Destructive Changes Deployment

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: devops

tool:salesforce

Managing destructiveChanges.xml manifests for safe metadata deletion in Salesforce deployments. Use when deleting metadata components via Metadata API or sf CLI. Covers pre vs post destructive manifests, safe deletion sequencing, dependency handling. NOT for package.xml basics (use metadata-api-and-package-xml). NOT for basic deployment setup (use change-set-deployment).

What this skill does

Destructive Changes Deployment is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the devops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/destructive-changes-deployment/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when deleting metadata components via Metadata API or sf CLI. Covers pre vs post destructive manifests, safe deletion sequencing, dependency handling.

Who uses this skill

The Destructive Changes Deployment skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. 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/destructive-changes-deployment
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/destructive-changes-deployment/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/destructive-changes-deployment/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/destructive-changes-deployment/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/destructive-changes-deployment/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\destructive-changes-deployment\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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