Salesforce ships Agent Script and a new Agent Builder, freezing the legacy builder
Agent definitions move from point-and-click configuration to versionable, testable code — a governance-relevant shift for enterprise SDLCs.
Salesforce released Agent Script — a code-first agent definition language — and a new Agent Builder in its July 1, 2026 wave, per the Salesforce developer blog. The legacy agent builder enters a freeze, with migration tooling and guidance for existing agents. Salesforce describes Agent Script as providing "deterministic control over agent reasoning" with versioning and testing hooks.
Context
Point-and-click agent builders democratized agent creation but produced artifacts that are hard to version, diff, test and audit. Moving agent definitions into code aligns agents with standard enterprise SDLC practice — code review, CI/CD, rollback — at the cost of narrowing who can author them. The shift lands the same week Salesforce made Agentforce Commerce generally available, signaling a platform-wide push from pilots to production discipline.
What changed
- Agent Script (GA): code-first agent definitions with deterministic control over reasoning, versioning and testing hooks, per the developer blog announcement.
- New Agent Builder: a rebuilt authoring experience around Agent Script.
- Legacy builder freeze: existing builder agents require migration tooling; the legacy builder is frozen.
- Free-tier presence: Agent Script already appears on the free Salesforce Foundations tier of the pricing page, lowering the evaluation barrier.
Why it matters
For enterprise governance teams, agent-as-code is a double win: agents become auditable artifacts with review trails, and changes become reversible. It also raises the skill bar for business teams that built agents in the legacy point-and-click builder — migration effort and retraining are the hidden costs of the freeze.
Details
Agent Script's stated differentiator is determinism — constraining agent reasoning paths rather than relying purely on prompt-level steering. Versioning and testing hooks let teams regression-test agents against defined behaviors before deployment, matching the governance direction of the wider market this month.
Limitations and caveats
Migration timelines and feature parity between legacy-builder agents and Agent Script were not detailed in the announcement; teams with large legacy agent inventories should pilot the migration tooling before committing. "Deterministic control" is a vendor claim about reduced, not eliminated, nondeterminism.
Sources
- Salesforce developer blog — Agent Script announcement (official)
- Salesforce Agentforce pricing (Foundations tier) (official)
- Salesforce press release: Agentforce Commerce GA (official)
*Update note: Published July 1, 2026; last reviewed July 22, 2026.*
Sources
- Salesforce developer blog — official
- Salesforce Agentforce pricing — official
- Salesforce: Agentforce Commerce GA — official
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