# platform-encryption-configure

Skill for generating Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption metadata and evaluating key management architecture models.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3600 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/platform-encryption-configure/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/platform-encryption-configure

## What it does

This skill generates deployable Salesforce metadata for Shield Platform Encryption. When encrypting fields, it creates `*.field-meta.xml` files with either deterministic or probabilistic encryption schemes based on filtering needs. It also creates `*.settings-meta.xml` files, covering `PlatformEncryptionSettings` and `EncryptionKeySettings` configurations.

The workflow separates advice from file creation. Inquiries regarding BYOK, EKM, or Cache-Only models produce a single markdown answer file without generating companion XML files. Metadata structures require `minApiVersion: 62.0`.

Legacy Classic Encryption with `EncryptedText` fields is not supported because it operates under a different platform subsystem.

## Requirements
- Works with: Salesforce

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-encryption-configure -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-encryption-configure -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-encryption-configure -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install forcedotcom/sf-skills platform-encryption-configure
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/platform-encryption-configure/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-encryption-configure -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --path skills/platform-encryption-configure
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-encryption-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/platform-encryption-configure/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Generate encrypted field metadata with deterministic schemes for SOQL filtering
- Configure `EncryptionKeySettings` for external key management setups
- Assess trade-offs between BYOK, EKM, and Cache-Only key models
- Review tenant secret rotation and destruction rules in Salesforce

## Example prompts
- Configure deterministic encryption for the `SSN__c` field on `Contact`.
- Explain the operational differences between BYOK and Cache-Only keys in a markdown doc.
- Generate an `EncryptionKey.settings-meta.xml` file with external key management enabled.

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

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---
name: platform-encryption-configure
description: "Configure Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption — generate deployable encryption settings and encrypted-field metadata, and answer key-model and lifecycle questions. TRIGGER when: user wants to turn on deterministic encryption, encrypt a field, set up Cache-Only Keys, External Key Management, or replay detection, or mentions Shield Platform Encryption, encryption at rest, deterministic vs probabilistic encryption, encryptionScheme, PlatformEncryptionSettings, EncryptionKeySettings, BYOK, BYOKMS, tenant secrets, key rotation, or .settings-meta.xml / .field-meta.xml for encryption — even when they don't say 'Shield'. SKIP when: user needs a generic custom field with no encryption (use platform-custom-field-generate), needs the raw Metadata API type reference (use platform-metadata-api-context-get), or asks about Classic Encryption (encrypted text fields), which is a different feature. Use this skill for any Platform Encryption configuration, field-encryption, or key-model question."
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
  domains: ["Platform"]
  minApiVersion: "62.0"
  relatedSkills:
    - "platform-custom-field-generate"
    - "platform-metadata-api-context-get"
---

# Configure Platform Encryption

Configures Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption by generating the metadata that turns it on and choosing the right settings: which encryption scheme a field should use, which key-management model fits a requirement, and how the tenant-secret lifecycle works. This is a **hybrid** skill — it emits deployable `*.settings-meta.xml` / `*.field-meta.xml` where Platform Encryption exposes a real Metadata API surface, and returns grounded guidance where the operation is UI/REST-only.

## Scope

- **In scope**: choosing and applying `encryptionScheme` on a field; enabling deterministic encryption, Cache-Only Keys, External Key Management, and replay detection via `PlatformEncryptionSettings` / `EncryptionKeySettings`; explaining BYOK / BYOKMS / EKM / Cache-Only key models; tenant-secret rotation and destruction semantics; the query behavior of encrypted fields.
- **Out of scope**: a plain custom field with no encryption (use `platform-custom-field-generate`); the raw Metadata API field reference (use `platform-metadata-api-context-get`); Classic Encryption (`EncryptedText` fields) — that is a separate, legacy feature; deploying/pushing metadata to an org (that belongs to a deploy lifecycle skill).

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