Agentforce DX: Pro-Code Agent Development

Agentforce & AIAgentforce DX: Pro-Code Agent DevelopmentBuild, preview, publish, test and ship Agentforce agents like any other code: the sf agent CLI commands, agent specs, authoring bundles with Agent Script, agent metadata types, retrieve/deploy, packaging, CI, the Agentforce DX VS Code extension and Agentforce Vibes. Ends with a full walkthrough from an empty project to a deployed, tested agent.Advanced · about 90 minutesWhat you will learn

Describe the pro-code agent lifecycle and which tool (CLI, VS Code, Agentforce Builder, Vibes) owns each step

Use the sf agent commands to generate specs and authoring bundles, validate, preview, publish, activate and test agents

Explain what an authoring bundle is and which runtime metadata (Bot, BotVersion, GenAiPlannerBundle, GenAiPlugin, GenAiFunction) publishing produces

Retrieve and deploy agents with sf project commands, including the Agent pseudo-type, and keep agents in source control

Plan packaging and CI/CD for agents, including environment-specific agent users

Take an agent from an empty DX project to a deployed, activated and tested agent

Contents

Why pro-code agents?

The pro-code lifecycle

Setting up a project and an org

Agent specs: describing the agent before writing it

Authoring bundles and Agent Script in source

Previewing agents

Publishing and activating

The agent metadata model

Retrieving and deploying agents

Source control and CI for agents

Packaging agents

VS Code: the Agentforce DX extension

Agentforce Vibes for generating agent code

Worked example: from an empty project to a deployed, tested agent

Best practices

Common pitfalls

Hands-on exercises

Key takeaways