What problem does it solve? Deploying Salesforce metadata safely is hard: test levels and coverage rules differ per org type, destructive changes have strict manifest rules, production deploys can burn entire change windows on test runs, and many metadata types (Profiles, Flows, picklists, sharing rules) fail in non-obvious ways. This Skill provides the decision tables, command patterns, and error catalogue needed to get metadata into an org without surprises. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Deployment mechanism selection: Decision tables for source deploy vs Metadata API vs change sets vs DevOps Center vs packaging, plus the full sf project deploy start/validate/quick/report/resume/cancel flag surface. - Production validate + quick deploy runbook: Step-by-step flow covering the 10-day validation window, coverage preconditions, the deploy-jobs.json state contract, hook-based production guards, and rollback options including pre-validated rollback packages. - Per-type gotchas and error catalogue: Documented traps for Profiles, Flows, custom settings, record types, picklists, sharing rules, layouts, and translations, plus an error-string-to-cause-to-fix catalogue for triage. - Use Case: You need to promote a release to production. The Skill walks you through generating a delta manifest, backing up the pre-deploy state, running sf project deploy validate with RunLocalTests, gating on coverage, then quick-deploying the validated job id inside the change window. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to validate and quick-deploy the current release manifest to the production org using RunLocalTests with a pre-deploy backup.
