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Platform Selection Guidance

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

tool:salesforcetype:integration

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. NOT for automation-specific tool selection between Flow / Apex / Workflow (use admin/process-automation-selection) or for implementing the chosen platform feature.

What this skill does

Platform Selection Guidance is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) 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.

Who uses this skill

The Platform Selection Guidance 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/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.

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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