It’s that time of year again – TrailblazerDX is in full swing in San Francisco, and this year is the event’s 10th anniversary. With TrailblazerDX being Salesforce’s developer-focused event, it is the go-to location for many of the new developer announcements for the year.
This year is no different, with the keynote introducing a whole host of new features and items for you to get building with. Here are my top five announcements from the TrailblazerDX 2026 keynote that I think will have developers excited.
1. Salesforce Headless 360
The headline announcement from the keynote was Salesforce Headless 360, a new suite of tools to allow agents to leverage all of Salesforce via MCPs, AIs, or CLIs with no browser required.
As the announcement post states, Parker Harris recently asked, “Why should you ever log into Salesforce again?” – not to provoke Salesforce Developers, Admins, and Users, but to suggest a direction of travel. This is what Salesforce Headless 360 is.
Source: Salesforce keynote
Why do I think developers should be excited? As part of Salesforce Headless 360, Salesforce is hosting over 60 new MCP tools and over 30 new skills to help make your development agents smarter.
One of the big headaches for those trying to use AI coding agents with Salesforce is ensuring that the correct context and information are available for the agent from Salesforce. These new hosted MCPs are now GA and available in new Developer Editions to build with.
2. Agentforce Vibes 2.0
Salesforce also showcased Agentforce Vibes 2.0, the latest iteration of their Agentforce Vibes app and VS Code extension that is updated to utilize the new MCP commands and tools listed above in Headless 360. It allows you to build for new targets, namely agents, React Apps (more on this to come below), lightning apps, and native mobile apps using a complete end-to-end vibe coding approach.
Source: Salesforce blog on Salesforce Multi-Framework
This in itself is great, but my favourite feature from Agentforce Vibes 2.0 was actually an extra that was thrown in – a new data model visualizer.
During the keynote, Salesforce claimed it takes on average seven clicks in the setup menu to access the details of an object or field, meaning 100s of clicks for large objects.
Aside from that, viewing an XML file is, quite honestly, not that easy for humans. So a new data model visualization tool built and supported by Salesforce that allows you to explore the data model is huge win that I think many developers (and admins and architects) will love.
Source: Salesforce keynote
3. Agentforce Experience Layer
So you are able to build new features and apps using new tools and MCP servers – but where can you let your users work with them? Agentforce Experience Layer is a new way of defining your interface once as a widget and then rendering it natively in Slack, ChatGPT, Claude, Agentforce, or any MCP host.
Being able to create user interface widgets that can be run and viewed across multiple platforms is a huge win for developers and allows us to take our existing systems and expose them in more places quickly and easily.
There is even a new Agentforce Experience Playground where you can see example widgets as well as tutorials and documentation to help you get up and running.
4. New AgentExchange and Builders Initiative
Great – we are now building faster and can deliver user experiences available in more places. But how do I find what others have built, or how do I go about building and releasing what I have built?
Salesforce announced the updated AgentExchange, which allows you to choose from over 13,000 agents, tools, and apps, as well as a $50M AgentExchange Builders Initiative to build new solutions for developers. More details on applying and eligibility for this initiative are to be released, but this is a big investment from Salesforce in helping developers get their ideas to market and in the hands of customers.
5. Agentforce Labs
It’s fair to say that for a lot of developers are finding it hard to keep up to date with all the latest developments with Agentforce. With regular releases, as well as the generally higher velocity of change in the software development space, staying ahead of the curve is becoming a full-time job in itself.
To help with this, Salesforce have released Agentforce Labs, a new website where you can not only build an agent but also see experiments and upcoming features for you to play with and test. It is good to see Salesforce sharing more of what’s coming and being experimented with to help developers stay up to date and prepare for future changes and updates.
Bonus: React Apps on Salesforce
A final bonus item is that Salesforce introduced Salesforce Multi-Framework, a new runtime that is framework-agnostic and allows you to build applications using frameworks to then hosted on Salesforce. Currently, only ReactJS is supported, but more frameworks are coming.
This is a huge win for Salesforce Developers. It will allow you to utilize the power of the React framework on Salesforce to build and host completely custom user interfaces and applications. Data is retrieved and mutated using GraphQL, you can use your own styling and component libraries, and it integrates fully with Agentforce Vibes in a governed manner to help you get up and running. This feature is currently in Beta and available in sandboxes and scratch orgs for those wishing to play.
Summary
These are my top five (plus one extra) developer announcements from TrailblazerDX 2026, with Salesforce focusing on the development lifecycle and experience to help encourage developers to build more experiences, agentic or not, across more platforms, faster. What has got you excited as a developer from this year’s TDX?
