# Platform Trial Org Create

Use this skill to create a Salesforce trial, developer, or Trialforce org against an...

- Repository: https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills (1134 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-30
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-trial-org-create -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-trial-org-create -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-trial-org-create -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill platform-trial-org-create -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add forcedotcom/sf-skills`

## Description

Use this skill to create a Salesforce trial, developer, or Trialforce org against an already-authenticated host org, the same way a developer/Trialforce web signup form provisions one. INVOKE when the user asks to: create a trial org, sign up a new trial or developer org, provision a Trialforce org from a template, or check the status of a trial-org signup they started. Trigger phrases: 'create a trial org', 'sign up a trial org', 'spin up a dev org', 'Trialforce signup', 'provision trial from template', 'check my trial org signup status'. Do NOT use for scratch orgs (use dx-org-manage) or for checking trial expiration dates of existing orgs (use dx-org-trial-expiration-check).

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

## What this skill does

Creates a Salesforce **trial org** by inserting a `SignupRequest` sObject with the `sf` CLI, the same request the Trialforce/developer **web signup form** issues under the hood. There is no bespoke signup endpoint: signup = inserting a `SignupRequest` (key prefix `0SR`) against an authenticated **host org** (a Trialforce Source Org / Env Hub / partner org that is entitled to create trial orgs).

The flow is **two CLI calls**: (1) create the `SignupRequest`, (2) read it back to pick up the assigned org id (creation is asynchronous, the org id appears shortly after the insert).

## Prerequisites, confirm before executing

1. **Authenticated host org, always confirm which one, explicitly.** You are signing up *from* an authenticated host org, not anonymously. The `sf` CLI operates against an org you have already logged into once (`sf org login web`, or `sf org login`).

   **Always pass an explicit `--target-org` (`-o`) with the host org's alias or username on every command, and confirm the target with the user before creating**, even if a default org is configured. Creating a `SignupRequest` is a real provisioning action; do not let it run against whatever org happens to be the default.

The rest: https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills/blob/HEAD/plugins/builder/dx-org-lifecycle/skills/platform-trial-org-create/SKILL.md