custom-field-creation

custom-field-creation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BanibrataChatterjee/AwesomeSalesforceSkills. It costs 112 tokens per session (3,134 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to adding custom fields to Salesforce objects such as Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, and Cases. It covers the field's data type, access rules, page placement, and deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose field types, create fields, configure read and edit access, place fields on layouts, and deploy them safely.
Why use it?
It prevents fields from being created with the wrong permanent type or remaining invisible because field-level security and page layouts were skipped. It also helps account for existing records and integrations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to choose field types, create fields, configure read and edit access, place fields on layouts, and deploy them safely.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/banibratachatterjee/awesomesalesforceskills/custom-field-creation
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add BanibrataChatterjee/AwesomeSalesforceSkills --skill custom-field-creation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BanibrataChatterjee/AwesomeSalesforceSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,134 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00112 $0.03134
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01567
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00627
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00313

Measured 9d ago against content hash 75a830eabeb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

custom-field-creation scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_custom_field_creation.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/admin/custom-field-creation/SKILL.md · 249 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 249 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Custom Field Creation

Use this skill when a practitioner needs to add a new custom field to any Salesforce object — from choosing the right field type through FLS configuration, page layout placement, and deployment to production. The skill covers all field types on both standard and custom objects.


Before Starting

Gather this context before working on field creation:

  • Target object: Standard object (Account, Contact, Opportunity, Case, Lead) or custom object?
  • Data type: What kind of data is being stored? Text, number, date, a relationship to another object, a yes/no flag?
  • Cardinality: Is there a fixed set of valid values (use Picklist) or free-form text?
  • Who needs access: Which profiles or permission sets need read vs. edit access?
  • Required?: Does every record need this field? If yes, existing records and integrations must be able to provide the value.
  • Deployment target: Is this going to production? Change set or SFDX/sf CLI?

The most common wrong assumption: creating a field is enough to make it visible to users. It is not. FLS and page layout must also be configured.


Core Concepts

1. Field Type Is Permanent (Mostly)

Once you save a custom field, the field type cannot be changed for most types. Text cannot become a Picklist. Number cannot become Currency. The exceptions Salesforce permits are: Text ↔ Text Area, Auto Number ↔ Text, and certain picklist conversions. Plan the field type before clicking Save — changing it later requires creating a new field, migrating data, and retiring the old field.

2. Three Separate Access Layers

Salesforce has three independent layers that must all be configured for a user to see and use a custom field:

  1. Field definition — the field exists on the object (created in Object Manager).
  2. Field-Level Security (FLS) — controls which profiles or permission sets can see (Read) or edit (Edit) the field. Newly created fields default to hidden for all profiles in Enterprise and Unlimited editions.
  3. Page layout — controls whether the field appears on the record detail/edit page in the UI. FLS and page layout are independent: a field can be on a layout but hidden by FLS (user sees nothing), or accessible via FLS but not on any layout (accessible via API and reports, but not the UI record page).

Read the full file on GitHub · 249 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 249 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 75a830eabeb2

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custom-field-creation is a skill published in the GitHub repository BanibrataChatterjee/AwesomeSalesforceSkills (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 3,134 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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