# Salesforce: L1 · Needs a person As of 16 Oct 2026, an AI agent can't use Salesforce on its own: Akamai refuses sign-up pages; trial needs phone. Source: https://agentdrives.com/tools/salesforce?via=md · driven 16 Oct 2026 by AgentDrives's agent · New level in the latest drive · Rules of 15 Oct 2026 (https://agentdrives.com/method/rules?via=md) · license CC BY 4.0 An agent cannot get into Salesforce: the free Developer Edition sign-up on developer.salesforce.com and the Trailblazer sign-in behind the Starter Suite trial are refused by Akamai (403, no challenge), and the Enterprise trial form requires a phone number. The docs are agent-friendly on docs.salesforce.com (llms.txt, markdown pages) and there is an official hosted MCP server and a rich sf CLI, but all of it needs an org we could not create, so no capability was driven. _Written by our agents from this drive. How we write: https://agentdrives.com/method?via=md#notes_ L1 · Needs a person: There is an API, CLI or MCP server, but an agent can't get in on its own: a person has to sign up, verify or make the key. What it does once a person sets it up shows next to the level. - Find: Some docs for agents (llms.txt and an MCP server) - Access: Signs up sometimes - Use: Work not reached - Pay: Payment not reached - Leave: Leaving not reached - Next: let an agent sign up on its own - With an account set up by a person: not measured yet. - robots.txt asks crawlers to stay off sign-up and the API. Nothing to fix. It keeps these pages out of search and doesn't stop agents signing up. ## Level history - 1 Oct 2026: L1 · Needs a person - 6 Oct 2026: L2 · Gets in (new drive) - 16 Oct 2026: L1 · Needs a person (new drive) ## Part scores - Agent-ready setup: llms.txt found, OpenAPI not found, MCP server found, CLI found - Not measured in this drive: Holds up, Docs match ## Who gets in - Agents on a server: Stopped before the sign-up page. - Signed agents: The sign-up page opens. - Agents in a person's browser: Not measured yet. Sign-up page checked 16 Oct 2026. Signed agents: the ones Cloudflare verifies. ## Ways in - Email and password: Stopped by a CAPTCHA - Sign-in for apps (OAuth, MCP): Stopped by the consent page needs an account ## The docs 138 of 3,736 pages read. Some gaps. - A getting-started page - An auth page - Errors only mentioned in passing - Code examples on some pages - Newest page updated 23 May 2024 - A page for 9 of 10 core tasks ## Checkpoints - **Docs**: Headless: docs.salesforce.com serves llms.txt and a .md copy of every page (Hosted MCP Servers, sf CLI reference, object reference); developer.salesforce.com itself answers 403 to our agent, and the REST API and Bulk API guides are not on the markdown mirror. - **Sign up**: Blocked: Akamai refuses our agent on developer.salesforce.com (Developer Edition sign-up, 403 'Oops Something went wrong') and on the c.salesforce.com scripts of the Trailblazer sign-in, with no challenge shown; the Enterprise trial form requires a phone number, then stopped loading for the same 403s. - **Verify**: Not reached: not reached: no sign-up went through - **Key**: Not reached: not reached: credentials need an org (External Client App in Setup or sf org login web) - **First call**: Not reached: not reached: the MCP server and the REST API need an org token ('JWT Token is required') - **First action**: Not reached: not reached - **Pay**: Not reached: No 402, MPP or Stripe Projects listing; we paid nothing. The pricing page lists editions from $25 USD/user/month and links only to no-card trials and contact-sales; the trial form requires a phone. Buying happens inside an org we could not get, so the checkout was not reached. - **Cancel**: Not reached: Nothing to cancel: no account, plan or trial was started. Cancelling was not observed; the docs we read do not describe a billing API. - **Delete**: Not reached: No account was created, so nothing to delete; no trial mail arrived at our inbox. ## Does Salesforce have an MCP server, and can an agent connect to it? Yes. Salesforce has an official MCP server. A new agent can't get in on its own: in the drive of 16 Oct 2026, our agent stopped at sign up (it was blocked). Through the MCP server, 1 of our agent's 10 attempts worked. ## How does an AI agent get a Salesforce API key? Not reached: in the drive of 16 Oct 2026, sign-up stopped our agent first (it was blocked). not reached: credentials need an org (External Client App in Setup or sf org login web) ## Paying the agent way Payment not reached. The checkout: The checkout wasn't reached: Starter Suite, $25 a month; No CAPTCHA at checkout; Asks for a phone number. What would let agents pay on their own: - Accept x402 or MPP on your API: Answer an unpaid call with 402 and a payment challenge, so an agent pays per call or buys credits without an account or a card. - List your plans on Stripe Projects: Agents buy a plan with `stripe projects add`, paid with a token under a spend cap the owner sets (projects.dev). - Let a verified agent finish your checkout: Show signed agents no visible CAPTCHA at checkout, accept virtual and prepaid cards, and don't ask for a phone number to pay. Ways to pay checked 16 Oct 2026. ## What an agent can do - Read the Salesforce developer docs as markdown from docs.salesforce.com (llms.txt, .md pages, manifests) - Install the sf CLI and list its documented commands without an account ## What it cannot do - Sign up for a free Developer Edition org: developer.salesforce.com answers 403 (Akamai) to our signed agent on every path, in curl and in the browser - Start a Sales Cloud Enterprise trial: the form requires a phone number; it then stopped loading because its scripts answered 403 - Start a Starter Suite trial: the Trailblazer sign-in page stays blank: Akamai answers 403 to its scripts - Connect to the hosted MCP server or call the REST API: both need an org and an admin-made External Client App; DCR needs an initial token - Any CRM, service, agent or marketing task: no org could be created ## Tips for the owner 1. Let verified agents reach the developer sign-up 2. Make the trial phone number optional 3. Offer a headless org sign-up for agents 4. Support CIMD and device flow on login.salesforce.com 5. Put the REST and Bulk guides on docs.salesforce.com 6. Accept x402 or MPP for a plan Is this your product? Claim it free and reply next to the result, or get a Drive ($49) for your private report: https://agentdrives.com/pricing?via=md#drive. Fixed something? 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