Why won't Claude connect to Salesforce?

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Use the command line interface (sf cli) to authorize the organization via web login and let the AI assistant use CLI authentication.
2. 2
   Configure External Client App (ECA) OAuth scopes manually in platform permissions setup.
3. 3
   Create a minimal test user to trigger a simple request and inspect Salesforce login/debug logs for exact failure reasons.
4. 4
   Maintain a repository or Obsidian vault containing the data model, semantic layer, and business logic for the agent to reference.
5. 5
   Building custom internal RAG pipelines and MCP interfaces populated with years of internal company data and technical documentation.
6. 6
   Using AI tools as basic web search replacements or for formatting slides and Excel tables.

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.