# experience-lds-data-requirements-generate

Turns ambiguous LWC data needs into clear Salesforce specifications. Recommends GraphQL, UI API, or Apex before anyone writes wire adapters or Apex code.

- 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/skills/experience-lds-data-requirements-generate/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/experience-lds-data-requirements-generate

## What it does

This skill runs a three-stage analyst process: requirements clarification, API name validation, and API recommendation. It begins by identifying whether the task requires reading, creating, updating, or deleting data. Standard objects such as `Account` or `Contact` pass immediately, while custom entities trigger mandatory verification in Setup → Object Manager to confirm their `__c` suffixes.

The process halts if field certainty falls below 90%. It strictly refuses to invent custom field names or guess API identifiers. In the recommendation stage, it checks GraphQL first for read queries and relationships. UI API handles record mutations, metadata, and picklists, while Apex serves purely as an escalation path when UI API lacks support.

This workflow focuses exclusively on scoping and data analysis. It does not draft the finished component bundle, directing full end-to-end implementation tasks to `experience-lwc-generate`.

## Requirements
- Works with: Salesforce

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-lds-data-requirements-generate -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-lds-data-requirements-generate -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/experience-lds-data-requirements-generate/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-lds-data-requirements-generate -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/experience-lds-data-requirements-generate/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install forcedotcom/sf-skills experience-lds-data-requirements-generate
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/experience-lds-data-requirements-generate/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-lds-data-requirements-generate -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --path skills/experience-lds-data-requirements-generate
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/experience-lds-data-requirements-generate/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-lds-data-requirements-generate -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/experience-lds-data-requirements-generate/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- convert vague PRD notes into concrete Salesforce data requirements
- validate custom object and field API names before writing code
- choose between GraphQL wire adapters, UI API, and Apex
- turn bundle TODO comments into verified LDS specifications

## Example prompts
- define data requirements for this LWC
- recommend GraphQL vs UIAPI for this data need
- validate these Salesforce API names and spec out the LDS adapter

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

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name: experience-lds-data-requirements-generate
description: "Use when a Lightning Web Component data need is described in ambiguous natural language — turn \"get contact info\" or \"show account data\" into a clear, PRD-ready data-requirements spec. TRIGGER when the user says \"define data requirements for this LWC\", \"turn this PRD data section into validated object/field names\", \"recommend GraphQL vs UIAPI for this data need\", \"validate these Salesforce API names\", or \"spec out the LDS adapter for this component\", or references LWC bundle files (`.js`, `.js-meta.xml`) whose data layer is not yet specified. DO NOT TRIGGER when the data layer is already fully specified, when authoring the actual query or adapter code from a known spec, or when implementing an LWC end-to-end (use experience-lwc-generate)."
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
  domains: ["Experience", "Platform"]
  relatedSkills:
    - experience-lwc-generate
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# Generating LDS Data Requirements

Run a three-stage analyst workflow — requirements clarification, API name validation, API recommendation — so a downstream developer can implement a Lightning Data Service (LDS) solution without guessing.

## When to Use

- A PRD, Figma comment, or user ask mentions Salesforce data but objects/fields/operations are vague ("show customer info", "update the record", "list upcoming gigs").
- Before writing any `@wire`/Apex code for a new data need, or before handing the recommendation to a downstream implementation workflow.
- You inherited TODOs like `// TODO: fetch related records` and need to turn them into precise specs.

Do NOT use this skill when:
- The data need is already fully specified (object API name, field API names, operation type, scope).
- The component does not touch Salesforce data at all (UI-only, external REST, local state).

## Prerequisites

- The natural-language requirement (PRD snippet, user ask, or TODO comment).
- Access to the target org's Setup → Object Manager for confirming custom object/field API names.
- Awareness of the current GraphQL / UI API / Apex priority order (top-of-funnel is GraphQL when it can serve the read).

## Knowledge Bases

- [references/requirements-analysis.md](references/requirements-analysis.md) — Requirements Analysis Mode framework.
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