Agent Script Decoded: How to Debug Agent Script
Summary
Building intelligent agents with Agent Script can be tricky when your agent behaves unexpectedly. This explains the Agent Script execution flow in detail and shows how to debug issues using tools like Agentforce Builder and Agentforce DX. You can trace conversation turns, inspect variable changes, and analyze topic routing decisions. The article also introduces an AI-assisted debugging approach with Agentforce Vibes that simplifies diagnosing and fixing complex issues by analyzing JSON execution traces. This empowers Salesforce teams to build reliable Agentforce agents through better understanding and practical debugging workflows.
Takeaways
- Understand the Agent Script execution flow to pinpoint where bugs occur.
- Use Agentforce Builder’s Interaction Summary and Trace tabs for detailed conversation debugging.
- Leverage Agentforce DX extension in VS Code to inspect raw execution JSON and variable states.
- Apply Agentforce Vibes as an AI pair programmer to analyze execution traces and suggest fixes.
- Keep agent variable state and topic routing logic separate from prompt text for clarity.
You built an Agentforce agent with Agent Script . You test it—and something’s off. Maybe the agent routes to the wrong topic, skips an action you expected to run, or replies in a way that doesn’t match your instructions. The good news: each conversation turn produces a trace you can use to debug with evidence. You can see which topic was selected, which actions were available or invoked, what variables changed, and where the reasoning loop spent its time. In this post, we’ll start by understanding Agent Script execution flow. Then we’ll walk through how to use Agentforce Builder and Agentforce DX to debug Agent Script. After that, you’ll learn a Vibe debugging workflow using Agentforce Vibes , where you paste the JSON execution trace, describe what you expected versus what happened, and use the suggestions to refine your Agent Script. Understand Agent Script Execution Flow To effectively debug agents built with Agent Script, you need to first understand how execution actually flows.