platform-custom-setting-generate

Salesforce Custom Setting Generator and Validator

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

• Create a Hierarchy or List custom setting
• Generate custom setting metadata XML
• Add or validate fields on an existing custom setting
• Populate custom setting values (these are data, not metadata — see Section 6)
• Troubleshoot custom setting deployment errors

A trigger bypass / kill switch is a Custom Setting — not Apex and not a __mdt. When the user wants a switch admins can flip to turn behavior on or off — "disable my Account triggers during a data load", a feature toggle, a maintenance-mode flag — generate only a hierarchy custom setting with a Checkbox field (e.g. Disable_Triggers__c / Bypass__c). Do not author the Apex trigger, handler, or test that reads it, and do not model it as a Custom Metadata Type: the per-profile/per-user override a bypass flag needs is exactly what a hierarchy custom setting gives you and a __mdt does not. The Apex that checks the flag is the developer's to write — this skill generates the setting only.