# experience-portal-create

Provisions a new Experience Cloud site in Salesforce through the headless-360 MCP server: employee, partner or customer portals. Useful when you need a site from scratch.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1300 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-portal-create/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/experience-portal-create

## What it does

The skill provisions a new Digital Experience site (formerly Communities) in Salesforce. Every call goes through the headless-360 MCP server: `discover`, then `describe`, then `dispatch` for writes or `dispatch_readonly` for reads. The Salesforce CLI, `curl` and other HTTP clients are off limits — that dispatcher is the only channel to the org.

Before it starts, the skill asks about portal type, name and URL prefix. For employee and self-service portals the default `siteType` is `AURA`; pick `LWR` only when you explicitly want a Lightning Web Runtime site. One gotcha: paths passed to `dispatch` must carry the full `/services/data/vXX.0/...` prefix, otherwise you get `400 ROUTE_NOT_FOUND` — headless-360 does not inject the API version for you.

The self-service API requires `guestEmbeddedServiceConfigId`, an Embedded Service Deployment config for guest users. If you have not created a deployment yet, do that in Setup → Embedded Service Deployments first. The skill also activates the Network (`status: Live`), adds member profiles and publishes Experience Builder pages, then writes a portal-creation report as its last step. Deep page and branding customization sits outside its scope.

## Requirements
- Works with: Salesforce

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --path skills/experience-portal-create
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-portal-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/skills/experience-portal-create/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- stand up an employee self-service portal from scratch
- provision a PRM partner portal with a specific template
- create a customer community on Aura or LWR
- wire MIAW into the portal at creation time
- take the site end to end: activate the Network and publish pages

## Example prompts
- Create an employee service portal with experience-portal-create
- Set up a new LWR partner site and wire MIAW at creation
- Provision a customer community named Support Hub with prefix supporthub

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

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```text
---
name: experience-portal-create
description: "Create / provision / set up a NEW Digital Experience (Communities) / Experience Cloud site — employee service, IT support, help desk, HR, customer, and partner portals — via the headless-360 MCP site-creation APIs. Use whenever a user asks to create/provision/set up a portal, site, or community, e.g.: 'create an employee service portal', 'create an IT Support Portal', 'create an Agentforce Employee Center', including wiring MIAW (Messaging for In-App/Web) at create. This is the site-CREATION skill and OWNS provisioning a new Aura OR LWR Experience Builder site from scratch — trigger it even when the user says 'Experience Builder site' or 'LWR site', as long as a NEW site is wanted. It always writes a portal-creation report as its final step (never ad hoc via CLI) and never makes a legacy Tabs+Visualforce site. DO NOT TRIGGER only for modifying an EXISTING site's pages/routes/theme/branding/guest-access metadata (experience-lwr-site-generate), existing-site customization (experience-ui-bundle), CMS, Commerce."
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
  domains: ["Experience"]
  minApiVersion: "67.0"
  relatedSkills:
    - "experience-lwr-site-generate"
  mcpTools:
    headless-360:
      tools: ["describe", "discover", "dispatch", "dispatch_readonly"]
      semver: ">=1.0.0"
  cliTools:
    - tool: ["sf"]
      semver: ">=2.0.0"
allowed-tools: |
  Read AskUserQuestion Bash
  mcp__headless-360__discover
  mcp__headless-360__describe
  mcp__headless-360__dispatch
  mcp__headless-360__dispatch_readonly
---

# Create Digital Experience Portal

Create a new Digital Experience (formerly Communities) portal/site in Salesforce. Supports employee service portals, partner portals (PRM), and general customer communities.

**Every operation runs through the headless-360 MCP server** (`mcp__headless-360__discover` →
`mcp__headless-360__describe` → `mcp__headless-360__dispatch` / `mcp__headless-360__dispatch_readonly`).
Do **not** use the Salesforce CLI (its `api request`, `data query`, or `org open` subcommands), the project-codey MCP
server, raw `curl`, or any other HTTP client — `dispatch`/`dispatch_readonly` is the only way this
skill talks to the org. See `references/mcp-invocation.md` for the exact call shapes.

## Scope
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