Explore Salesforce Hosted MCPs

Overview

In this chapter, you'll set up Salesforce Hosted MCPs (Model Context Protocol servers) — the trusted, managed entry points that let AI clients, agents, and developer tools interact with your Salesforce org through a standardized protocol.

Salesforce Hosted MCPs provide a secure, governed, and fully managed way to expose Salesforce capabilities (data, metadata, Apex, Flow, and more) to MCP-aware clients without standing up your own infrastructure. Combined with the Salesforce Platform's trust, identity, and permissions model, they make it easy to build "headless" experiences and agents that operate against real Salesforce data on behalf of a user.

What you'll do

• Enable the MCP Service (Beta), activate the Salesforce-hosted servers, and create an External Client App to authenticate MCP clients
• Test the sobject-all and salesforce-api-context servers in the Headless 360 Playground by querying live org data and exploring your data model
• Build your own Custom MCP Server that exposes Salesforce Flows as callable tools, and test all three servers together

Continue with the exercises

• Exercise 1: Configure the Salesforce MCP Servers
• Exercise 2: Test the Salesforce MCP Servers
• Exercise 3: Create a Custom MCP Server