Custom Metadata Types

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: security-misc

tool:salesforce

Use when designing deployable Salesforce configuration with Custom Metadata Types, especially when choosing between CMTs, Custom Settings, and Custom Objects, protecting packaged defaults, or exposing config to Apex, Flow, and formulas. Triggers: 'custom metadata vs custom settings', 'deployable config', 'protected custom metadata', 'feature flags in Salesforce'. NOT for high-churn transactional data, user-managed business records, or secret storage that should live in Named Credentials.

What this skill does

Custom Metadata Types is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when designing deployable Salesforce configuration with Custom Metadata Types, especially when choosing between CMTs, Custom Settings, and Custom Objects, protecting packaged defaults, or exposing config to Apex, Flow, and formulas. Triggers: 'custom metadata vs custom settings', 'deployable config', 'protected custom metadata', 'feature flags in Salesforce'.

Who uses this skill

The Custom Metadata Types skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/custom-metadata-types/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\custom-metadata-types\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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