say this will help enterprises more securely manage their workers, both human and agentic.

Agents built with the Microsoft tools each receive a Microsoft Entra Agent ID, giving them verified individual identities and allowing administrators to define the permissions and access they’re entitled to, and Workday’s ASOR will provide the business context for their operation. That means agents will be able to interoperate.

For example, Workday said, an employee could ask a Microsoft Employee Self Service Agent in Microsoft Copilot to update their career goals: The agent would hand off the request to the Workday agent, which would perform the necessary tasks to complete the request without requiring the employee to leave the Microsoft agent.