# service-de-headless-channel-configure

Drives an Enhanced Messaging channel to an activated state in the target org: insert, route, consent, activate. Useful when the Meta, LINE and Apple setup popups get in the way.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 651 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/service-de-headless-channel-configure/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/service-de-headless-channel-configure

## What it does

The skill takes a channel type (`WhatsApp`, `Line`, `AppleBusinessChat`, `Facebook`, `Text`) plus its type-specific inputs and returns an activated `MessagingChannel`. It first gates on the Enhanced Messaging terms — a blocking step, and a decline ends the run before any org work. Then four stages follow: insert through `service-de-channel-create`, routing with `SessionHandlerId` pointed at an Omni-Channel queue, consent configuration, and activation via a PATCH of `MessagingChannelUsage.DeploymentStatus` to `Provisioning`.

Every stage is idempotent. If a run dies halfway, the next call detects existing state and skips what already succeeded. The channel type is prompted upfront when missing from the request; the queue choice comes up later, during routing.

The orchestrator is built to run all stages in a single response with no stops in between. That breaks if you reach for it to do one step: for a single stage of an already-inserted channel, use the leaf skills `service-de-channel-activate`, `service-de-channel-settings-configure` and `service-de-channel-routing-configure`. You need `sf` 2.0.0 or newer and API version 67.0.

## Requirements
- Works with: Salesforce

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill service-de-headless-channel-configure -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill service-de-headless-channel-configure -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill service-de-headless-channel-configure -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install forcedotcom/sf-skills service-de-headless-channel-configure
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/service-de-headless-channel-configure/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill service-de-headless-channel-configure -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --path skills/service-de-headless-channel-configure
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill service-de-headless-channel-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/service-de-headless-channel-configure/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- stand up a WhatsApp channel from nothing to active
- skip the in-org Meta, LINE and Apple setup popups
- point routing at an Omni-Channel queue
- pick up a half-finished setup after a failure
- move consent from ImplicitOptIn to ExplicitOptIn

## Example prompts
- Set up a WhatsApp channel in the target org end to end
- Add a Line channel and activate it
- Resume the Facebook channel setup after a failure

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

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---
name: service-de-headless-channel-configure
description: "Top-level orchestrator: given a messaging channel type and its inputs, produces an activated Enhanced `MessagingChannel` in the target org — without the Meta/LINE/Apple setup popups. Prompts for `{MESSAGE_TYPE}` if not supplied, then sequences insert → route → consent → activate via the type-agnostic dispatcher (`service-de-channel-create`) plus the shared routing/consent/activation leaves. Resumes from partial state on re-run. Use to set up an Enhanced channel (WhatsApp, Facebook, LINE, Apple, SMS) end-to-end, bypassing in-org setup popups. Do not use for a single stage of an already-inserted channel — use the matching leaf skill (`service-de-channel-activate`, `service-de-channel-settings-configure`, `service-de-channel-routing-configure`) instead."
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
  minApiVersion: "67.0"
  domains: ["Service"]
  cliTools:
    - tool: ["sf"]
      semver: ">=2.0.0"
  relatedSkills:
    - "service-de-channel-activate"
    - "service-de-channel-create"
    - "service-de-channel-routing-configure"
    - "service-de-channel-settings-configure"
    - "service-de-waba-integrate"
---

# Headless Channel Setup (type-agnostic)

## What this skill does

Takes a channel type (`WhatsApp` | `Line` | `AppleBusinessChat` | `Facebook` | `Text`) plus its type-specific inputs and drives it to an activated `MessagingChannel`. It first gates on the Enhanced Messaging Terms and Conditions, then runs four steps:

0. **Accept Terms and Conditions** — renders the Enhanced Messaging disclaimer and requires the user to certify they have authority to bind their org, mirroring the in-org "Add a Channel" wizard. Blocking — a decline ends the run before any org work. *(Stage 0.5, in this skill)*
1. **Insert the channel** — invokes `service-de-channel-create`, which handles the per-type third-party prereq internally (e.g. WhatsApp's `service-de-waba-integrate` runs inside `service-de-channel-create`). *(skill: `service-de-channel-create`)*
2. **Configure routing** — sets `SessionHandlerId` to an Omni-Channel Queue (pick existing or create new). Message-type-agnostic. *(skill: `service-de-channel-routing-configure`)*
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