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5 IdeaExchange Features Delivered, Trailblazer Knowledge vs Slack Move, AI Agent Billing Talks With Partners
From the curator, Grzegorz Skaruz: This week felt like one of those moments where Salesforce quietly rewrites a few rules and expects us to just roll with it. The biggest one: after 20 years, the Trailblazer Community forums are heading to Slack. I've got thoughts on what we might lose in that move, and what to prep before November.I'm also digging into the ongoing MFA rollout mess - the timelines keep shifting, and support messages aren't exactly clearing things up. If you're still unsure where you stand, you're not alone. Read the whole note
This week felt like one of those moments where Salesforce quietly rewrites a few rules and expects us to just roll with it. The biggest one: after 20 years, the Trailblazer Community forums are heading to Slack. I've got thoughts on what we might lose in that move, and what to prep before November.I'm also digging into the ongoing MFA rollout mess - the timelines keep shifting, and support messages aren't exactly clearing things up. If you're still unsure where you stand, you're not alone. On the business side, Salesforce opened talks with partners over confusing AI agent billing charges, and the latest ecosystem report tackles the question a lot of us are quietly asking: is a Salesforce job still worth chasing in 2027? Grab a coffee and dig in - there's more below worth your time.
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Salesforce Insights in 5 MinutesIssue #198For AI enthusiasts
Salesforce Opens Talks With Partners Over AI Agent Billing Concerns
Salesforce is now talking directly with partners about the confusion over its new agentic billing rules, especially charges for MCP and API calls. Amnon Kruvi, a Salesforce Architect and founder, shared that Salesforce reached out to him personally about the issue and what's coming next to fix the pricing confusion.
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Salesforce Insights in 5 MinutesIssue #198For AI enthusiasts
Building Agentic RAG: Connecting Data Cloud to Agentforce Studio (Part 2)
Part 2 picks up where Part 1 left off - now that the web data's indexed and vectorized in Data Cloud, it's time to make it smart. This post walks through building a custom retriever in Agentforce Studio, setting up a dynamic Flex Prompt Template in Prompt Builder, and deploying an Agentforce subagent. End result: real-time, grounded answers for users, pulled straight from your indexed data.
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Salesforce Insights in 5 MinutesIssue #198For AI enthusiasts
Introducing the Slack Code API: Your agents, your team, one code channel
Slack Code launched in August with a simple idea: coding agents shouldn't work alone in a private tab - they should work out in the open, right where teams already chat. Partners like Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, and Vercel tested this with "code channels," dedicated spaces where an agent tackles a task while teammates watch, add input, and approve changes without leaving Slack. GitHub Copilot alone opens one on 30% of its sessions. Over 150 companies wanted in, but only a few partners had access - until now. The Slack Code API is officially open to everyone, letting any developer build agents that create their own code channels, update teammates, and wrap up when done.
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