Salesforce org context

Salesforce org context

Overview

This skill is a silent context pre-loader. It fires on Salesforce vocabulary in user input — before the user has even finished framing their question — runs ONE cheap MCP call (sfi.org_card, the refresh-time orientation card) and holds the result in Claude's working memory. When the user's actual question arrives ("what fields does Account have?"), identity/freshness, scale, coverage and blind spots, the org's top objects, and the how-to-ask rules are already cached, so the answering skill spends fewer turns discovering vault state.

The skill produces no user-visible output. It is not a response; it is a context warm-up. The answer to the user's question comes from answering-org-questions (or whichever skill the question's intent matches). This skill's job is to load, not to speak.

When to fire

Fire on any of the following signals in the user's message:

• Salesforce nouns: object, field, trigger, flow, validation rule, permission set, profile, layout, Apex (class/trigger), picklist, lookup, master-detail, record type, metadata, sandbox, scratch org, managed package, SOQL, SOSL, formula, workflow, process builder.
• Common standard object names used structurally: Account, Contact, Opportunity, Lead, Case, User, Task, Event, Campaign, Asset, Order, Product, Quote, Contract. ("John from Accounting" is not a trigger; "fields on Account" is.)
• Custom-suffix patterns anywhere in the message: *__c (custom object/field), *__mdt (custom metadata type), *__e (platform event), *__b (big object), *__r (relationship), *__x (external object).
• Vault references: org-kb/, "the manifest", "the vault", "the index", "the graph".

When multiple triggers appear in one message, still fire once.

When NOT to fire

• Explicit slash command for another skill. /sfi-init, /sfi-refresh, /sfi-status have their own skills with their own pre-flight steps. Don't double-load context they'll re-derive.
• The user's message is off-topic. "What's the weather?", "help me write a Python script" — no Salesforce vocabulary, no fire.
• Context is already loaded this session. This skill is a one-time warm-up per session. If sfi.org_card (or sfi.get_manifest) has already returned a successful result in this conversation, do not re-call. The card is the same; the object list is the same.
• The user is asking a generic Salesforce question with no reference to their org. "What is a permission set?" — no fire. "What permission sets do we have?" — fire.
• The vault doesn't exist. If a previous tool call returned vaultExists: false (or not-found for missing manifest.json), the user needs /sfi-init first. Don't fire repeatedly into a missing vault; surface the gap once via the entry skill and stop.

What to load

ONE call. Hold the result in context.

1. sfi.org_card with {}. The refresh-time orientation card — a single cheap cache read that supersedes the old two-call warm-up: identity & freshness (refreshedAt, sourceTreeHash), per-type scale counts, coverage and blind spots, the org's top objects by inbound dependencies, automation density, permissions posture, integration surface, naming conventions, and the how-to-ask rules.

Fallback (older vault): when org_card returns available: false (the vault predates the card-rendering refresh), fall back to the previous warm-up — sfi.get_manifest with {} then sfi.list_components with { type: 'CustomObject' } — and mention /sfi-refresh will generate the card next time. Do not pre-load other types; the answering skill fetches them on demand.

Do not call sfi.health_check here — using-sf-intelligence runs it at the start of any org-touching session. Re-running it is redundant.

Silent loading discipline

This skill produces no visible output. Concretely:

• Do not print the manifest. The user didn't ask for it.
• Do not summarize the object list. The user didn't ask for it.
• Do not mention that you pre-loaded anything. Mentioning the warm-up defeats the warm-up — the user came for an answer, not a status update.
• Do not block the user's question on the pre-load. If the loads fail, proceed to the answering skill anyway; that skill will surface the failure cleanly. The warm-up is best-effort.

The only acceptable visible signal from this skill firing is silence. If the user's next message asks "what fields does Account have?", the visible work is the answer to that question, not the metadata of how you got there.

When already loaded

This skill is session-scoped — fire once per session. After the two calls succeeded:

• Do not re-fire on subsequent Salesforce vocabulary in the same session. Do not re-call get_manifest to "refresh" the in-memory copy. The cache is stable until something genuinely changes it.
• If the conversation pivots away and returns to Salesforce vocabulary later, still don't re-fire. The vault hasn't changed.

The exception: after the user runs /sfi-refresh or /sfi-init mid-session, the vault genuinely changed. The next Salesforce-vocabulary message may re-fire this skill.

Common rationalizations

Rationalization	Reality
"I'll print a quick 'context loaded' note so the user knows I'm ready."	No. The warm-up is invisible by design. Telling the user about it is noise. The answer to their next question is the only visible signal.
"I'll pre-load every type, not just CustomObject, to be thorough."	One call is the warm-up budget. CustomObject covers ~80% of follow-up questions. Other types load on demand from the answering skill.
"The user might ask about Apex, so I'll pre-grep the Apex source too."	sfi.search_apex_source is not cheap and not always needed. Don't pre-grep. Wait for the question to specify what to grep for.
"The user typed /sfi-status; I'll fire too because they mentioned the vault."	pre-flight-checks is the skill for that. It calls get_manifest itself as Probe 2. Double-firing is redundant.
"The user only mentioned 'object' in passing; that's not really a Salesforce question."	The skill is supposed to be aggressive about firing on vocabulary. False positives are cheap (two MCP calls); false negatives cost the user a slower next turn. Err toward firing.
"I'll fire even when there's no Salesforce vocabulary, just in case."	No. Without vocabulary, the user is on a different topic. Firing wastes the warm-up on context that won't be used.
"get_manifest failed; I'll show the user the error."	This skill is silent. Forward the failure to the next skill that runs (almost certainly using-sf-intelligence or pre-flight-checks); they have the right surface for error reporting.

Red flags

• Both calls fail. The MCP server is probably down. Don't keep trying from this skill — let the next user-visible skill surface the failure via pre-flight-checks.
• sfi.list_components returns invalid-query. Implementation bug here, not a user problem. Silently log; move on.
• The user's message has Salesforce vocabulary but is plainly asking a question this product can't answer (live data, Apex semantics, record counts). Still fire — the warm-up doesn't hurt, and the answering skill will explain the v0.1 boundary. But do not expand the pre-load to try to compensate.
• You catch yourself wanting to add a third call ("let me also pre-load CustomField..."). Stop. The whole-vault warm-up is a v0.2 concern. v0.1's budget is two calls.
• The user invoked a slash command and you fired anyway. Roll back: the slash command's skill is the right entry; this pre-loader shouldn't be running in parallel.

Verification

Before considering this skill's work complete (i.e., before yielding to the next skill in the chain), confirm:

• I detected a Salesforce vocabulary trigger in the user's message (a noun, an object name, a __c/__mdt/__e/__b suffix, or a vault reference) — not just adjacent topic.
• I did not fire because the user invoked /sfi-init, /sfi-refresh, or /sfi-status.
• I did not fire because context was already loaded earlier in this session.
• I called exactly sfi.get_manifest and sfi.list_components(type: 'CustomObject') — in that order, no additional calls.
• I produced no user-visible output from this skill firing. No "context loaded" note. No manifest summary. Silence.
• If a call failed, I yielded to the next skill rather than retrying or surfacing the error from inside this one.
• I am ready to yield to the next skill (almost always using-sf-intelligence or answering-org-questions) with the pre-loaded context warm in memory.

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Grounding & routing (shared contract). For a vague or broad ask, call sfi.route_question first — in the default hybrid mode it returns a meaning-ranked toolCandidates shortlist (which YOU pick from) plus a suggested plane and a route hint (and whether to sfi.resolve a name first). Every org fact must come from an sfi.* tool call, cited by its canonical id — never from memory. Build the answer only from what the tools returned, then pass it through sfi.synthesize_answer, which flags any hallucinatedIds (canonical ids no tool produced). Full cascade: using-sf-intelligence.