TrailblazerDX - All About Agents
This might be the official name, but AgentblazerDX would be more appropriate - if it wasn’t Agentforce, it wasn’t in. But which Agentforce? 2.0? No way, that’s last year’s agent. The new agent on the block is Agentforce 2dx - bigger, stronger, faster, and with improved developer tooling (hence the dx?) to allow billions of agents to be created at record speed. The pace, and hyperbole, of AI announcements shows no sign of dropping off - just watch the keynote when you have 90 minutes to spare.
There was a major focus on Agents as autonomous digital workers - Agentforce 2dx is the Digital Labor platform. Of course, Agentforce 2.0 was also the Digital Labor platform, but that was so 2024. Or Feb 2025 in fact, which was the scheduled date for Agentforce 2.0 to be fully released. Barely month to as the big cheese and then cast aside for a newer (reasoning) model - it’s tough at the top of the agentic tree. Digital Labor is considered to be a $6 trillion opportunity, although based on the rumoured pricing for OpenAI’s agents, we might get a smaller workforce than we expected!
The key announcement for me was the launch of Salesforce Developer Edition with Agentforce and Data Cloud enabled. I’ve always been of the opinion that Developer Edition was a master stroke from Salesforce, but it had started to lag a little, especially where features incurred a cost to Salesforce. While other options for orgs were available through Trailhead etc, they typically had aggressive expiry terms so you had to be focused and motivated to make best use of them. This is a game changer for Agentforce developers and I’m expecting to see a lot more community content now everyone can get access. Sign up at : sforce.co/AgentforceDE
Another big announcement outside of product was the Agentblazer community, although we’d seen this for a while with the new Agentblazer Status ranks - I’m pleased to say I’m an Innovator and looking forward to becoming legendary (also pleased to have broken 1k badges).
Agentblazer Status is replacing the AI Associate certification - another example of the risks of being an early AI adopter. Take comfort from the fact that while certs and badges may rise and fall, the learning stays with you!
And in an announcement that surprised nobody, AgentExchange is here. Pre-built Actions, Topics and Templates from trusted partners:
I think this announcement (along with others around the CLI, VS Code extensions, DevOps Center) is interesting as it shows Salesforce are confident about their current metadata model for agents and plan to stick by it for a while. If they thought major changes were around the corner they wouldn’t be making it available in so many locations. Maybe the pace of change is about to take a breath.