Salesforce has today launched Agentforce Vibes – a new “vibe coding” offering intended to help enterprises speed up development and automate work.
You’ve probably heard of “vibe coding” – a recent and somewhat controversial approach to software development where devs give high-level, conversational instructions to an AI assistant, which then generates code.
Well, Salesforce has heard of it too, and believes that this approach unlocks new opportunities to build with creativity, speed, and scale.
Let’s take a look at Agentforce Vibes, Salesforce’s new vibe coding offering for the enterprise.
What Is Agentforce Vibes?
Vibe coding has been gaining traction for certain use cases like rapid ideation, prototyping, and throw-away projects, but using this method to build production-ready business apps is challenging.
Salesforce seeks to change this with Agentforce Vibes – a Salesforce-tailored, AI-powered IDE plug-in to build, debug, test, and deploy Salesforce apps and agents.
It’s meant to work seamlessly with Salesforce’s Application Lifecycle (ALM) products, including Salesforce Sandboxes, Code Analyzer v5, and DevOps Center, and with agentic chat capabilities from the Cline open source project.
Agentforce Vibes is available in any VS Code-compatible IDE, including Anypoint Code Builder (MuleSoft), Cursor, or Windsurf.
Salesforce says that Agentforce Vibes can accelerate development across all stages (ideate and plan, build, test, deploy, and observe), automate repetitive work, and help ensure quality and scalable apps.
It is intended to provide built-in, enterprise-grade security and governance controls through the Salesforce Platform and Trust Layer, so developers can focus on solving complex problems and building smarter applications, integrations, and agents.
Meet Vibe Codey (ha ha…)
Agentforce Vibes introduces Vibe Codey, a new AI agent meant to collaborate with you like a pair programmer.
Salesforce says that Vibe Codey is not just a tool for suggesting code, it’s a “coding partner” that can understand project context and execute on your behalf to accelerate the development lifecycle.
Vibe Codey’s capabilities include:
- Context-aware Plan mode, which understands Salesforce schema
- Agentic code generation (Apex, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and others)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) support with 20+ included MCP tools
- Checkpoints to roll back changes
- Agentic Rules to tailor agentic development
- Test case generation
- Code analysis (security, performance, best practices)
- Agentic bug resolution
- Natural language DevOps and app deployment
Vibe Codey supports multiple models, including xGen, GPT-5, and internally hosted models, and is extensible using Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Vibe Codey is context-aware, meaning it has a deep understanding of Salesforce project structure and organization’s metadata, and it can discover, analyze, and reuse existing code, while adhering to coding standards for greater consistency and collaboration.
Salesforce says that Vibe Codey facilitates the creation of low-code or pro-code applications across multiple user experiences, including web, mobile, and coming soon, Slack.
Building with Vibe Codey is also governed by privacy and security features and controls inherent to the Salesforce Platform – like built-in guardrails, Trust Layer, and Salesforce Sandboxes – that allow Vibe Codey to build and test in isolated development environments before deploying to production.
Some use cases to get started with Vibe Codey include:
- Rapid prototyping: Build and test ideas quickly.
- Greenfield projects: Create new apps with few constraints.
- Conversational refactoring: Use conversation coding to refactor code; try asking Vibe Codey “Can you simplify this method?” or “Extract this into a service class.”
- Lightning Web Component (LWC) generation: Create dynamic UI and forms, controllers, and Apex classes.
Beyond just interfacing with Vibe Codey, Agentforce Vibes is extensible to other agentic tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf through the Salesforce DX MCP Server (available now in Developer Preview) released in May this year.
Salesforce DX MCP gives developers the ability to run a local MCP server, which understands the content and configuration of Salesforce DX projects and integrates directly with DX Foundation libraries.
Since its initial launch, Salesforce has added several new toolsets to the Salesforce DX MCP Server, spanning mobile development, Aura and Lightning Web Components, and Code Analyzer.
Agentforce Vibes is now generally available with a limited number of requests.
Salesforce says it expects to launch a way to buy more requests and the ability to use premium coding models in a future release.
There will be more information to share at this year’s Dreamforce, including hands-on vibe coding labs.
Final Thoughts
Whatever your thoughts on vibe coding, it seems that, as AI tools become more advanced, the role of the developer is somewhat shifting.
As we reported earlier this week, the recent 10K Salesforce Talent Ecosystem Report revealed that demand for Salesforce developers was dropping globally – whereas Admins, TAs, BAs, and Consultants all saw growth in demand (though not necessarily in line with supply).
It is a subject that we have written about extensively, but again and again, this question arises: as AI tools make life simpler for developers, what happens to the role?
Vibe coding tools are helpful, and there’s always an argument to be made in favour of tools that boost productivity and simplify processes.
But as time goes on, it’s still worth coming back to that question: what does this mean for the future of the developer?
