Salesforce Flow

The Salesforce Flow API enables developers to interact with and manage Salesforce Flow automation processes programmatically. This includes creating, updating, querying, and executing flows within Salesforce using the REST API, Tooling API, and Invocable Actions framework.

Salesforce Flow publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Flow Definitions API, Flow Interviews API, and Invocable Actions API. Tagged areas include Automation, Business Process, CRM, Flow, and Process Builder.

The Salesforce Flow catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Salesforce Flow’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, engineering blog, and 17 more developer resources.

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57.9/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessEnterpriseSelf serve

5 APIs

AutomationBusiness ProcessCRMFlowProcess BuilderSalesforceWorkflow

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 57.9/100 · strong

Contract Quality 16.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13

Governance 8.3 / 12

Discoverability 8.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Salesforce Flow Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Salesforce Flow Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Flow Definition Schema

JSONSchema

Flow Interview Schema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Trailhead Learning

Trailhead Learning

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Capabilities

Capabilities

Source (apis.yml)

name: Salesforce Flow
description: The Salesforce Flow API enables developers to interact with and manage Salesforce Flow automation processes programmatically.
  This includes creating, updating, querying, and executing flows within Salesforce using the REST API, Tooling API, and Invocable
  Actions framework.
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.salesforce.com/content/dam/web/en_us/www/images/nav/logo-salesforce.svg
url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
created: 2024-01-15 00:00:00+00:00
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.18'
tags:
- Automation
- Business Process
- CRM
- Flow
- Process Builder
- Salesforce
- Workflow
apis:
- name: Salesforce Tooling API (Flow)
  description: Tooling API endpoints for managing Flow definitions and metadata. Supports deployment, retrieval, and management
    of Flow versions.
  image: https://www.salesforce.com/content/dam/web/en_us/www/images/nav/logo-salesforce.svg
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_tooling.meta/api_tooling/
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0/tooling
  tags:
  - Flow Definition
  - Metadata
  - Tooling
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_tooling.meta/api_tooling/tooling_api_objects_flow.htm
- name: Salesforce Flow Interviews API
  description: API for executing and managing Flow interviews (instances). Provides endpoints to start, resume, pause, and
    monitor flow execution state.
  image: https://www.salesforce.com/content/dam/web/en_us/www/images/nav/logo-salesforce.svg
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_actions_invocable_flow.htm
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0/actions/custom/flow
  tags:
  - Execution
  - Flow Interview
  - Runtime
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_actions_invocable_flow.htm
- aid: salesforce-flow:salesforce-flow-flow-definitions-api
  name: Salesforce Flow Flow Definitions API
  description: Operations for managing Flow metadata and definitions
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0
  tags:
  - Flow Definitions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/salesforce-flow-flow-definitions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_oauth_and_connected_apps.htm
- aid: salesforce-flow:salesforce-flow-flow-interviews-api
  name: Salesforce Flow Flow Interviews API
  description: Operations for executing and managing Flow interviews
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0
  tags:
  - Flow Interviews
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/salesforce-flow-flow-interviews-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_oauth_and_connected_apps.htm
- aid: salesforce-flow:salesforce-flow-invocable-actions-api
  name: Salesforce Flow Invocable Actions API
  description: Operations for triggering invocable flows as actions
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0
  tags:
  - Invocable Actions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/salesforce-flow-invocable-actions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_oauth_and_connected_apps.htm
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/salesforce-flow/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/salesforce-flow-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/salesforce-flow-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/salesforce-flow-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/salesforce-flow-scopes.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/flow-builder
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_oauth_and_connected_apps.htm
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.salesforce_app_limits_cheatsheet.meta/salesforce_app_limits_cheatsheet/salesforce_app_limits_platform_api.htm
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.salesforce.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/agreements/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.flow.meta/flow/
- type: Trailhead Learning
  url: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/flow-builder
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/salesforce
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/salesforce-flow-rules.yml
- type: Capabilities
  url: capabilities/flow-automation.yaml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/salesforce-flow-flow-definition-schema.json
  title: Flow Definition Schema
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/salesforce-flow-flow-interview-schema.json
  title: Flow Interview Schema
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/salesforce-flow-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/salesforce-flow-vocabulary.yml
- url: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/feed
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
include: []