# dx-project-create

Scaffolds a new Salesforce DX project from CLI templates, moves the active session into the project folder, and connects a default org. Useful when starting a new Salesforce app.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2600 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/plugins/builder/salesforce-development/skills/dx-project-create/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dx-project-create

## What it does

This skill runs an interactive setup for creating a Salesforce DX project. Instead of relying on a hardcoded list, it queries `sf template generate project --help` directly from the local CLI. It supports templates like `standard`, `empty`, `analytics`, `agent`, alongside React and Angular UI-bundle starters for internal or external users.

Project names undergo strict validation against `^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_-]*$`. Shell special characters, spaces, and path separators get rejected immediately. Once files are generated, the agent switches its session directory to the new project, connects an org, and turns on source tracking.

You must have `sf >=2.0.0` and `npm >=8.0.0` installed in your environment. Without them, project creation will fail immediately.

## Requirements
- Works with: Salesforce

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-project-create -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-project-create -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/dx-project-create/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-project-create -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/dx-project-create/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install forcedotcom/sf-skills dx-project-create
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/dx-project-create/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-project-create -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --path plugins/builder/salesforce-development/skills/dx-project-create
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/dx-project-create/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-project-create -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/plugins/builder/salesforce-development/skills/dx-project-create/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- scaffold a new Salesforce DX project from CLI templates
- initialize a React or Angular UI-bundle app for Salesforce
- relocate the active agent session into the newly created project directory
- configure default Salesforce org connection and enable source tracking

## Example prompts
- Create a new Salesforce DX project named my-salesforce-app using the standard template
- Scaffold a Salesforce project for an external React application
- Run sf template generate project to make an empty project

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

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---
name: dx-project-create
description: "Scaffold a new Salesforce DX project of any template — standard, empty, analytics, agent, or a React/Angular UI-bundle app — and set it up end-to-end: relocate the session, connect an org, set the default, enable source tracking. Use when the user asks to create or scaffold a new Salesforce/SFDX project, start a new React/Angular Salesforce app, or run 'sf template generate project'. DO NOT TRIGGER for: building/editing/styling an EXISTING UI-bundle app (experience-ui-bundle-frontend-generate); scaffolding only a UI bundle as a step of building one out (experience-ui-bundle-project-generate, experience-ui-bundle-app-coordinate); tool validation (platform-environment-validate); org auth (login); project stats; scratch orgs (dx-org-manage)."
metadata:
  domains: ["Developer Experience"]
  relatedSkills:
    - "experience-ui-bundle-project-generate"
    - "experience-ui-bundle-frontend-generate"
    - "experience-ui-bundle-deploy"
    - "platform-environment-validate"
    - "dx-org-manage"
  cliTools:
    - tool: ["npm"]
      semver: ">=8.0.0"
    - tool: ["sf"]
      semver: ">=2.0.0"
allowed-tools:
  - Bash
  - Read
---

# Creating a New Salesforce Project

Walk the user through a wizard that scaffolds a new Salesforce DX project, relocates this session into the new project, connects it to an org, and configures it for development. Run each step in order, confirming with the user before any environment-changing action.

The `salesforce-development` plugin's MCP servers (`salesforce-api-context`, `salesforce-metadata-experts`, `salesforce-lsp`) are provided by the **installed plugin**, not by the project — so they stay available in the new project automatically once the session relocates. There is no per-project `.mcp.json` to copy.

## Step 1: Choose a Project Template

This skill scaffolds **every** template the CLI offers, including React/Angular UI-bundle apps — creating a project is a core capability and shouldn't require installing a separate plugin just to pick a template. (Once the project exists, the `experience-ui-bundle-*` skills own *building it out* — pages, components, styling, deploy — but the initial scaffold happens right here, whether or not that plugin is installed.)

Read the template set **live from the CLI** — never hardcode it, because Salesforce adds templates over time and a baked-in list goes stale:

```bash
sf template generate project --help
```
````
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