Integrated development experience overview
Learn how the integrated development experience helps you design, validate, and deploy business configuration, Life Cycle Actions, workflows, and match rules, with AI-assisted authoring and Git support.
The integrated development experience transforms how teams design and manage Reltio configuration by making data modeling faster, simpler, and more intuitive. It brings business configuration, Life Cycle Actions, workflows, and match rules into one editor. From AI-assisted configuration to safe deployment and version tracking, it helps you accelerate implementation while maintaining quality and control.
Build configurations faster with AI
Business configuration is foundational to every Reltio implementation. Whether you are introducing new business entities, extending an existing data model, or evolving your organization's configuration over time, you need tools that help you move quickly without compromising quality or control.
The integrated development experience is an AI-powered editor extension for VS Code and Cursor that simplifies how teams design, manage, validate, and deploy Reltio configurations. It brings together AI-assisted authoring, intelligent navigation, ontology visualization, real-time validation, version history, and deployment in one place. Use the AI agent to develop and deploy Life Cycle Actions (LCAs), Reltio workflows, and match rules. The result is a faster way to build and evolve your Reltio data model.
The integrated development experience is intended for the following roles:
How the integrated development experience helps your team
The integrated development experience offers you the following benefits:
- Build configurations faster with AI-assisted authoring and automation.
- Reduce manual effort through guided authoring, automatic dependency creation, and code completion.
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Develop Life Cycle Actions, workflows, and match rules with the AI agent, in the same workspace as your business configuration.
- Work with confidence using real-time validation, configuration comparison, and safe deployment.
- Understand complex data models with ontology visualization and intelligent navigation across business configuration objects.
- Collaborate more effectively with built-in version history and change tracking.
Whether you are implementing Reltio for the first time or continuously evolving an existing data model, the integrated development experience helps your team spend less time managing configuration and more time delivering trusted, AI-ready data.
Key capabilities
The integrated development experience provides the following capabilities across the modeling workflow:
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Tenant and Git connectivity | Connect securely to a Reltio tenant, keep its configuration in Git, or work from a Git repository. |
| Intelligent navigation | Browse the complete configuration and navigate among entity, relationship, interaction, hierarchy, and other object types. |
| AI-assisted authoring | Create different object types through guided actions or natural-language prompts. |
| Code completion and validation | Get context-aware suggestions and real-time validation while you edit metadata. When you add a reference attribute, the integrated development experience creates the required relation type automatically. |
| Ontology visualization | Visualize your business configuration to understand entities, relationships, and their connections. |
| Life Cycle Action development | Review existing LCA configurations or use natural language prompts to create new LCAs and generate their code with an AI agent. After deploying the code to your AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure environment, link the deployed function in your tenant business configuration. After reviewing the changes, apply the configuration to your Reltio tenant. |
| Workflow development | Create a workflow from a template or duplicate an existing workflow, then visualize it and edit its BPMN with live validation. Review the changes before deploying the workflow to your Reltio tenant or committing it to your Reltio-provisioned Bitbucket repository. |
| AI-assisted match rules | Describe a match rule requirement in a natural language prompt. The AI agent builds the rule, tests it against your connected Reltio tenant, and helps you add it to your business configuration. |
| Safe deployment | Review your changes with a comparison before you apply them to your Reltio tenant. |
| Version history | View configuration history, compare versions, and see who changed what and when. |
Workflow overview
Working in the integrated development experience involves the following stages:
- Install the extension: Install the integrated development experience extension for Cursor or VS Code.
- Connect to your source: To connect to a Reltio tenant, authenticate with your Reltio environment, select a tenant, and open your business configuration in the editor. To work from version control, connect to a Git repository by entering the Git URL or opening a Git folder, select a business configuration, and open it in the editor. To keep the configuration of a Reltio tenant in a Git repository, connect the Reltio tenant to Git.
- Create or modify configuration: Add new objects through the context menu or natural language prompts to the AI agent in your editor. The integrated development experience validates changes inline and highlights errors. Open the ontology view to review entity types and the relationships between them. To develop Life Cycle Actions, workflows, or match rules, see Life Cycle Actions, workflows, and AI-assisted match rules.
- Deploy your changes: If you work from a Reltio tenant, review the differences and apply your configuration to the Reltio tenant. If you work from a Git repository, review, commit, and push your changes through the Source Control view of the editor. If the Reltio tenant is connected to Git, also commit and push your changes in the Source Control view, and promote them between Reltio tenants.