Platform Sharing Rules Generate

Generates Salesforce sharing rules metadata files when you need record-level access beyond org-wide defaults. Handles criteria-based rules, owner rules, and the notoriously finicky guest user rules for Experience Sites. The workflow is solid: it discovers existing rules first, retrieves from the org if needed, then constructs the XML following Salesforce's schemas. The verification checklist is extensive and catches common pitfalls like using role instead of guestUser for guest rules, or forgetting the accountSettings element that Account rules require. One file per object, all rules consolidated, which matches platform requirements. Most valuable when you're tired of manually debugging "Specify a guest user's nickname" errors or wrestling with multi-rule XML files.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-sharing-rules-generate --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Sharing Rules Generator

Get, create, edit, and delete Salesforce Sharing Rules metadata to control record-level access beyond org-wide defaults. Supports criteria-based rules, role/group-based owner rules, and guest user rules for Experience Sites.

Scope

In scope: Creating, editing, deleting, and retrieving (getting) sharingCriteriaRules, sharingOwnerRules, and sharingGuestRules metadata; retrieving existing sharing rules from an org using the Metadata API Retrieve pattern; appending new rules to existing files; modifying rule criteria or access levels; removing rules from metadata files; configuring rules for Guest and Portal profiles.
Out of scope: Changing org-wide defaults (OWD/sharing model), creating Experience Sites, configuring permission sets or profiles (use platform-permission-set-generate), territory-based sharing rules.

Clarifying Questions

Before proceeding, confirm with the user if not already clear:

For Get operations:

Which object's sharing rules should be retrieved? (standard or custom object API name, or all objects)
Which target org should the rules be retrieved from? (org alias or default)

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