Platform Selection Guidance is published as a SKILL.md file in this catalog. At roughly 2,395 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.
Platform Selection Guidance sits in the Engineering category under the engineering-misc sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.
Use this skill when the question is which Salesforce platform feature or capability class should own a requirement — not which automation tool to use within the automation surface (see admin/process-automation-selection for Flow vs Apex vs Workflow decisions), and not how to implement the chosen feature. This skill covers the broader platform-level choice: how to store configuration data, which UI framework to use for new components, which integration pattern fits a given sync requirement, and whether OmniStudio is appropriate vs. standard Salesforce tooling.
Platform Selection Guidance is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/platform-selection-guidance/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when choosing which Salesforce platform capability to use for a requirement — covering metadata storage (Custom Metadata vs Custom Settings vs Custom Objects), UI framework (LWC vs Aura), integration approach (Platform Events vs Change Data Capture vs Outbound Messaging), and data extension (OmniStudio vs standard automation). Triggers: custom metadata vs custom settings, LWC vs Aura, which salesforce feature to use, platform events vs change data capture, omnistudio vs flow.
The Platform Selection Guidance Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/platform-selection-guidance curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/platform-selection-guidance/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/platform-selection-guidance/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/platform-selection-guidance/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/platform-selection-guidance/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\platform-selection-guidance\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/platform-selection-guidance/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Platform Selection Guidance is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{platform-selection-guidance-2026,
author = {Pranav Nagrecha},
title = {Platform Selection Guidance [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/platform-selection-guidance/}
}Browse all Engineering skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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