Bulk API 2.0 Patterns

What it does

This skill captures operational patterns and runbook guidance for building robust Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 pipelines. It explains the end-to-end job lifecycle (create → upload → UploadComplete → poll → results), how to handle partial row failures, multipart vs staged uploads, locator-based pagination for query jobs, and orchestration strategies for ordered parent/child loads. Concrete procedural advice and checklists help integration engineers avoid common production pitfalls.

When to use it

Use this skill when designing or hardening middleware, ETL connectors, or integration jobs that rely on Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 — for example, when jobs remain stuck in Open, when you need to retry only failed rows without duplicating successes, or when extracting large query results that require Sforce-Locator pagination.

What's included

• Scripts: present (repository contains scripts for sample flows)
• References: present (reference materials and related skills in repo)
• Instructions: detailed procedural guidance on job state transitions, retry scopes, pagination with Sforce-Locator, and a review checklist for production readiness.

Compatible agents

Well-suited for code-capable agents and developer assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, and similar) that can read markdown and produce integration code or runbooks.