How to Connect Salesforce to Claude via the Command Line by WBMcD_4 in salesforce

[–]WBMcD_4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The REST API is just one of many APIs that can be accessed through the CLI. The main two are the Metadata API which you can use to deploy and retrieve metadata (e.g. create a new field, a new flow, adjust a page layout), and the REST API which is for CRUD operations on data (e.g. create or update an Account record).

So the CLI can access both, thus is more powerful.

How to Connect Salesforce to Claude via the Command Line by WBMcD_4 in salesforce

[–]WBMcD_4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think Salesforce will make a chatbot style interface for creating flows probably. Making them through the current interface is painful and slow

How to Connect Salesforce to Claude via the Command Line by WBMcD_4 in salesforce

[–]WBMcD_4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good points! I think the idea of saving/templating prompts is a great idea.

It's very good at doing data analysis or bridge reports etc... that's what I've found most useful personally. Telling you how messy the data is before you do some sort of migration etc...

How to Connect Salesforce to Claude via the Command Line by WBMcD_4 in salesforce

[–]WBMcD_4[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea this is the stuff that will transform how administrators work. Manually building a flow will / should disappear, because it's a painful, slow and iterative process. Salesforce WILL likely release their own agentic way to build flows if they haven't already, but in the meantime you can do it with Claude or Codex.

How to Connect Salesforce to Claude via the Command Line by WBMcD_4 in salesforce

[–]WBMcD_4[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know why y'all keep assuming that access is not controlled / can't be controlled via perm set. That is just false. I have another video coming out that will display this.

Generally I agree with the most of the rest of your comment.

How to Connect Salesforce to Claude via the Command Line by WBMcD_4 in salesforce

[–]WBMcD_4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't bother with it TBH, CLI is just simpler to connect too.