# automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure

Takes a post-copy automation JSON config and runs it against a Salesforce sandbox: turns Flows on, re-points OBM and RemoteSiteSetting URLs, reschedules ScheduledApex.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2100 installs · ★ 1112
- Author: forcedotcom
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure

## What it does

The skill opens the config file you name (default `./post-copy-config.json`) and checks every entry for all five keys: `ConfigurationName`, `Label`, `Fields`, `IsActive`, `ExecutionOrder`. One malformed entry stops the run, and the reply names the file path plus the entry index. No partial apply, no invented entries.

Each type then follows its own route. For `OutboundMessages` and `RemoteSiteSettings` the skill calls the Tooling API describe endpoint: the sobject has to answer 200 and expose a compound `Metadata` field, otherwise the entry is marked `API_NOT_IDENTIFIED` and left alone. A SOQL query resolves the Id, then a PATCH writes through `Metadata`. `ScheduledApex` goes by anonymous Apex instead, since `CronTrigger` is read-only. On `Flows` the skill changes `activeVersionNumber`, and a state check separates `ALREADY_ACTIVE` from `ALREADY_INACTIVE` before anything is sent.

Execution runs through Bash and the `sf` CLI only (`sf data query --use-tooling-api`, `sf api request rest`, `sf org display`); MCP wrappers cannot carry the compound PATCH. The machine needs `curl`, `jq`, `node` and `sf`. Settle the org alias with the skill first: it writes to a live sandbox, and a production alias sitting as the CLI default is how people wreck a working day.

## Requirements
- Works with: Salesforce

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install forcedotcom/sf-skills automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --path skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- switch an Integration Flow to its new version after a sandbox refresh
- move outbound message endpoints to the refreshed host
- update a RemoteSiteSetting URL without clicking through Setup
- re-arm a ScheduledApex job that disappeared after copy
- preview a post-refresh config before touching the org

## Example prompts
- Apply the post-copy config `post-copy-config.json` to the UAT sandbox
- Dry-run the post-copy automation from `post-copy-config.json` and show me the plan
- Deactivate Flow Legacy_Sync after the refresh

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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BEGIN THIRD-PARTY FILE f68382690e378c58
```text
---
name: automation-sandbox-post-copy-configure
description: "Apply a Salesforce sandbox post-copy automation JSON config against a target org. Use when the user asks to apply, run, execute, dry-run, or preview a post-copy or post-refresh config file (e.g. `post-copy-config.json`) against a sandbox — including activating/deactivating a Flow (PATCH `FlowDefinition.Metadata.activeVersionNumber` to the version, or `null`), re-pointing an OBM endpoint, updating a RemoteSiteSetting URL, or re-scheduling a ScheduledApex job after refresh. Also trigger for phrasings like \"apply post-copy config\", \"run post-copy automation\", \"activate Flow <name> post-refresh\", \"deactivate Flow <name>\", \"re-point outbound messages after refresh\", or \"configure sandbox after refresh\". Per entry, derive the Tooling API sobject, verify via describe, resolve the Id via SOQL, then PATCH the compound `Metadata` field (`ScheduledApex` uses anonymous Apex). DO NOT TRIGGER for generating config JSON from an SOP (use `automation-sandbox-post-copy-config-generate`) or for deploying metadata XML."
allowed-tools: Bash Read Write
metadata:
  relatedSkills:
    - "automation-sandbox-post-copy-config-generate"
    - "dx-org-permission-set-assign"
    - "platform-metadata-deploy"
  version: "1.3"
  domains: ["Automation"]
  cliTools:
    - tool: ["curl"]
      semver: ">=7.0.0"
    - tool: ["jq"]
      semver: ">=1.6"
    - tool: ["node"]
      semver: ">=18.0.0"
    - tool: ["sf"]
      semver: ">=2.0.0"
---

# Automation: Sandbox Post-Copy Configure

Apply a Salesforce sandbox post-copy automation JSON config to a target
org. Four canonical `ConfigurationName` values are pinned:
`OutboundMessages` + `RemoteSiteSettings` → compound-`Metadata` PATCH
(Steps A–E); `ScheduledApex` → anonymous-Apex (Step F) since
`CronTrigger` is read-only; `Flows` → flow-activation (Step G), same
compound-`Metadata` transport as A–E with fixed mutation key
```
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