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Deploy agents your team can stand behind

Salesforce Agentforce deployments fail in ways that are hard to predict and painful to explain. º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø surfaces issues before you deploy — not after.

Behind every AI agent is a web of metadata – and every piece has to land perfectly

Planners, topics, actions, prompt templates — each with dependencies on Apex, Flows, and custom objects. Miss one or deploy in the wrong order, and the whole thing fails. º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø treats Agentforce as what it is: Salesforce metadata. The same secure deployment process your team already relies on, extended to cover everything agents need.

Get your agents to production faster without the guesswork

º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø gives you complete visibility over what you're deploying, before a single change moves.

Find everything you need in one place

A dedicated filter retrieves all Agentforce metadata — plus the Apex and Flows they depend on.

See exactly what's changing

º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø's visual diff presents each component clearly, so you can review every change before it goes near production.

Nothing left behind

A single missing component or incomplete Data 360 configuration can bring an entire deployment down. º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø makes sure neither happens.

  • Catch missing dependencies before you deploy: º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø flags what's missing and lets you fix it in one click before validation.
  • Activate agents automatically: switched on out of the box after deployment — no manual steps, no scripts to maintain.
  • Deploy Agentforce and Data 360 in one workflow: no tool-switching, no multi-step complexity.

º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø’s expertise helps showcase our expertise, and makes deploying Agentforce smooth and stress-free. I appreciate having º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø as a trusted partner.

Melissa Hill Dees

Salesforce MVP

Know your agents are ready before the world does

Agents that fail in front of customers are worse than no agent at all. º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø makes sure yours are tested, handled, and ready before they ever go live.

  • Test conversations, not just commands: Agentforce Testing Center results surface directly in º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø — review evaluation outputs and deploy without switching tools.
  • Deploy and run tests together: ship test suites alongside your agents and set them to run automatically — so nothing reaches a new environment untested.
  • Decode errors fast with dedicated docs: when Salesforce surfaces a validation error, º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø pairs it with clear explanations so your team can self-serve a fix instantly.

Agentforce, with DevOps done right

Agents evolve constantly and as more developers touch Agentforce, the risk of something going wrong in production grows. º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø gives every release the process it deserves — repeatable, reviewable, and built to the standards your team already works to.

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Agentforce FAQs

Which Agentforce metadata types does º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø support?

º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø supports all key Agentforce metadata types, including GenAiPlannerBundle (agents), GenAiPlugin (topics), GenAiFunction (agent actions), GenAiPromptTemplate (prompt templates), and AiEvaluationDefinition (testing centre suites). º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø also supports Agent Scripts (AiAuthoringBundle), available from API version 65. 

Note: the SDR Agent and Sales Coach Agent must currently be configured manually in each environment as they are not supported via the Metadata API.

How does º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø support Agent Script?

When you compare environments, º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø visualises your Agent Script in a clear table view, with each component organised into sub-sections so you can quickly see how the agent is put together — even if someone else built it.

Agent Script is also a versioned metadata type. Rather than seeing every version as a separate row in your comparison, º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø groups them into a single row with the active version selected by default. You can switch between versions using a dropdown selector and choose exactly which one you want to deploy. And as with every other metadata type in º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø, dependencies are surfaced and handled as part of your deployment, so nothing gets left behind when your Agent script moves between environments. For a full walkthrough, see How to deploy Salesforce Agent Script metadata.

How does º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø handle Agentforce metadata dependencies automatically?

º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø gives you two layers of dependency handling. Firstly, you can drill into any Agentforce component to see its full dependency tree — every Prompt Template, Flow, Apex class, Topic, and Action it relies on. Then before deployment, º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø’s Problem Analyser inspects your package and flags anything missing across both planner bundles and agent scripts, so nothing gets left behind.

º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø also catches the subtler issues that cause silent failures: Prompt Templates referencing deprecated LLMs are flagged with a recommended alternative, org-specific retriever IDs are detected and swapped for the correct version in the target environment, and if a deployment would overwrite an already-committed agent script, º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø flags it and offers to deploy it as a new draft instead.

Our documentation maps known error messages to their root causes so teams can fix problems quickly.

How does º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø help me resolve Agentforce validation errors?

º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø’s Problem Analyser catches the most common issues before validation runs, flagging missing dependencies so you can fix them in one click rather than discovering them mid-deployment.

That matters because Salesforce’s own Agentforce validation errors are often vague and don’t tell you which specific dependency is missing. Common causes include missing GenAiFunction or GenAiPlugin components in the target org, supporting metadata (like Apex classes or custom objects) not yet deployed, or Retrievers that don’t yet exist in the target environment. That last one catches many teams off guard. If your agent references a Retriever that hasn’t been deployed, validation will fail.

º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø also makes it straightforward to deploy individual Retrievers via Direct Deploy, resolving this before it becomes a blocker. And for any errors that do slip through, our documentation maps validation messages to their root causes so your team can self-serve a fix quickly.

Can I deploy Agentforce from sandbox to production using º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø?

Yes. º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø supports Agentforce deployments between any two Salesforce environments — sandbox to sandbox, sandbox to production, or production to sandbox — using the same comparison and deployment workflow you’d use for any other metadata.

For teams ready to automate, Agentforce metadata can also be included in º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø’s CI/CD pipelines, promoting agent changes through development, staging, and production with consistency. This matters more for agents than for most Salesforce changes. Because agents interact with customers directly and in real time, anything that hasn’t been properly validated, tested, and reviewed can have an immediate and visible impact. A structured promotion pipeline is the best way to know your agents work as expected before they ever reach a customer.

How does º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø integrate with Agentforce Testing Center?

Agentforce Testing Center is a Salesforce sandbox environment tool for evaluating AI agent behaviour before changes reach production. Gearset Pipelines integrates with it and triggers tests automatically. Whenever a pull request contains Agentforce metadata, the relevant test suites run after deployment, and the results surface on the next PR downstream, so you see how your agents performed in one environment before promoting to the next. If tests fail, promotion is blocked until the failure is resolved or dismissed.

You can also deploy the test suites themselves through º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø, so test coverage moves through environments alongside the agents it covers. And because Testing Center tests are only as good as the data in the sandbox they run against, º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø’s sandbox seeding tool can populate dev and QA environments with realistic accounts, contacts, and case histories.

Do I need any additional tools or licences to deploy Agentforce with º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø?

No. Everything is handled natively within Gearset. No additional tools, no automation scripts, and no extra licences are required. º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø works at the metadata and API level, so manual steps are eliminated entirely rather than automated through fragile UI scripting.

Does º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø support Data 360 deployments alongside Agentforce?

Yes. Businesses getting the most from Agentforce typically run Data 360 alongside it. º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø supports deployments of both, so teams can manage changes to agents and Data 360 configuration in a single, seamless workflow, rather than maintaining two separate processes.

How does º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø support security and compliance requirements for Agentforce deployments?

º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø works entirely at the metadata and API level — the same way Salesforce itself manages deployments. There are no UI scripts to set up in your org, no automation touching live customer data, and no black-box processes. Every change is visible, reviewed, and logged before it’s deployed, giving your security and compliance teams full auditability over what changed, when, and by whom. Learn more about º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø’s security.

What API version do I need to deploy Agentforce with º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø?

API version requirements vary depending on the Agentforce metadata types you’re working with. Agentforce (GenAi) metadata types were introduced in API version 60, but some types require higher versions. You don’t need to track this manually — º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø detects the API version you’re using and flags it if you’re on the wrong one for the metadata in your deployment. For the full breakdown and guidance on how to set your API version in º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø, .

Can I deploy Agentforce changes without taking my agent offline?

Yes. º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø will automatically reactivate the new agent version immediately after the deployment stage completes, so your agent doesn’t have to be taken offline. You stay in control of which version goes live: you select the specific version to deploy, along with the relevant test suites, and that’s the one º£½ÇÌìÑÄÉçÇø activates on the other side.

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