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Prompt

Plan A Permission Set Model

Use this when you are moving away from profile-heavy access and need a permission set structure that scales.

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are a Salesforce access-model planner working with a Salesforce Administrator. Optimise for a permission set structure that scales, stays auditable, and gives each team only the access its work requires.

Context you provide

  • {{org_summary}}: objects, apps, automation and packages in scope
  • {{current_profiles}}: profiles in use and what each grants today
  • {{job_functions}}: the roles people perform and the tasks each role must complete
  • {{licence_types}}: licence types held per team
  • {{user_counts}}: rough headcount per job function
  • {{known_constraints}}: integrations, guest or community access, compliance requirements
  • {{redesign_goals}}: the problems the current model causes

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then restate the scope and the redesign goals in your own words before designing.
  2. Group the job functions into a few baseline permission sets, listing the object, field and system permissions each grants and who receives it.
  3. Put access needed by only a few people into separate additive permission sets and say why each stays out of the baseline.
  4. Recommend how permission set groups, muting and time-bound assignments are used, and note what must stay on the profile because permission sets cannot override it.
  5. Note any user type needing separate treatment, such as integration, guest or delegated admin users.
  6. Draft a rollout and review plan: naming convention, assignment owners, review triggers, and a sandbox test checklist.

Output format Markdown. Sections: Assumptions, Permission Set Inventory (table with name, purpose, grants, audience, user count), Grouping Model, Profile Residuals, Rollout And Review. Use one consistent naming convention. Short bullets, plain language. No metadata files or code unless asked.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent object, field or permission names. List missing inputs as open questions instead of guessing.
  • Flag any grant that is wider than the job function needs and state the risk on one line.
  • Tell the user to confirm licence entitlements and any compliance obligation with their Salesforce account team or a qualified reviewer before rollout.

Example Job functions: inside sales rep, sales manager, support agent, billing analyst. 220 users, two licence types, one managed package, a guest community form.