Shift from UI-first to agent-first with Headless 360. Learn how to expose your Apex logic as Salesforce Hosted MCP tools, allowing AI agents like Claude or Cursor to discover and invoke your business intelligence directly via the Model Context Protocol.

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Salesforce's Headless 360 initiative lets developers expose custom Apex business logic as Hosted MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools that AI agents like Claude or Cursor can discover and invoke directly — no UI required. The post walks through writing an Apex @InvocableMethod for pipeline intelligence, registering it as an MCP Server via metadata, configuring OAuth via an External Client App, and connecting Claude to query Salesforce data conversationally. Key design guidance covers writing agent-readable tool descriptions, using computed fields instead of raw data, fuzzy account matching, and enforcing record-level security with USER_MODE SOQL.

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