Salesforce pickin' up good vibrations

Agentforce Vibes is a new AI-assisted IDE for building Salesforce apps and agents

Salesforce is bringing "vibe coding" to enterprise customers through a service called Agentforce Vibes - and it may not be as troubling as it sounds.

Dan Fernandez, VP of product for developer services at Salesforce, acknowledges the elephant in the room by distancing what Salesforce has in mind from the popular conception of "vibe coding" – instructing an AI model to write code and iterating through natural language conversation.

The risk posed by "vibe coding" varies with the skill of the developer involved and the tools made available to the model. So it is difficult to generalize about the practice. But the term implies a lack of caution and planning, which may be an issue for AI models that routinely come with warnings about their capacity to err.

Hence, Fernandez makes clear that Salesforce's interpretation of "vibe coding" is not an attempt to encourage prompt-to-production development practices.

"Unlike 'traditional' vibe coding tools, Agentforce Vibes provides built-in, enterprise-grade security and governance controls through the Salesforce Platform and Trust Layer, so you can focus on solving complex problems and building smarter applications, integrations, and agents," Fernandez explained in a blog post.

Agentforce Vibes is an AI-enabled IDE that's designed to make it easier to build, test, and deploy Salesforce apps and agents. Launchable via dropdown menu from the Salesforce developer menu bar, it's also available in VS Code-compatible IDEs, including MuleSoft's Anypoint Code Builder, Cursor, and Windsurf. Or it will be available shortly – expect more details to emerge when the company's enormous Dreamforce show gets underway in San Francisco later this month.

Vibes is said to be compatible with Salesforce’s Application Lifecycle (ALM) products, including Salesforce Sandboxes, Code Analyzer v5, and DevOps Center, not to mention the agentic chat capabilities via the Cline open source project.

Agentforce Vibes integrates a chat interface called Vibe Codey (yes, really) that can be invoked from a bear icon on the IDE's left-hand menu pane – as seen in this video.

Fernandez explains that Vibe Codey can understand Salesforce schemas, generate code (e.g., Apex, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, among others), integrate MCP calls, generate tests, and so on. The chatbot supports a variety of models, including Salesforce's xGen, OpenAI's GPT-5, and internally hosted models.

Caroline Qureshi, managing practitioner with PhoenixTeam, an Arlington, Virginia-based IT consultancy, told The Register in a phone interview that she is looking forward to trying Agentforce Vibes.

"The natural language aspect of this is really going to help the DevSecOps development timeline," she said. "I see a lot of opportunity with the prototyping aspect."

Qureshi still has questions about how much the service will cost and asked Fernandez about this in a LinkedIn thread.

Fernandez responded that he'd provide more detail later but noted, "the short answer is that you get 50 GPT-5 requests per Sandbox/Scratch organization, then it defaults to our internally hosted models."

Qureshi said the primary use case for Agentforce Vibes is likely to be rapid prototyping for enterprise projects. "Even if you have a good concept, you still have to go through the DevSecOp pipeline and develop and build out to get that feedback," she said. "So this would cut it in half."

The idea, she explained, is that business users, rather than developers, can jumpstart the development process, and once the proof-of-concept application has taken shape, developers can then add refinements. AI, it appears, has breathed new life into low-code development, a conceit that never lived up to the hype.

Prototyping also has benefits in terms of helping organizations figure out how much AI-enabled applications will cost to operate and how that relates to the business benefit of the application or service.

"The mystery bill comes in, and that's where everybody's like, whoa, we need to push back," said Qureshi. "So starting with a small but viable use case and driving that forward is going to be the key to success."

The biggest benefit of vibe coding, said Qureshi, is that you don't have to be a developer. "You can be an everyday person with a concept." ®