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Salesforce Webhooks Events
by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace
Select and govern Salesforce change delivery across Pub/Sub API, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, event relay, Streaming API, Outbound Messages, or polling.
Install Salesforce Webhooks Events
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill salesforce-webhooks-events -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace salesforce-webhooks-events --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events .claude/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "salesforce-webhooks-events" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events into .claude/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salesforce-webhooks-events", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-eventsType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill salesforce-webhooks-events -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace salesforce-webhooks-events --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events .agents/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "salesforce-webhooks-events" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events into .agents/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salesforce-webhooks-events", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill salesforce-webhooks-events -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace salesforce-webhooks-events --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events .cursor/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "salesforce-webhooks-events" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events into .cursor/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salesforce-webhooks-events", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git --path skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill salesforce-webhooks-events -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace salesforce-webhooks-events --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events .gemini/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "salesforce-webhooks-events" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events into .gemini/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salesforce-webhooks-events", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace salesforce-webhooks-eventsInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill salesforce-webhooks-events -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events .github/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "salesforce-webhooks-events" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events into .github/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salesforce-webhooks-events", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill salesforce-webhooks-events -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace salesforce-webhooks-events --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events .opencode/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "salesforce-webhooks-events" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events into .opencode/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salesforce-webhooks-events", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
salesforce-webhooks-events- GitHub stars
- 2.8k
- Token cost
- ~1.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 437 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 3,342
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Select and govern Salesforce change delivery across Pub/Sub API, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, event relay, Streaming API, Outbound Messages, or polling.
- Works in 7 steps: Define business semantics, source of… → Discover the org edition, enabled event… → Compare Pub/Sub API, CDC, custom… → …
- Building event-driven integrations
- SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Tool Discipline and Current Contract, plus 8 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Salesforce Webhooks Events is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Select and govern Salesforce change delivery across Pub/Sub API, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, event relay, Streaming API, Outbound Messages, or polling. Use when building event-driven integrations. Trigger with "design Salesforce events".
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts. Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code; event enablement, publication, subscription, relay, and replay changes require Salesforce admin and data owner approval
It sits in Backend & APIs, covering CRM management, Event-driven systems and Webhooks. It works with Salesforce. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Building event-driven integrations
- With design Salesforce events
Example prompts
- “design Salesforce events”
- “/salesforce-webhooks-events”
Requirements
- Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; event enablement, publication, subscription, relay, and replay changes require Salesforce admin and data owner approval
- Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit
Workflow steps
7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Define business semantics, source of truth, producer authority, consumers, payload minimum, ordering key, latency, and loss tolerance.
- Discover the org edition, enabled event products, Pub/Sub or alternative availability, channels, permissions, schemas, and allocations.
- Compare Pub/Sub API, CDC, custom Platform Events, event relay, Streaming API, Outbound Messages, and bounded polling against requirements.
- Design idempotency, schema compatibility, checkpoint or replay handling, flow control, reconnect, dead letter, and poison-event isolation.
- Model duplicate, delayed, out-of-order, gap, overflow, schema-change, permission-loss, quota, and consumer-outage cases.
- Run a synthetic non-production publication or change canary and prove delivery, recovery, redaction, and no duplicate business effect.
- Enable production in a bounded cohort, monitor delivery and business reconciliation, and maintain a documented backfill path.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
ReadGlobGrepWebFetchWriteEdit
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
developer.salesforce.com
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Compatibility
Designed for Claude Code; event enablement, publication, subscription, relay, and replay changes require Salesforce admin and data owner approval
From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Context cost
Salesforce Webhooks Events loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 437 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 437 words, ~1,125 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- salesforce-webhooks-events
- description
- Select and govern Salesforce change delivery across Pub/Sub API, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, event relay, Streaming API, Outbound Messages, or polling. Use when building event-driven integrations. Trigger with "design Salesforce events".
- allowed-tools
- Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit
- compatibility
- Designed for Claude Code; event enablement, publication, subscription, relay, and replay changes require Salesforce admin and data owner approval
- argument-hint
- [org-alias] [business-change]
- version
- 1.8.0
- author
- Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
- license
- MIT
- tags
- saas, salesforce, pub-sub-api, change-data-capture, events
- model
- inherit
- effort
- high
Salesforce Event and Change-Delivery Decision
Overview
Choose the supported delivery contract from business semantics, entitlement, transport, ordering, replay, schema, security, and recovery evidence.
Prerequisites
- Business event or record-change definition, producer, consumers, latency, ordering, volume, and recovery objective
- Current org edition, event entitlements, permissions, channels, schema, delivery allocation, and support contract
- Consumer idempotency, checkpoint or replay state, dead-letter path, reconciliation, and backfill owner
Tool Discipline
Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect approved repository and evidence files, WebFetch to re-check current first-party Salesforce documentation, and Write or Edit only for secretless plans, fixtures, configuration, and redacted receipts.
Current Contract
Pub/Sub API uses gRPC over HTTP/2 and Avro for platform events, Change Data Capture, and real-time event monitoring. CDC publishes near-real-time record changes and can emit gap or overflow events; other Salesforce delivery mechanisms have different contracts.
Authentication
Use the documented OAuth and permission model for the selected producer and consumer. Protect tokens, event payloads, replay or checkpoint state, schemas, org identifiers, and personal data.
Instructions
- Define business semantics, source of truth, producer authority, consumers, payload minimum, ordering key, latency, and loss tolerance.
- Discover the org edition, enabled event products, Pub/Sub or alternative availability, channels, permissions, schemas, and allocations.
- Compare Pub/Sub API, CDC, custom Platform Events, event relay, Streaming API, Outbound Messages, and bounded polling against requirements.
- Design idempotency, schema compatibility, checkpoint or replay handling, flow control, reconnect, dead letter, and poison-event isolation.
- Model duplicate, delayed, out-of-order, gap, overflow, schema-change, permission-loss, quota, and consumer-outage cases.
- Run a synthetic non-production publication or change canary and prove delivery, recovery, redaction, and no duplicate business effect.
- Enable production in a bounded cohort, monitor delivery and business reconciliation, and maintain a documented backfill path.
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Approval Boundaries
Do not enable entities, create channels, publish events, expose fields, reset checkpoints, replay, or backfill without platform, data, security, and consumer-owner approval.
Output
Return the delivery decision, entitlement evidence, schema and permission contract, capacity plan, recovery design, canary receipt, reconciliation, and owners.
Error Handling
| Condition | Response |
|---|---|
| Gap or overflow event is observed | Pause trust in the stream, bound the affected interval, and run the approved reconciliation or backfill path. |
| Consumer checkpoint is lost | Do not guess; restore from durable state or reconcile from the source of truth. |
| Selected API is unavailable in the org | Choose a documented alternative and revise latency and recovery expectations. |
Example
A redacted completion receipt might look like this:
mode=pub-sub-cdc; channel=approved; schema=versioned; checkpoint=durable; canary=pass; duplicates=0; reconcile=passResources
Next Steps
Run the workflow first in the lowest-risk authorized org and preserve its redacted receipt. Schedule a review against the next Salesforce seasonal release and the customer change calendar.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287
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Questions about Salesforce Webhooks Events
What does Salesforce Webhooks Events do?
Select and govern Salesforce change delivery across Pub/Sub API, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, event relay, Streaming API, Outbound Messages, or polling. Salesforce Webhooks Events is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Select and govern Salesforce change delivery across Pub/Sub API, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, event relay, Streaming API, Outbound Messages, or polling.
When should I use Salesforce Webhooks Events?
Salesforce Webhooks Events fits situations like: building event-driven integrations; with design Salesforce events.
How do I install Salesforce Webhooks Events in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill salesforce-webhooks-events -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Salesforce Webhooks Events in Codex?
Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill salesforce-webhooks-events -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/salesforce-webhooks-events in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Salesforce Webhooks Events in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill salesforce-webhooks-events -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events, .gemini/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events, .github/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events and .opencode/skills/salesforce-webhooks-events in your project.
What does Salesforce Webhooks Events need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Salesforce Webhooks Events is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; event enablement, publication, subscription, relay, and replay changes require Salesforce admin and data owner approval.
Does Salesforce Webhooks Events access the network?
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: developer.salesforce.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Salesforce Webhooks Events safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Salesforce Webhooks Events use?
Salesforce Webhooks Events is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Salesforce Webhooks Events use?
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Salesforce Webhooks Events?
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Who maintains Salesforce Webhooks Events?
jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.
Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.