--- title: Agent Script Decoded: How to Debug Agent Script | daily.dev description: A guide to debugging Agentforce agents built with Agent Script. Covers the execution flow model (deterministic instruction phase vs. non-deterministic LLM... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agent-script-decoded-how-to-debug-agent-script-3arjaaqei twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agent Script Decoded: How to Debug Agent Script | daily.dev og:description: A guide to debugging Agentforce agents built with Agent Script. Covers the execution flow model (deterministic instruction phase vs. non-deterministic LLM... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agent-script-decoded-how-to-debug-agent-script-3arjaaqei og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3ARjAAqEI.png og:image:alt: Agent Script Decoded: How to Debug Agent Script og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agent Script Decoded: How to Debug Agent Script **[Salesforce Developers Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/salesforcedevs)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A guide to debugging Agentforce agents built with Agent Script. Covers the execution flow model (deterministic instruction phase vs. non-deterministic LLM reasoning), then walks through three debugging approaches: using the Interaction Summary and Trace panels in Agentforce Builder, using the Agent Tracer tab in the Agentforce DX VS Code extension, and a 'vibe debugging' workflow where you paste the JSON execution trace into Agentforce Vibes (or other AI coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor) to get AI-assisted diagnosis and code suggestions. Key mental models include understanding that start_agent always routes first each turn, that prompt text accumulates separately from logic, and that multi-turn bugs often live in variable state transitions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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