Generate custom Salesforce Connect adapters with AI skills and headless registration
Custom Salesforce Connect Apex adapters require implementing DataSource.Provider and DataSource.Connection interfaces, which traditionally demands significant Apex expertise and careful handling of field types, pagination, and error contracts. The article introduces the platform-salesforce-connect-adapter-generate skill, an open-source capability that grounds coding agents in this exact framework so they produce syntactically correct and contract-compliant code on the first attempt.
Using a natural language prompt, a developer can instruct an agent like Claude Code or Agentforce Vibes to generate both adapter classes, map json fields to correct datasource datatypes, enforce required ExternalId columns, and wire Named Credentials without hardcoding secrets. The post demonstrates this with a public rail api example, showing how the generated Connection class handles query context and returns a properly structured TableResult.
After deploying the Apex classes via the Salesforce CLI, the article explains how the Headless 360 MCP Server exposes configuration operations as programmatic tools. This allows the same agent to create the external data source definition through an api call rather than navigating the Setup wizard. The author notes that Winter ’27 will expand this approach to cover the full lifecycle of external data sources and standard adapter extensibility.