Salesforce apex — SfSkills domain router
Apex and SOQL: triggers, Apex governor limits, async processing, OUTBOUND HTTP callouts, security enforcement, and test patterns. Owns calling an external API FROM Salesforce; salesforce-integration owns inbound. Generic nightly scheduling without naming code belongs to salesforce-flow. Codebase security review belongs to salesforce-security. NOT for SOSL — use salesforce-data.
159 skill packages live under
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apex/<slug>/SKILL.md. They are not
loaded — reach them by path, on demand.
Generated by scripts/build_plugin.py. Do not hand-edit.
How to find the right skill
Three mechanisms, listed in order of reliability on a fresh install.
Use the first one that is available; do not stop at a guess.
1. The shipped roster (always works, no setup).
Read references/skill-index.md next to this file. It lists every
apex skill package with a one-line gloss, generated from
registry/skills.json. Scan it and pick by name.
2. The MCP server (fast, needs the sfskills-mcp server connected).
Call the search_skill tool with the user's phrasing and domain: "apex". It returns
ranked skill ids. get_skill then returns the package contents.
3. The search CLI (fast, needs a locally built index).
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/search_knowledge.py" "<the user's question>" --domain apex --json
This needs vector_index/, which is not shipped — it is gitignored
and must be built once per clone:
cd "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}" && python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt && python3 scripts/build_index.py
If the command errors or reports Coverage: NONE, fall back to
mechanism 1 rather than telling the user the topic is uncovered.
Then read the package. Open the exact
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/<domain>/<slug>/SKILL.md the lookup
returned, plus its references/gotchas.md and
references/llm-anti-patterns.md. Do not answer from this router:
it is a map, not the territory.
Featured entry points
Curated starting points when the request is broad or the lookup is
ambiguous. This is a shortlist, not the catalogue — the roster at
references/skill-index.md has all 159.
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apex/trigger-framework/SKILL.md — one trigger per object, handler dispatch, and recursion control
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apex/governor-limits/SKILL.md — the limit table and which ones actually bite in practice
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apex/soql-fundamentals/SKILL.md — selectivity, relationship queries, and queries inside loops
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apex/apex-security-patterns/SKILL.md — CRUD/FLS enforcement, sharing keywords, and injection-safe dynamic SOQL
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apex/batch-apex-patterns/SKILL.md — Batchable structure, chaining, scope sizing and failure recovery
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apex/apex-queueable-patterns/SKILL.md — the default async choice, with chaining depth and callout rules
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apex/test-data-factory-patterns/SKILL.md — a reusable factory so bulk tests are not copy-pasted record builders
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apex/test-class-standards/SKILL.md — assertions, bulk cases, negative paths, and what coverage does not prove
Decision trees
Read the tree before activating a skill when the request could be
solved more than one way, and cite the branch that decided it.
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/standards/decision-trees/automation-selection.md — read before writing Apex that a Flow could do
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/standards/decision-trees/async-selection.md — @future vs Queueable vs Batch vs Schedulable vs Platform Events
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/standards/decision-trees/performance-tuning.md — read on any CPU, heap, SOQL or limit symptom
Canonical templates
Do not hand-roll an idiom that already exists. Copy from
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/apex/ and rename in the consuming
project; never edit the template in place.
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/apex/TriggerHandler.cls
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/apex/SecurityUtils.cls
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/apex/tests/TestDataFactory.cls
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/apex/README.md — the full list
Run-time agents for this domain
Invoke one of these subagents when the ask is a whole workflow
rather than a single question:
apex-builder — Generate an Apex scaffold for any canonical surface
apex-refactorer — Refactor an Apex class to canonical patterns
apex-test-failure-triager — Diagnose an existing Apex test run failure
automation-transaction-profiler — Automation Transaction Profiler
security-scanner — Security audit for Apex, callouts, and sharing
soql-optimizer — Find and fix SOQL anti-patterns
test-class-generator — Generate a bulk-safe Apex test class
trigger-consolidator — Consolidate N triggers on an sObject into one handler
Rules
- Answer from the opened
apex package, never from this router.
- Cite the skill id and, where one applied, the decision-tree branch.
- Never claim a topic is uncovered without pasting lookup output.
- Never deploy to an org.