Agentforce 3: Salesforce’s Latest Bet on the Future of Agentic AI

The Gist

• Command and control. Agentforce 3.0 introduces a new Command Center with testing and telemetry for AI observability, governance, and performance tuning.
• Plug-and-play AI agents. Native support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows secure integration of external tools and workflows without code.
• Redefining hybrid work. Agentforce positions humans and AI agents as collaborative teammates with transparent oversight and flexible deployment options.

Over the past year, the landscape of Agentic AI has accelerated dramatically—and Salesforce has been racing to to set the pace of market.

Since unveiling Agentforce at Dreamforce last fall, the company has launched a rapid-fire series of upgrades: Agentforce 2.0 within months, followed by Agent 2DX, and now Agentforce 3. This latest release marks more than an iteration—it aims to define the full stack for Salesforce’s digital labor platform and the future of hybrid work.

Table of Contents

• From Hype to Impact: The Agentforce Evolution
• Maturing the Platform: Interoperability, Governance and Speed
• Enabling the Hybrid Workforce
• Why This Matters:

From Hype to Impact: The Agentforce Evolution

The promise of AI agents—autonomous digital workers embedded into business operations—has moved from experimentation to execution at many Salesforce customers. But Salesforce acknowledges there were challenges in translating AI agent potential into business outcomes. Too often, companies couldn’t see what agents were doing, couldn’t govern them effectively, and couldn’t evolve them quickly enough to meet shifting KPIs.

Agentforce 3.0 aims to address these blockers with the rest of the Agentic AI stack. At its core is a new Command Center that provides missing observability and control—enabling companies to measure, manage and optimize agent performance across use cases like sales, service and customer success. This upgrade also introduces agent testing and telemetry tools that can stream every session, allowing enterprises to backtest, debug and iterate agents in real time.

Maturing the Platform: Interoperability, Governance and Speed

One of Agentforce 3’s major innovations is native support for the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP)—a kind of universal translator for AI tools that enables plug-and-play interoperability across apps, data and workflows. With MCP, companies can integrate external tools securely without coding, enhancing agility while maintaining governance and control.

Agentforce also introduces Agent Exchange—a growing library of over 100 prebuilt industry actions designed to reduce time to value. Whether for a tire retailer like Goodyear automating service appointments or a media company like Grupo Globo boosting subscriber customer retention, Agentforce wraps AI around real business processes with minimal friction.

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Agentic AI Stack: Key Components in Agentforce 3

This table outlines the core capabilities Salesforce is offering in Agentforce 3 to support scalable and governable AI agents.

Enabling the Hybrid Workforce

Agentforce 3 attempts to redefine the concept of a hybrid workforce—not just people collaborating remotely, but humans and AI agents working in tandem. As EVP & GM of Salesforce AI Adam Evans put it today, “We’ve unified agents, data, apps and metadata to create a digital labor platform.” This platform doesn’t replace workers—it augments them, helping organizations build the new skills, oversight and workflows required for AI-powered performance.

Crucially, Agentforce isn’t locked behind complex pricing or infrastructure. Its usage-based model—10 cents per action or unlimited pricing—lowers the barrier to entry and encourages experimentation at scale. And it's delivering results: companies are reducing case handle times by 15%, resolving 70% of routine chats autonomously, and increasing retention by over 20%.

Why This Matters:

Is Agentic AI Adoption Growing?

AI agent adoption is surging. According to Salesforce's upcoming Slack Workflow Index, usage has jumped 233% in just six months, with over 8,000 customers already deploying Agentforce. But as agent usage grows, so does the need for visibility, governance and rapid iteration. Agentforce 3 delivers exactly that.

With this release, Salesforce has moved beyond technical demonstrations into business transformation—arming organizations with the tools to see what agents are doing, optimize their behavior, and unlock strategic value. In the race to operationalize AI, Agentforce 3 isn’t just keeping pace. It’s setting the standard.

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Is Agentic AI Adoption Slowing? Salesforce Is All In

According to forthcoming research from Dresner Advisory (editor's note: the author's company), just 5% of companies have deployed Agentic AI into production. That demonstrates how early—and how uncertain—this journey still is.

Yet Salesforce’s rapid maturation of Agentforce offers a glimpse into what success can look like: actionable interoperability, real-time visibility and measurable business results.

As every software vendor rushes to craft an agentic AI strategy, the true winners won’t just offer powerful platforms—they’ll make adoption intuitive and guide customers in reimagining how augmentation reshapes roles, teams and the very fabric of the hybrid workforce.