Key Takeaways for Architects from TrailblazerDX 2025

TrailblazerDX is the annual Salesforce event tailored for Salesforce professionals who design, build, and maintain solutions on the Salesforce platform. Unlike Dreamforce, which is aimed at virtually all roles within the Salesforce ecosystem, TDX dives deeper into the technical aspects of features, products, roadmaps, and how to best leverage them to set up even the most complex implementations successfully.

With TDX wrapping up yesterday, let’s take a look at some of the main announcements and what’s next. There is a wealth of information and insights shared by the product teams at Salesforce, alongside customer success stories, all available to explore and dive into on demand on Salesforce+ if you couldn’t attend the event in person.

Agentforce Keeps Evolving

It comes as no surprise that Agentforce has been the hottest topic at TDX, with the highest number of sessions for both admins and developers focusing on getting started and customizing agents within Salesforce’s flagship AI product, using both declarative and programmatic approaches.

Agentic automation is on the rise, and Salesforce Architects play a pivotal role in ensuring that their solutions not only continue to bring value across Salesforce and other enterprise systems as companies scale, but also easily integrate with agentic reasoning to supercharge and streamline all business processes – whether internal or customer-facing – beyond a conversation window.

This is now possible with Agentforce 2dx, specifically tailored for Salesforce professionals to develop and implement truly scalable, enterprise-level solutions by balancing the necessary deterministic level of control with the non-deterministic aspect of generative AI outputs. This enables action to be taken across any system, and of course, brings agentic experiences everywhere they need to be.

By introducing new capabilities such as the ability to invoke agents from Salesforce Flow and Apex (already available), Salesforce empowers agentblazers to fully control when the agent takes action without the need for a conversation. Later this month, they can use variables and filters within Agent Builder to guarantee expected behaviour based on specific user attributes. Next month, surfaces will be implemented to better customize device-specific interactions across all digital channels through interactive components and media.

This gives complete control over what data can be accessed by the agent and how it is exposed to the customer – all without hindering any of the dynamic capabilities Agentforce brings to the table. And this is just the tip of the iceberg!

The Agentforce 2dx Development Lifecycle

One question that surely most Salesforce professionals have had since Agentforce was announced is how these changes will play into their existing processes and how agents can be properly planned, tested, deployed, and monitored.

To address this, Salesforce has just announced an entire suite of apps, some of which are already generally available, with others coming soon. This accounts for the entire development lifecycle when developing agentic applications on the platform – whether you do so with clicks, not code, or programmatically.

Gone are the days when you had to spin up a new org every few days to explore the Agentforce innovations and build your own agents! One of the announcements at TDX this week was the new free Developer Edition, with both Agentforce and Data Cloud for Salesforce professionals to get hands-on and familiarize themselves with the brand-new features without consuming credits in their sandboxes. An added bonus is that this org no longer expires, as long as you log in, of course.

To speed up Agentforce development from the get-go, AI assistance within Agent Builder is generally available, allowing you to let AI do the work based on a clear description and requirements for the role the agent is supposed to have. The magic happens with topics and actions are generated and suggested to suit your needs.

When diving into the suggested actions, if applicable and already existing, you will see that Flows, Apex Classes, and even custom APIs you have already created as actions will not only be automatically recommended but also ordered by similarity, allowing you to make a decision on the same screen.

While the beginning of the lifecycle looks promising, there is so much more in-between when it comes to testing and deploying agents, which you should definitely check out in the TDX Keynote and other on-demand sessions. Let’s fast-forward to the end of it – the Observe phase. Ultimately, AI solutions should not only drive business value when deployed but continue to do so over time, improving as the business grows and processes change.

With Agentforce Interaction Explorer, you can drill down into key metrics about any and all agents, which can help you assess the quality, usage, and topic performance – but that’s not all. Generative AI is used to tag and categorize conversation topics, and you can further navigate into each individual conversation and leverage Conversation Explorer to review the actual conversation in the Session Log, all while the PII in the conversation is masked as needed with the new Data Cloud Governance capabilities. You can also follow each turn and, in case actions were triggered, dive into the trace and see how long each step took to execute.

LWC Optimization and ApexGuru Insights

Creating accessible and scalable custom solutions on the Salesforce platform is a team sport, with Salesforce Architects working closely with Salesforce Developers to extend core functionality through Apex and Lightning Web Components. These enhancements are certainly worth using to optimize the actual build, delivery, and maintenance of well-rounded solutions.

With Agentforce for Developers, in addition to Dev Assistant answering your questions, creating unit tests for Apex methods and LWC components can become a breeze through the use of AI directly within VS Code or Code Builder. This is currently generally available for both Apex and LWC. Additionally, with readily available slash commands, you can easily get up to speed with any components and classes without having to go through each line yourself anymore – Agentforce can do it for you!

The LWC Optimize feature within the agents panel is currently in developer preview and can help your team optimize components for accessibility and best practices. The agent will analyze your LWC bundle against Level A Web Content Accessibility Guidelines standards and provide recommended changes.

But this is not all when it comes to optimization, as soon as ApexGuru and Code Analyzer also receive well-deserved updates. On top of that, these tools will seamlessly work together to offer you more insights, and much sooner than your production org and your full copy sandbox. 

ApexGuru is generally available today for Unlimited Edition and Signature customers in Scale Center. However, it was announced at TDX that Scale Center will become generally available for Enterprise Edition as well by the end of the year, empowering even more business to address potential performance bottlenecks and easily keep up with the latest Apex best practices when scaling. 

Powered by xGen, ApexGuru will continue to be the one-stop shop for actionable insights into your codebase by providing tailored code recommendations, identifying expensive methods that occupy more than 5% of CPU time as critical (for example), or highlight unused classes to help reduce technical debt. Identifying and sanctioning any antipatterns sooner, directly within VS Code, is made possible through the integration with Code Analyzer 5 (beta), which is planned to become generally available in Winter ’26, doubling down on the unified experience.

More to Come in Future Releases

TDX is well known for being the conference where Salesforce product teams unveil and discuss the upcoming roadmap items, answer questions, and demonstrate features that may not even be in beta yet. This year was no different!

One feature highlighted in the Platform Integrations Roadmap session is the soon-to-be possibility of Named Queries, planned to enter beta in Summer ’25 (safe harbor). This feature will enable the creation of reusable SOQL queries directly in Setup, making them accessible across the board in Flows and Apex as REST APIs and as Agent Actions. Exciting times for both pro-code and low-code professionals!

The Lightning Web Component Roadmap session was also packaged with upcoming features, but most notably, after a prolonged beta period of Lightning Out, Lightning Out 2.0 is planned to enter beta in Summer ‘25 and become generally available in the second half of the year (safe harbor). With significant improvements, including the use of iframes for enhanced security and  SLDS and SLDS 2 to better align with the look and feel of the host application, Lightning Out 2.0 will make the experience of running Lightning Components outside of the Salesforce platform even smoother. 

Summary

All in all, TrailblazerDX 2025 did not disappoint in terms of news across both Agentforce and overall platform changes, and everything was backed by insightful demos either during the keynote sessions or at the dedicated booths for in-person attendees.

With the well-architected program as we knew it coming to a halt – potentially the reason for a lower number of architecture sessions at TDX and especially on Salesforce+ – let’s see how architect-focused content and workshops at Salesforce events will continue to transform this year.