Headless Agentforce Development
Headless development means building, running, and extending software without requiring the Salesforce platform UI. In Agentforce, it means building, deploying, and operating Agentforce agents without Agentforce Builder or Setup. Author your agents from your IDE or AI coding tool, invoke them through APIs, and expose them on any surface: web, mobile, Slack, voice, or a third-party agent host. This page covers headless development specific to Agentforce.
Headless Tools and Features
Headless Agentforce development is a set of tools that you can choose from based on what you’re building. Use this table as an inventory of tasks you can do without the platform UI and the Agentforce products that support each one.
| Task | Tools and Features |
|---|---|
| Define an agent | |
| Wire an agent to data and logic | |
| Expose an agent on a surface | |
| Test an agent programmatically | |
| Extend or debug with a coding agent |
Headless Examples
These end-to-end examples put the headless tools together. Each one builds a working agent without the UI. See Headless Agentforce Examples for the full list.
What's in This Section
- Headless Development Tools: Explore your tooling options.
- Headless Agentforce Examples: End-to-end examples that build a working agent without the UI.
- MCP Solutions: Salesforce’s Model Context Protocol servers for AI applications.
- Agentforce Vibes: The AI-powered VS Code extension for Salesforce development.
- Plugins and Skills: Reusable skill packages for AI coding tools.
See Also
- Salesforce Developers: API Catalog Connect REST API — Track and manage the connected APIs and MCP servers registered in your org as you scale your headless solutions.
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