Zoho Enhances Catalyst Platform with New AI Tools

Zoho Corporation has announced an upgrade to its Catalyst cloud development platform, introducing new artificial intelligence tools designed to facilitate the transition of AI-generated code from development to production while minimizing infrastructure and operational complexity. Key enhancements include Agent Skills, a non-interactive command-line interface (CLI), Model Context Protocol support, and integrations with AI coding assistants like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.

Kehinde Ogundare, Country Head of Zoho Nigeria, stated that while the adoption of AI coding assistants has accelerated application development, reliably deploying the resulting code remains challenging. The Catalyst platform aims to alleviate this by providing a serverless full-stack environment that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale intelligent applications with reduced operational overhead.

The Catalyst Agent Skills offer AI coding assistants contextual information about the platform, enabling them to follow specific workflows. The company has also open-sourced its AI skills repository and Catalyst’s software development kit, ensuring human oversight in production deployments.