Salesforce Connect External Objects

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Sales · Sub-category: crm-systems

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Use when deciding whether Salesforce Connect and External Objects are the right fit for external data access, or when reviewing OData, cross-org, and custom adapter patterns, query limitations, and latency tradeoffs. Triggers: 'Salesforce Connect', 'External Objects', '__x', 'OData adapter', 'custom adapter'. NOT for ordinary ETL or replicated-data designs where the data should live inside Salesforce.

What this skill does

Salesforce Connect External Objects is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the crm-systems sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/salesforce-connect-external-objects/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when deciding whether Salesforce Connect and External Objects are the right fit for external data access, or when reviewing OData, cross-org, and custom adapter patterns, query limitations, and latency tradeoffs. Triggers: 'Salesforce Connect', 'External Objects', '__x', 'OData adapter', 'custom adapter'.

Who uses this skill

The Salesforce Connect External Objects skill is built for sales development reps, account executives, revenue operations teams, and customer success managers. 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/salesforce-connect-external-objects
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/salesforce-connect-external-objects/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/salesforce-connect-external-objects/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/salesforce-connect-external-objects/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/salesforce-connect-external-objects/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\salesforce-connect-external-objects\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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