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agentforce-architecture-analyze

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Document Agentforce agent architecture: planner, topics, actions, flows, Apex, and plugins from design-time metadata.

What is agentforce-architecture-analyze?

Reads declared metadata for a single Agentforce agent and renders a human-readable architecture document plus Mermaid invocation graph. Use this to describe, diagram, audit, or diff an agent's structure by API name in a specific org. Does not analyze runtime session traces or conversation transcripts.

  • Fetches design-time metadata (BotDefinition, GenAiPlanner, GenAiPlugin, GenAiFunction, Flow, ApexClass, GenAiPromptTemplate)
  • Renders human-readable architecture document describing planner, topics, actions, and flows
  • Generates Mermaid invocation graph visualizing agent structure
  • Supports agent version pinning and cache control via --force and --reprobe flags
  • Runs inline with 30–45s typical runtime; parallel SOQL fan-out delivers 3–5× speedup over sequential baseline
  • Stores artifacts under ~/.vibe/data/agentforce-architecture-analyze with configurable data and cache directories

How to install agentforce-architecture-analyze

npx skills add https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill agentforce-architecture-analyze
Prerequisites
  • Salesforce CLI (sf) version ≥2.136.8 installed and authenticated with org alias
  • Python 3.10+ installed
  • Agent API name (DeveloperName of the BotDefinition, not the label)
  • Org alias configured via `sf org login`
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How to use agentforce-architecture-analyze

  1. 1.Run the skill with `--org <alias> --agent <api_name>` (e.g., `--org prod --agent MySalesAgent`)
  2. 2.Optionally add `--version <version_api_name>` to pin a specific BotVersion; if omitted, the active version is used
  3. 3.Optionally add `--force` to bypass cache or `--reprobe` to refresh the 7-day channel-probe cache
  4. 4.The skill fetches metadata in parallel and writes artifacts to ~/.vibe/data/agentforce-architecture-analyze/<org_id>/<agent_api_name>__<version>/
  5. 5.Review the rendered architecture document and Mermaid graph in the output

Use cases

Good for
  • Document the complete action tree and topic structure of a production agent for compliance or knowledge transfer
  • Generate a Mermaid diagram to visualize how an agent's planner invokes topics, actions, and flows
  • Audit which Apex classes, prompt templates, and NGA plugins are wired into a specific agent version
  • Compare agent architecture across versions (e.g., v3 vs v5) to track structural changes
  • Inventory all tools and integrations available to an agent without running a live session
Who it's for
  • Salesforce Agentforce developers and architects documenting agent design
  • Platform engineers auditing agent configurations and dependencies
  • Technical leads comparing agent versions or preparing migration plans
  • Compliance and governance teams inventorying agent capabilities

agentforce-architecture-analyze FAQ

What is the difference between this skill and agentforce-d360-analyze?

agentforce-architecture-analyze reads design-time metadata (BotDefinition, topics, actions, flows, Apex, prompts, plugins) to document agent structure. agentforce-d360-analyze reads runtime audit rows and session traces. Use this skill for architecture; use d360-analyze for runtime behavior and conversation transcripts.

How long does the skill take to run?

Typical runtime is 30–45 seconds; hard cap is 60 seconds on reference fixtures. Parallel SOQL fan-out delivers 3–5× speedup over sequential baseline. Large agents with many flows scale approximately linearly.

Can I compare two agent versions?

Yes. Run the skill once with `--version v3` and once with `--version v5` to generate separate architecture documents, then diff the outputs manually or compare the Mermaid graphs.

What if I don't specify a version?

The skill resolves the active BotVersion (highest version marked as active) and documents that. Use `--version <api_name>` to pin a specific version.

Where are the artifacts stored?

By default, under ~/.vibe/data/agentforce-architecture-analyze/<org_id15>/<agent_api_name>__<agent_version>/. Override with `--data-dir <path>`.

Full instructions (SKILL.md)

Source of truth, from forcedotcom/sf-skills.


name: agentforce-architecture-analyze description: "Declared architecture snapshot for one Agentforce agent: planner, topics, actions, flows, Apex, prompt templates, and NGA plugins. Renders a human-readable architecture document and Mermaid invocation graph from design-time metadata (not runtime audit rows). TRIGGER when user asks to describe, diagram, inventory, audit, document, or diff (e.g. v3 vs v5) the architecture / action tree / topic structure / tool inventory of a specific agent by agent API name in a specific org. DO NOT TRIGGER for runtime session traces, conversation transcripts, generation timings, or gateway audit chains — this skill reads design-time metadata only (use agentforce-d360-analyze for session traces)." metadata: version: "1.0" domains: ["Agentforce"] minApiVersion: "64.0" relatedSkills: - "agentforce-d360-analyze" cliTools: - tool: ["sf"] semver: ">=2.136.8" - tool: ["python3"] semver: ">=3.10.0"

agentforce-architecture-analyze — declared architecture snapshot

Design-time metadata tree for one Agentforce agent: planner → topics → actions → flows → Apex → prompts → NGA plugins. Reads declared metadata only — BotDefinition, GenAiPlanner*, GenAiPlugin*, GenAiFunction*, Flow, ApexClass, GenAiPromptTemplate. Does not read runtime audit rows.

Runtime budget: 30–45s typical, ≤60s hard cap on reference fixtures. Sequential baseline would be 90–220s; parallel Tooling SOQL fan-out delivers a 3–5× speedup. Large bots with many flows scale approximately linearly — each flow metadata retrieve is one round-trip.

Runs inline — no subagent. Every phase is deterministic file processing.

If the user hasn't given enough to proceed

When invoked with no agent_api_name AND no org alias, print the following block verbatim — do not paraphrase, do not pre-run any script. Trigger condition: $ARGUMENTS is empty OR names no agent (no --agent flag and no known agent API name in the prose) OR names no org (no --org flag and no known alias).

Which agent should I document, and in which org?

I need:

  • Agent API name — the DeveloperName of the BotDefinition (e.g. MyAgent, MySalesAgent). Not the label.
  • Org alias — for sf CLI auth (the alias you configured with sf org login)

Optional:

  • Version — an agent_version_api_name like v5. If omitted, I'll resolve the active BotVersion.
  • --force — ignore cached tree; re-fetch everything.
  • --reprobe — re-run the 7-day channel-probe cache (only needed after a Salesforce release).

I'll run the metadata pipeline inline. Artifacts land under ~/.vibe/data/agentforce-architecture-analyze/<org_id15>/<agent_api_name>__<agent_version>/ (overridable with --data-dir).

Pipeline invocation

When the user has supplied --org <alias> + --agent <api_name> (plus any optional flags), run this block. One python3 invocation drives the full pipeline. main.py writes .emit_ctx.json; emit_result.py reads it and prints the final === RESULT === block last to stdout.

set -euo pipefail

# zsh arrays are 1-indexed by default; bash arrays are 0-indexed.
# This block uses 0-indexed semantics throughout (_args[$i] starting at i=0),
# so under zsh + `set -u` the very first read of `_args[0]` would trip
# `parameter not set`. KSH_ARRAYS makes zsh treat arrays as 0-indexed,
# matching the bash shebang's expectation. No-op under bash.
[ -n "${ZSH_VERSION:-}" ] && setopt KSH_ARRAYS

SKILL_ROOT="${SKILL_ROOT:-${PLUGIN_ROOT:-$HOME/.vibe/skills}/agentforce-architecture-analyze}"

# Argument parser. Accepts both `--org foo` and `--org=foo`.
# `$ARGUMENTS` is the raw user input Claude Code substitutes.
ARG_ORG=""
ARG_AGENT=""
ARG_VERSION=""
ARG_FORCE=""
ARG_REPROBE=""
ARG_PARALLELISM=""
ARG_MAX_MERMAID=""

# shellcheck disable=SC2206
_args=($ARGUMENTS)
i=0
while [ $i -lt ${#_args[@]} ]; do
 tok="${_args[$i]}"
 case "$tok" in
 --org=*) ARG_ORG="${tok#--org=}" ;;
 --org) i=$((i+1)); ARG_ORG="${_args[$i]:-}" ;;
 --agent=*) ARG_AGENT="${tok#--agent=}" ;;
 --agent) i=$((i+1)); ARG_AGENT="${_args[$i]:-}" ;;
 --version=*) ARG_VERSION="${tok#--version=}" ;;
 --version) i=$((i+1)); ARG_VERSION="${_args[$i]:-}" ;;
 --parallelism=*) ARG_PARALLELISM="${tok#--parallelism=}" ;;
 --parallelism) i=$((i+1)); ARG_PARALLELISM="${_args[$i]:-}" ;;
 --max-mermaid-nodes=*) ARG_MAX_MERMAID="${tok#--max-mermaid-nodes=}" ;;
 --max-mermaid-nodes) i=$((i+1)); ARG_MAX_MERMAID="${_args[$i]:-}" ;;
 --force) ARG_FORCE="1" ;;
 --reprobe) ARG_REPROBE="1" ;;
 esac
 i=$((i+1))
done

# Usage block if required flags missing. Agent reads stderr,
# prints verbatim, and stops — does NOT pre-run main.py.
if [ -z "$ARG_ORG" ] || [ -z "$ARG_AGENT" ]; then
 cat >&2 <<'USAGE'
> Which agent should I document, and in which org?
>
> I need:
> - **Agent API name** — the BotDefinition.DeveloperName (e.g. `MyAgent`)
> - **Org alias** — for `sf` CLI auth (the alias you configured with `sf org login`)
>
> Optional flags:
> - `--version v5` — pin a specific BotVersion (default: Active+highest)
> - `--force` — bypass cache
> - `--reprobe` — force channel-probe refresh
> - `--parallelism N` — ThreadPoolExecutor size (default 5)
> - `--max-mermaid-nodes N` — cap Mermaid node count (default 80)
USAGE
 exit 2
fi

# Fresh work dir per invocation. Epoch + random suffix avoids collisions
# between concurrent runs on the same host.
WORK_DIR="/tmp/agentforce-architecture-analyze-$(date +%s)-$RANDOM"
mkdir -p "$WORK_DIR"

# Input validation at the boundary, BEFORE any python3 call.
# fs_guard exits 1 and prints an INVALID_INPUT RESULT block on failure;
# `|| exit 1` is mandatory — bare calls silently continue past failures.
python3 "$SKILL_ROOT/scripts/_shared/fs_guard.py" "$ARG_AGENT" agent_api_name api_name || exit 1
python3 "$SKILL_ROOT/scripts/_shared/fs_guard.py" "$ARG_ORG" org_alias not_empty || exit 1
python3 "$SKILL_ROOT/scripts/_shared/fs_guard.py" "$WORK_DIR" WORK_DIR symlink || exit 1
python3 "$SKILL_ROOT/scripts/_shared/fs_guard.py" "$WORK_DIR" WORK_DIR owned || exit 1
if [ -n "$ARG_VERSION" ]; then
 python3 "$SKILL_ROOT/scripts/_shared/fs_guard.py" "$ARG_VERSION" agent_version api_name || exit 1
fi

# Single python3 call drives all pipeline phases. main.py writes
# `.emit_ctx.json` into $WORK_DIR — emit_result.py then renders the
# RESULT block from that ctx. No subprocess-per-phase.
_main_args=(--org-alias "$ARG_ORG" --agent "$ARG_AGENT" --work-dir "$WORK_DIR")
[ -n "$ARG_VERSION" ] && _main_args+=(--version "$ARG_VERSION")
[ -n "$ARG_FORCE" ] && _main_args+=(--force)
[ -n "$ARG_REPROBE" ] && _main_args+=(--reprobe)
[ -n "$ARG_PARALLELISM" ] && _main_args+=(--parallelism "$ARG_PARALLELISM")
[ -n "$ARG_MAX_MERMAID" ] && _main_args+=(--max-mermaid-nodes "$ARG_MAX_MERMAID")

# main.py returns nonzero on terminal failures; we DON'T short-circuit —
# emit_result still publishes the failure RESULT block. `set -e` is
# temporarily relaxed around this single call.
set +e
python3 "$SKILL_ROOT/scripts/main.py" "${_main_args[@]}"
_rc=$?
set -e

# Final RESULT block is emit_result.py's stdout — MUST be the last thing
# stdout sees. emit_result exits 0 on render success; the bash harness
# propagates main.py's rc for the agent's exit status.
WORK_DIR="$WORK_DIR" python3 "$SKILL_ROOT/scripts/emit_result.py"
exit "$_rc"

Inputs

InputFlagRequiredDefault
org_alias--orgyes—
agent_api_name--agentyes—
agent_version_api_name--versionnoactive BotVersion
force_refresh--forcenofalse (honor cache)
reprobe--reprobenofalse (honor 7-day channel-probe cache)
parallelism--parallelismno5
max_mermaid_nodes--max-mermaid-nodesno80
data_dir--data-dirno~/.vibe/data/agentforce-architecture-analyze
cache_dir--cache-dirno~/.vibe/cache/agentforce-architecture-analyze

Outputs

All artifacts under ~/.vibe/data/agentforce-architecture-analyze/<org_id15>/<agent_api_name>__<agent_version>/ (default; override with --data-dir <path>):

<agent>_<ver>_metadata_tree.json   primary artifact — normalized planner/topic/action/flow/apex/prompt/plugin tree
<agent>_<ver>_architecture.md      human-readable section-by-section rendering (H1 + 7 numbered sections, plus a conditional Dependency graph appendix). Mermaid diagrams are embedded inside the relevant sections (Action tree, Data flow, and Dependency graph)

Pipeline — inline, no subagent

resolve_bot.py        → BotDefinition + BotVersion + planner name lookup
retrieve_planner.py   → Metadata API zip retrieve for GenAiPlannerBundle (+ NGA plugins if present)
parallel_retrieve.py  → 6 parallel Tooling SOQL channels fan out from the planner id
                          (resolved by the `planner_definition_by_agent_chain` seed query):
                          - plugins_by_planner (GenAiPluginDefinition)
                          - planner_bundle_functions (GenAiPlannerFunctionDef join)
                          - functions_by_plugins (GenAiFunctionDefinition)
                          - planner_attrs_by_parent_ids (GenAiPlannerAttrDefinition)
                          - plugin_functions_by_plugin_ids (GenAiPluginFunctionDef join)
                          - plugin_instructions_by_plugin_ids (GenAiPluginInstructionDef)
parse_bundle.py       → parse retrieved XML into normalized node shapes
parse_wave.py         → BFS expansion: flow/apex/prompt refs discovered in nodes
                          → SOQL for Flow/Apex bodies (batched by id list)
                          → Metadata retrieve ONLY for GenAiPromptTemplate (+ NGA external plugins conditionally)
finalize.py           → merge waves into metadata_tree.json
render_architecture.py → <agent>_<ver>_architecture.md + Mermaid invocation graph (capped at --max-mermaid-nodes)

Channel strategy — SOQL-first.

  • Tooling SOQL for every normalized tree node (planner, plugins, functions, plugin-functions, plugin-instructions, planner-functions, planner-attrs) — 6 parallel channels keyed on planner id, plus the planner_definition_by_agent_chain seed query that resolves the planner id from the agent chain.
  • Data API SOQL for Flow (by id) and Apex (by id or name) bodies — batched.
  • Metadata retrieve only for two cases: (a) GenAiPromptTemplate (prompt bodies aren't cleanly exposed via Tooling SOQL), and (b) NGA external plugins when the planner is Native Generative Agent shape (skipped for classic ReAct).

This is where the 3–5× speedup comes from. A naive implementation would retrieve everything via Metadata API zips sequentially; parallel Tooling SOQL covers ~80% of the tree in a single fan-out.

Planner shapes — classic ReAct vs NGA

The skill normalizes two planner families into a single tree shape:

ShapeGenAiPlannerDefinition.PlannerTypeInvocationTarget styleNGA plugins?
Classic ReActReactAiPlannerV1 / SequentialPlannerIntentClassifier / etc.DeveloperName stringsno
NGAConcurrentMultiAgentOrchestration / AnthropicCompatibleV1 / etc.Sometimes 15/18-char Ids (ID-prefix routed)yes (external plugins via Metadata retrieve)

The ID-prefix router in resolve_invocation_target.py distinguishes the two: NGA InvocationTargets that look like ids (01p… = ApexClass, 301… = Flow, etc.) get resolved via id-scoped SOQL; DeveloperName targets go through name-scoped SOQL. Unknown prefixes surface as _unresolved[] with reason="unknown-id-prefix:<prefix>" — never silently dropped.

Caching

  • Tree cache: metadata_tree.json is reused unless --force is passed. Cache key includes the asset-hash of every .soql / .yaml / .mmd template bundled with the skill — bump a template, the cache busts automatically.
  • Channel probe cache: 7-day TTL on the per-org sf sobject describe results that validate every field name the SOQL assets reference. A Salesforce quarterly release that renames / removes a field triggers status: PROBE_FAILED; --reprobe forces a refresh.

Prerequisites

ToolRequired
sf CLI (authenticated against the target org)yes — sf org login web --alias <alias>
Python 3.10+yes

Reference docs to load when needed

Do NOT load eagerly. Load when the user's question requires it:

  • references/soql_fields.md — per-sObject field reference for the 13 sObjects this skill touches (2 Data API + 11 Tooling), with [mandatory] vs [optional] tags. Load when the user asks about a specific field, or when debugging an INVALID_FIELD SOQL error.
  • references/contract.json — machine-readable schema for metadata_tree.json. Load when writing downstream tooling that consumes the tree.
  • references/architecture_sections.md — section-by-section structure of the rendered <agent>_<ver>_architecture.md.

Invariants worth knowing upfront

  • Pipeline is deterministic. Same (org, agent, version) + static org metadata → byte-identical <agent>_<ver>_metadata_tree.json and <agent>_<ver>_architecture.md. Only manifest timestamps drift across re-runs.
  • Forward-only traversal. Every discovered ref goes forward from planner → children. No backward lookups.
  • Partial results are surfaced, not silenced. Any unresolved reference lands in _unresolved[] with reason=.... STATUS=PARTIAL_OK if any channel failed; STATUS=OK only on a clean run.
  • Cycle detection is per-branch. Same flow visited along its own ancestor chain emits _cycle_back_to:<path> instead of recursing. A defensive MAX_BFS_DEPTH=20 guard backs the per-branch ancestor set; real-world agents bottom out well before either limit fires. (Earlier docs claimed a hard cap of 5; that was the historical limit and was abandoned because shared utility flows like handleFlowFault tripped it on every nested tree — see config.MAX_BFS_DEPTH for the rationale.)
  • Child ordering is alphabetical by api_name (case-insensitive). Topics come before non-topic plannerActions at the root level. Flow-actionCall order is NOT sorted — that's the flow author's execution sequence.