Maximizing your Development Potential with Agentforce for Developers. Agentforce for Developers is a cutting-edge developer tool powered by AI. It is conveniently available as a Visual Studio Code extension, crafted using CodeGen and xGen-Code, and is a secure, custom AI model from Salesforce.
What is Agentforce for Developers?
Agentforce for Developers is an AI-powered developer tool that’s available as an easy-to-install Visual Studio Code extension. Agentforce for Developer is enabled by default in your Salesforce orgs.
Available in: Developer, Enterprise, Partner Developer, Performance, and Unlimited Editions.
Agentforce for Developers Set Up
1. Prerequisites
Before getting started, make sure you have all the necessary tools.
- Visual Studio Code
- Salesforce Extension for Visual Studio.
Make sure you have Vs Code setup with Salesforce required Extenstion. If not then check our post How to Setup Visual Studio Code for Salesforce.
2. How to get started with Agentforce for Developers.
What you need is to install the Salesforce Extension Pack (Expanded) exception package in your VsCode. Which will install Agentforce for Developers extension for you automatically.
You can also install it from here.
3. Enable Agentforce
Agentforce for Developer is enabled by default in your Salesforce orgs. But you can enable and disable from below screen.
4. Authorize your org.
Once you Authorize your Salesforce org in Vs. Code. Then you can see the agent option in Salesforce.
Feature of Agentforce for Developers
1. Multi-Turn Chat with Agentforce Dev Assistant
You can chat with the Dev Assistant while working on VsCode. Tell them what you need, and get back answers.
2. Inline Code Completions
Use inline autocompletion to receive suggestions as you write Apex and LWC code automatically.
3. Test Case Generation
With the help of Agentforce for Developer, you can generate Apex unit tests for your code. You can use /test command to generate the test method.
4. History Panel
History panel will show all prompt recently created.
5. Explain Code
Use the built-in command /explain to get the code explanation.
6. Write Docs
If you want to generate the code documentation then use /Document command.
Summary
Salesforce rebranded the Einstein for Developer as Agentforce for Developer is now GA. It has lots of cool features which might be useful for you. Yes, responses from promotes are some time not up-to-date, but they will improve over time, and you can use code and modify it based on your client’s need. Let us know what you think about this Agent.
