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The Unification

AgentExchange merges AppExchange, Slack Marketplace, and the Agentforce ecosystem into one marketplace. More than 10,000 Salesforce apps, 2,600 Slack apps, and 1,000+ Agentforce agents — including sub-agents, tools, and MCP servers — are searchable in one catalog as of April 2026. The legacy URLs redirect; the listing schema is a superset of AppExchange’s, with new fields for agent_type, model_dependencies, data_classes_required, and cost_per_invocation. Existing AppExchange listings carry over without re-submission, but agent-eligible products must add the new metadata to appear in agent search.

Buyer Experience

Integrated billing, semantic search, one-click activation. Previous friction — AppExchange for apps, Slack Marketplace separately, third-party sites for agents — collapses into a single procurement surface. Enterprise buyers get a unified PO line, a single invoice path through the existing Salesforce contract, and Permission-Set-aware install previews so a security admin can see exactly what the install will grant before clicking Install.

Search: "AR collections agent for SaaS"
  Filters: certified-only | data-class:confidential | model:in-trust-layer | budget:<$0.05/call
  Result: ranked list with capability badges, design-partner logos, eval scores

The semantic search index is built on Data Cloud vector storage and updated nightly from listing metadata plus customer review embeddings.

Vetting Position

Salesforce positions AgentExchange as trusted — vetted for security, tested against platform standards. The trust angle is explicit and operational, not just marketing. Agents with questionable posture don’t list. The certification stack is layered: AppExchange Security Review for code, the new Agent Security Review for prompt-injection and excessive-agency defenses, and an optional Trust Layer Verified badge for agents that prove all model calls flow through the Einstein Trust Layer.

Timeline

AgentExchange went live in April 2026. Agentic search, intelligent app comparisons, and the streamlined Agentforce Builder Installer arrive fall 2026 alongside the Winter ‘27 release. Contextual Slackbot discovery follows in winter 2026. Roll-out is staged, not bang-and-done — partners can ship a basic listing now and add agent metadata as their builds harden.

What This Means for Buyers

Procurement teams can stop maintaining a parallel “AI vendor” tracker. Security review burden drops because the marketplace publishes the certification artefacts. The catch: lock-in risk grows because Agent Fabric routing, billing, and audit increasingly assume agents come from this single source.

What This Means for ISVs

Listing here is no longer optional if you sell agents into the Salesforce base. The semantic-search ranking rewards rich metadata, design-partner proof, and observable eval scores — not just keywords. Invest in those fields before traffic ramps post-Dreamforce.

What to Do This Week

Audit your current AppExchange listing, add the new agent-eligible metadata fields if applicable, and book a slot for the agent security review queue.

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