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UiPath launches coding agent integration for enterprises

UiPath launches coding agent integration for enterprises

Wed, 13th May 2026 (Today)
Mark Tarre
MARK TARRE News Chief

UiPath has launched UiPath for Coding Agents, a native integration for coding agents on its business orchestration and automation platform.

The product brings coding agents into UiPath's broader platform for creating, testing, deploying, operating and governing automations. Customers can use natural language with a coding agent and then move the resulting automation through enterprise workflows.

Coding agents have become a popular way to generate software, but many companies still run them outside established development and compliance processes. That can leave teams with manual handoffs between code generation, review, testing and deployment, especially when agents need to interact with enterprise systems and other tools.

UiPath is positioning the product as a layer between coding agents and enterprise controls. Customers will be able to work with more than one coding agent rather than commit to a single supplier, while keeping orchestration, observability and governance in one place.

Initial support covers Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, and the product is available now to enterprise customers.

Enterprise controls

At the centre of the launch is a promise to bring AI-generated automation under the same rules as other software work inside large organisations. Policy enforcement, audit trails, credential vaults, role-based access control and runtime controls will apply to automations created by coding agents as well as those built by human developers.

That matters for companies in regulated sectors, where automation projects often need to pass through formal promotion and production processes. UiPath said its platform is designed so automations can continue running even when underlying AI models change, developers leave a project or auditors examine the process.

UiPath also argued that the product could broaden access to automation development. Alongside software developers, it cited business analysts, process owners and domain experts as potential users who could prototype and refine automations through conversations with coding agents.

For existing users of the UiPath platform, the launch extends beyond initial code generation into testing, debugging and deployment. UiPath said this could reduce the wait for specialist development resources and bring more of the automation lifecycle into a single managed environment.

Market shift

The launch reflects a wider shift in enterprise software as companies test how generative AI tools can move from experimental use into governed production settings. Vendors across the market are trying to show that AI assistants and agents can fit established security, software delivery and audit requirements rather than remain stand-alone tools for individual developers.

UiPath's approach is to keep the platform open to different coding agents as those models evolve. Departments could use different tools, including Claude Code in one team and Codex in another, without changing the orchestration layer that manages execution and control.

Daniel Dines, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of UiPath, described the launch as a change in who can build on the platform.

"The emergence of coding agents signals a fundamental shift in the definition of a builder on our platform," said Daniel Dines, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of UiPath. "We are first to market with a platform that treats AI-generated automations as first-class citizens, with the same governance, reliability, and scale that enterprises demand. Now, anyone can describe what they want, direct a coding agent to produce it, and carry through every stage to production. It lowers the barrier to who can build, crossing the line from idea to execution. Virtually anyone-product managers, analysts, and operators-can describe what they want, direct a coding agent to produce it, and carry it through to something that actually runs."