A concise, practical guide to register, activate, and configure an Agentforce Developer Edition org so you can start building AI agents on Salesforce quickly and safely.
If you’re getting started with Agentforce — Salesforce’s platform for building autonomous AI agents — the Developer Edition (DE) org is your sandbox to experiment without touching production. This post walks through signing up, activating, and configuring a DE org with recommended settings and developer-focused best practices.
What is Agentforce?
Agentforce enables organizations to create autonomous AI agents that augment human work across service, sales, marketing, and commerce. It typically ships with sample metadata, Lightning components, AI flow templates, and Apex scaffolding to help you get started faster.
Step-by-step: Sign up and activate your Agentforce DE Org
- Visit the signup page — Go to Salesforce Developer Edition signup. (URL may change; check Salesforce Developer site if the link is outdated.)
- Fill the registration form — Provide first name, last name, a valid email you can access, role, company (can be “Self”), country, and a unique username in email format (e.g., [email protected]).
- Activate — Check your email for Salesforce confirmation, click the activation link, and set your password.
First-time setup after login
- Set language & time zone: Setup > My Settings > Language & Time Zone.
- Enable Dev Hub (if you plan to use Salesforce DX): Setup > Quick Find: “Dev Hub” > Enable.
- Explore preloaded assets: Agentforce DE often includes sample LLM agent metadata, custom Lightning components, AI flow templates, and special Apex classes/datasets — review and import what you need.
Recommended developer and admin best practices
- Use a dedicated DE for experimentation — never run tests against production data.
- Enable and review debug logs while developing agents to track API calls and Apex behavior.
- Install Git-based source control and practice CI/CD (Salesforce CLI + GitHub Actions or similar) to manage metadata changes.
- Restrict access with permission sets for agent-related Apex classes and custom objects during testing.
- Document and version sample prompts, model settings, and integration keys securely (don’t store secrets in code).
Agentforce accelerates building AI-powered assistants on Salesforce, but good setup and governance are essential. By using a DE org with the recommended settings above, admins and developers can iterate quickly, validate behaviors, and safeguard production environments.
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