service-itsm-incident-priority-configure
forcedotcom/sf-skills
Configure Salesforce ITSM Incident Priority Matrix via sf CLI—enable/disable, map Impact×Urgency to Priority, toggle overrides.
What is service-itsm-incident-priority-configure?
Manages the Incident Priority Matrix for Salesforce ITSM, which derives Priority from Impact and Urgency values. Use this skill to view, enable, disable, seed, modify, or remove matrix cells; toggle manual-override preferences; and set default fallback priorities. All operations are idempotent, read-before-write, and require explicit confirmation before mutations.
- View the current Incident Priority Matrix configuration and settings
- Enable or disable the Priority Matrix for Incident records
- Add, modify, or remove individual matrix cells (Impact × Urgency → Priority mappings)
- Seed a complete matrix with predefined configurations
- Toggle the manual-override preference to allow or restrict manual Priority changes
- Read and set the default (fallback) priority for Incidents
How to install service-itsm-incident-priority-configure
npx skills add https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill service-itsm-incident-priority-configure- sf CLI version 2.60.0 or later (verify with `sf --version`)
- Target org authenticated with sf CLI (visible in `sf org list` as Connected)
- Incident Management enabled on the org (Service Cloud ITSM Incident feature)
- User has CustomizeApplication permission (View Setup + Setup Admin)
How to use service-itsm-incident-priority-configure
- 1.Verify the target org is authenticated: `sf org list` should show it as Connected
- 2.Confirm Incident Management is enabled on the org; if not, enable it first via service-itsm-incident-mgmt-configure
- 3.Run the skill and specify the operation: view, enable/disable, add/modify/remove cells, seed matrix, toggle override, or set default priority
- 4.For add/modify operations, provide Impact and Urgency coordinates and the target Priority value
- 5.For set-default-priority, specify the Priority value or select from the active picklist options
- 6.Review the read-before-write summary and confirm the proposed changes
- 7.The skill applies the mutation (if confirmed) and marks the Salesforce Go step as complete
Use cases
- Set up a new Incident Priority Matrix by seeding all Impact/Urgency combinations with appropriate Priority values
- Adjust specific matrix cells when business rules for incident prioritization change
- Enable or disable the matrix to control whether Incident Priority is automatically derived or manually set
- Change the default fallback priority when no matrix cell matches an Incident's Impact/Urgency combination
- Allow or restrict users from manually overriding the matrix-derived Priority value
- Salesforce ITSM administrators configuring incident management workflows
- Service Cloud setup owners managing incident priority policies
- Organizations implementing or refining incident triage and escalation rules
service-itsm-incident-priority-configure FAQ
It is a grid that automatically derives an Incident's Priority from its Impact and Urgency values. Each cell maps a specific Impact/Urgency combination to a Priority outcome.
No. This skill is for Incident records only. Problem and ChangeRequest matrices are out of scope; stop and inform the user if they ask about those.
When disabled, the matrix no longer automatically derives Priority from Impact/Urgency. Priority becomes a manual field or falls back to the default priority value.
Only if the manual-override preference is enabled. Use this skill to toggle that setting on or off.
The default (fallback) priority is used. You can read and set this value via this skill.
Full instructions (SKILL.md)
Source of truth, from forcedotcom/sf-skills.
name: service-itsm-incident-priority-configure description: "Configures the Incident Priority Matrix for Salesforce ITSM through the sf CLI — enabling or disabling the matrix, shaping the Impact x Urgency grid that derives Priority on Incident records, toggling the manual-override preference, and reading or setting the default fallback priority. Reads every value before writing, is idempotent, and requires explicit user confirmation before any mutation. Use when the user wants to view, enable, disable, set up, seed, add to, change, or remove priority matrix configuration for Incident records, change the default incident priority, or asks about incident priority setup, impact/urgency mapping, override, or the ITSM incident priority matrix. DO NOT TRIGGER for Problem or ChangeRequest priority matrices, Case priority fields, standard Priority picklists outside ITSM, SLA or milestone configuration, or enabling Incident Management itself (use the service-itsm-incident-mgmt-configure skill)." metadata: version: "1.4" relatedSkills: - "service-itsm-incident-mgmt-configure" domains: ["Service"] minApiVersion: "67.0" cliTools: - tool: ["sf"] semver: ">=2.60.0" accessCheck: - type: "userPerm" value: "CustomizeApplication" allowed-tools: | Read AskUserQuestion Bash
Configuring the Incident Priority Matrix (sf CLI)
Configures the Incident Priority Matrix for Salesforce ITSM — the grid that derives an Incident's Priority from its Impact and Urgency. Covers viewing the matrix, enabling / disabling it, adding / changing / removing / seeding cells, toggling the manual-override preference, and reading / setting the default (fallback) priority.
Every read and write dispatches through the sf CLI, so this skill works on any org with the Incident Management license enabled.
Writes are idempotent (skipped when the current state already matches the target), the skill always reads before it writes, and an explicit confirm-to-write checkpoint is required before any mutation.
Scope
- In scope (Incident only): view the matrix; enable / disable it; add, change, remove, or seed matrix cells; toggle manual override; read / set the default (fallback) priority.
- Out of scope:
ProblemandChangeRequestmatrices; non-ITSM Priority pickers; SLA / milestone / entitlement setup; enabling Incident Management itself. If the user asks aboutProblemorChangeRequest, stop and say so.
Preconditions
sfCLI ≥ 2.60 (verify withsf --version).- The target org is authenticated with
sf— one ofsf org listshould show it asConnected. - Incident Management is enabled on the org — the master pref for the Service Cloud ITSM
Incident feature (Setup Discovery
apiName = service-cloud-itsm-incident). Read directly at preflight time viaGET /services/data/v67.0/connect/setup/discovery/featuresand filter toapiName == "service-cloud-itsm-incident"(the setup-org-preferences endpoint for the master is not exposed on this surface —IncidentMgmtEnabled/ITSMIncidentMgmtEnabledboth 404). Ifstatus != "ENABLED", delegate toservice-itsm-incident-mgmt-configureinline to enable it (that skill runs its own read-before-write + confirm-to-write against the same route), then resume Phase 1. - The calling user has
CustomizeApplication(View Setup + Setup Admin).
If any precondition is unmet, the CLI surfaces the raw error verbatim — do not fabricate state, surface the raw error and stop.
Routes at a glance
Every route is called through the sf CLI. Full method / path / body / response
details, the picklist extraction recipe, and gotchas live in references/sf-cli-invocation.md.
| Concern | Transport | HTTP status |
|---|---|---|
| Master Incident Mgmt pref (read) | sf api request rest GET on /services/data/v67.0/connect/setup/discovery/features, filter apiName == "service-cloud-itsm-incident" for status | 200 |
| Matrix enable flag (read/write) | sf api request rest on /services/data/v67.0/setup/org/preferences/IncPriorityMatrixEnabled | 200 |
| Manual override (read/write) | sf api request rest on /services/data/v67.0/setup/org/preferences/IncPriorityOverrideEnabled | 200 |
| Matrix rows (read) | sf data query --use-tooling-api on ServiceOpPriorityConfig | 200 |
| Matrix rows (add) | sf api request rest POST on /services/data/v67.0/tooling/sobjects/ServiceOpPriorityConfig | 201 |
| Matrix rows (change) | sf api request rest PATCH on /services/data/v67.0/tooling/sobjects/ServiceOpPriorityConfig/<Id> | 204 |
| Matrix rows (remove) | sf data delete record --use-tooling-api on ServiceOpPriorityConfig | 200 |
| Default fallback priority (read) | sf api request rest GET on /services/data/v67.0/tooling/query/?q=...StandardValueSet... | 200 |
| Default fallback priority (write) | sf project retrieve start + edit + sf project deploy start on StandardValueSet:IncidentPriority | deploy Succeeded |
| Picklist values (Incident) | sf api request rest GET on /services/data/v67.0/sobjects/Incident/describe | 200 |
| Salesforce Go step "Done" (write, after a mutation) | sf api request rest PUT on /services/data/v67.0/connect/setup/discovery/feature/service-cloud-itsm-incident/configuration/step/definePriorityMatrix/progress | 200 |
Path prefixes are load-bearing — do NOT strip them. Setup Connect API paths MUST start with
/services/data/v67.0/. Tooling REST paths MUST start with /services/data/v67.0/tooling/.
Clarifying Questions
Ask only what you cannot infer:
- Which org?
sfCLI alias or username (--target-org <alias>). Default: the org's default target. - What operation? View; enable / disable the matrix; toggle manual override; set the default priority; add / change / remove a cell; seed a full matrix.
- For add / change: the
Impact+Urgencycoordinates and the resultingPriority(validated against the fetched picklist values). - For set-default-priority: the target Priority value. If the user did not name one, dispatch
AskUserQuestionwith the org's activeIncident.Prioritypicklist values as options — never guess.
Workflow
All steps are sequential. Always read before you write. All calls go through sf CLI.
Phase 0 — Reuse what the session already knows
Each Phase 1 / Phase 2 read below carries a skip-if-already-known clause. Before
calling any sf command, check whether an earlier turn in this session already produced
the same fact from a successful sf invocation tied to the current --target-org
(a prior run of this skill, or an earlier sf call in the same conversation). Session
context here is per --target-org <alias>, so a different alias is a different session.
An explicit user statement is NOT cache-eligible — the picklist values, pref
booleans, matrix rows, and fallback priority all drive client-side validation and
duplicate prevention on Phase-4 mutations, so a mistaken or stale user assertion can
bypass those safeguards and create invalid or duplicate rows. When the only source is
a user statement (or you cannot identify a specific prior sf response), re-read.
sf --version— if the CLI version was already reported this session, skip step 1.- Incident
describe(activeImpact/Urgency/Prioritypicklists) — if the Incident describe was already read for the current--target-orgthis session and the three picklists are in context, skip step 2 and reuse them. IncPriorityMatrixEnabled/IncPriorityOverrideEnabledpref values — if either was already read this session AND has not been PATCHed since, skip its Phase-2 read.ServiceOpPriorityConfigrows — if the current-org Incident rows were already read this session AND noPOST/PATCH/deleteonServiceOpPriorityConfighas been dispatched since, skip step 5 and reuse the row list.StandardValueSet:IncidentPrioritydefault — if the fallback priority was already read this session AND noStandardValueSet:IncidentPrioritydeploy has run since, skip step 6.
When in doubt, re-check. Skip only when the fact is unambiguously in context, the
--target-org alias is unchanged, and no Phase-4 write since (a pref PATCH, a
ServiceOpPriorityConfig POST/PATCH/delete, or a StandardValueSet:IncidentPriority
deploy) could have invalidated it. A wrong skip on a live org is worse than a re-read.
Phase 1 — Preflight
- (Skip if
sf --versionwas already reported this session — see Phase 0.)sf --versionto confirm the CLI is available. - Master Incident Management pref — direct read (Skip only if the master pref was
already read this session for the current
--target-orgAND the value wasENABLEDAND no write elsewhere in this session could have flipped it — see Phase 0.)sf api request rest "/services/data/v67.0/connect/setup/discovery/features" --method GET --target-org <alias>. Parse the response and filter thefeatures[]array to the element whereapiName == "service-cloud-itsm-incident"; read itsstatusfield. Ifstatus == "ENABLED", proceed to step 3. Ifstatus != "ENABLED", delegate toservice-itsm-incident-mgmt-configureinline to enable the master pref (that skill runs its own confirm-to-write against the same route), then re-read this step to verifystatus == "ENABLED"before continuing. If the delegation is declined by the user, halt — Priority Matrix cannot function while the master is off. This is a direct read of the master pref, not a proxy — the Incident describe check that follows is a secondary sanity check, not the master-state signal. - (Skip if the Incident describe for the current
--target-org— including activeImpact/Urgency/Prioritypicklists — is already in context this session — see Phase 0.)sf api request rest "/services/data/v67.0/sobjects/Incident/describe" --method GET --target-org <alias>. A 200 withImpact/Urgency/Prioritypicklist fields is a secondary sanity check. Extract active picklist values for later validation. If the describe response is large, dispatch a subagent (haiku tier) to extract just the three picklists.
Phase 2 — Show current state (read-only)
Dispatch these reads (all expected to return 200):
- (Skip if
IncPriorityMatrixEnabledfor the current--target-orgwas already read this session AND has not been PATCHed since — see Phase 0.)sf api request rest "/services/data/v67.0/setup/org/preferences/IncPriorityMatrixEnabled" --method GET --target-org <alias>— matrix enable flag. Body:{"isPreferenceEnabled": <bool>}. - (Skip if
IncPriorityOverrideEnabledfor the current--target-orgwas already read this session AND has not been PATCHed since — see Phase 0.)sf api request rest "/services/data/v67.0/setup/org/preferences/IncPriorityOverrideEnabled" --method GET --target-org <alias>— manual-override flag. Same body shape. - (Skip if the Incident
ServiceOpPriorityConfigrows for the current--target-orgwere already read this session AND no POST / PATCH / delete on this SObject has been dispatched since — see Phase 0.) Matrix rows —sf data query --use-tooling-api --target-org <alias> --query "SELECT Id, DeveloperName, ReferenceObject, Urgency, Impact, Priority FROM ServiceOpPriorityConfig WHERE ReferenceObject = 'Incident'". Returns zero or more rows.DeveloperNameis required so the add step can derive a fresh unique suffix. - (Skip if the
StandardValueSet:IncidentPrioritydefault was already read this session AND noStandardValueSet:IncidentPrioritydeploy has run since — see Phase 0.) Default fallback priority —sf api request rest "/services/data/v67.0/tooling/query/?q=SELECT+Id,MasterLabel,Metadata+FROM+StandardValueSet+WHERE+MasterLabel='IncidentPriority'" --method GET --target-org <alias>. Readrecords[0].Metadata.standardValue, find the entry withdefault: true, take itsvalueName— that is the fallback priority.
Format the rows as an Impact × Urgency grid (see examples/render-matrix.md). Steps 3–6 together are the "view" operation and the before-snapshot.
Duplicate-coordinate detection (load-bearing for Change / Remove): group the Phase-2 rows by (ReferenceObject, Urgency, Impact). If any group has more than one row, the matrix already contains duplicates (the server does not enforce uniqueness). For every operation whose target coordinate is duplicated, halt Phase 3 for that concern — do NOT ask the user to confirm a Change or Remove until they either name an explicit Id or approve a consolidation plan (see Phase 4 → Change a cell and Phase 4 → Remove a cell). Add is unaffected — the Phase-4 add path already refuses any coordinate already present in the snapshot.
Phase 3 — Confirm target (AskUserQuestion, REQUIRED before any write)
Present the intended change as (Concern: <before> → <after>) and require an explicit "yes" via AskUserQuestion. Proceed to Phase 4 only on explicit "yes". On "no", stop and report the current state without writing.
Phase 4 — Apply the change (skip for view-only)
Read the current value of the same concern first (Phase 2 covers this), confirm the target with the user (Phase 3), then dispatch. Payload shapes and full CLI invocations for every operation live in examples/matrix-operations.md.
- Enable / disable the matrix —
sf api request restPATCH onIncPriorityMatrixEnabledwith body{"desiredState": <bool>}. PATCH response echoes{"isPreferenceEnabled": <bool>}; no separate re-read needed. - Toggle manual override —
sf api request restPATCH onIncPriorityOverrideEnabledwith body{"desiredState": <bool>}. Does not touch matrix rows or the default priority. - Add a cell —
sf api request restPOST on/services/data/v67.0/tooling/sobjects/ServiceOpPriorityConfigwith body{"ReferenceObject": "Incident", "Urgency": "<val>", "Impact": "<val>", "Priority": "<val>", "DeveloperName": "<unique>", "MasterLabel": "<same>"}. Payload must haveReferenceObject == "Incident"— the SObject is shared with Problem / ChangeRequest and the server accepts any string. Validate everyUrgency/Impact/Priorityagainst the fetched picklists first — the Tooling endpoint does NOT enforce picklist validation. Deduplicate against the Phase-2 snapshot: the server does NOT reject duplicates on(ReferenceObject, Urgency, Impact), so a second POST on the same coordinate silently persists as a second row and the runtime picks between them non-deterministically. - Change a cell — read Phase-2 rows, find the row(s) matching
(ReferenceObject=Incident, Urgency, Impact). If exactly one row matches,sf api request restPATCH on/services/data/v67.0/tooling/sobjects/ServiceOpPriorityConfig/<Id>with body{"Priority": "<new val>"}. If zero rows match, this is an add — not a change; surface and ask. If more than one row matches (duplicates were detected in Phase 2), do NOT dispatch — report the duplicate rows with theirId/DeveloperName/ currentPriority, and require the user to either name the exactIdto change or approve a consolidation plan (delete the extras, then change the survivor). - Remove a cell — read Phase-2 rows, find the row(s) matching
(ReferenceObject=Incident, Urgency, Impact). If exactly one row matches,sf data delete record --sobject ServiceOpPriorityConfig --record-id <Id> --use-tooling-api --target-org <alias>. If zero rows match, short-circuit with "nothing to remove". If more than one row matches, do NOT dispatch — report the duplicates and require the user to either name the exactId(s) to remove or explicitly confirm "remove all rows at this coordinate". - Seed a full matrix — see
examples/seed-full-matrix.md. Validate values first, then POST each row. - Set the default fallback priority —
sf project retrieve start --metadata "StandardValueSet:IncidentPriority" --target-org <alias>, edit the file to set<default>true</default>on the target value and<default>false</default>on every other, thensf project deploy start --metadata "StandardValueSet:IncidentPriority" --target-org <alias> --wait 10. Verify withSucceededin the deploy result.
Phase 5 — Verify and present
- Re-read the concern that was mutated (matrix rows via Tooling SOQL; default priority via
StandardValueSetquery; prefs are echoed on PATCH response). If the observed state does not match the requested state, treat it as a failed write and report the raw server response verbatim. - Mark the Salesforce Go step Done — only if a Phase-4 functional write actually landed. The "Define Priority Matrix" step is user-override: its checkmark is not derived from org state, so configuring the matrix alone never flips it — completion must be written. After step 7 verifies the write, PUT the completion once (
references/sf-cli-invocation.mdroute 10; body{"isComplete": true}, flag REQUIRED). It rides on the Phase-3 confirmation — no separateAskUserQuestion. Skip entirely on view-only reads and idempotent no-ops. - Present before/after (Impact × Urgency grid via
examples/render-matrix.md) plus a one-line summary (e.g.Incident matrix: High/High → Critical added). Matrix changes affect only Incidents created after the write; disabling the matrix does not clear stored rows or the default priority.
Rules / Constraints
| Constraint | Rationale |
|---|---|
All operations run through sf CLI | Works on any org with Incident Management enabled; requires no additional setup |
| Always API v67.0 minimum | The Setup Connect API pref routes require v67+ |
| Read live state before writing | The Phase-2 snapshot is the source of truth for the confirmation prompt, the idempotency check, and the Phase-5 verify |
| REQUIRED confirm-to-write checkpoint before any mutation | Toggling prefs or changing matrix rows mutates org state; user must approve the exact plan |
| Idempotent — skip the write when the current state already matches the requested state | Avoids no-op writes; see references/sf-cli-invocation.md for the exact match rule per concern |
Validate every Impact, Urgency, Priority against the org's live picklist before dispatch | The Tooling REST endpoint does NOT enforce picklist validation; the runtime matrix evaluator does. Skipping this validation lets garbage rows into the matrix |
| Deduplicate rows client-side against the Phase-2 snapshot before add | The server does NOT enforce (ReferenceObject, Urgency, Impact) uniqueness — a second POST on the same coordinate persists as a separate row. Client-side dedup is the only guard against duplicate cells. |
Refuse any ReferenceObject other than Incident (Problem, ChangeRequest, anything else) | ServiceOpPriorityConfig is shared with the Problem / ChangeRequest matrices at the wire level — the server accepts any ReferenceObject string. Scope to Incident is skill-enforced only. |
On Change / Remove, if the target coordinate resolves to more than one row, do NOT dispatch — require an explicit Id or a confirmed consolidation plan | The server allows duplicate (ReferenceObject, Urgency, Impact) rows. Picking "the row Id" arbitrarily would mutate one duplicate and leave the other in place, keeping the matrix non-deterministic. |
| Report exact error text from the CLI response | The CLI surfaces the underlying error message verbatim |
| After a functional write, PUT the Salesforce Go step-progress completion (route 10); skip on view / no-op | The "Define Priority Matrix" step is user-override — its checkmark isn't derived from org state, so config writes alone leave the Go checklist stuck |
Verification Checklist
Before reporting completion of any mutation, confirm each of the following. If any item is unchecked, do not report success — surface what is missing.
- Phase 1 preflight (
sf api request reston Incident describe) returned 200 with activeImpact/Urgency/Prioritypicklists; if 404, the raw error was surfaced and the run halted. - Phase 2 read against every concern the write plans to touch returned 200 (or a raw error was surfaced) and each observed value was recorded as the "before" state. For Change / Remove, the Phase-2 rows were grouped by
(ReferenceObject, Urgency, Impact)and any duplicate coordinates on the mutation target were surfaced to the user — no Change / Remove was dispatched until an explicitIdor a confirmed consolidation plan resolved the duplication. - Phase 3 confirm-to-write presented
(<concern>: <current> → <requested>)viaAskUserQuestionand the user replied with an explicit "yes" — no write dispatched on any other response (silence, "maybe", "looks good", implicit approval). - Idempotency: if the current state already matched the requested state, Phase 4 was skipped for that concern and reported as an idempotent no-op — no write was dispatched.
- Every
Impact,Urgency,Priorityin any add / change payload was validated against the Phase-1 picklist values before dispatch. Duplicates on(ReferenceObject, Urgency, Impact)were caught client-side against the Phase-2 snapshot — the server does NOT reject duplicates. Every add payload hadReferenceObject == "Incident". - Phase 4 writes used the exact CLI invocations from
references/sf-cli-invocation.md; on any4xx/5xx(or non-Succeededdeploy), the raw response was surfaced and the run halted. - Phase 5 verify re-read the affected concerns; any diff was reported as
write FAILED — server state differs from requestwith the raw response. - If a Phase-4 functional write landed, the Go step-progress completion PUT (route 10) was sent after verify. On view-only reads and idempotent no-ops, no completion PUT was dispatched.
- The final report gave a before/after with the Impact × Urgency grid and a one-line summary.
Reference File Index
| File | When to read |
|---|---|
references/sf-cli-invocation.md | Exact sf CLI invocations, response envelopes, picklist extraction, idempotency rules, and gotchas |
examples/render-matrix.md | Impact × Urgency grid layout |
examples/matrix-operations.md | Full CLI-invocation templates for enable, override, default, add / change / remove |
examples/seed-full-matrix.md | Seed a full matrix (validate picklist values first) |
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