Comprehensive and Detailed In-Depth Explanation:
In Salesforce Agentforce, prompt templates are used to generate dynamic responses or field values by leveraging an LLM, often with grounding data from Salesforce records or external sources. The scenario describes a Field Generation prompt template that fails intermittently with token limit errors, indicating that the issue is tied to exceeding the LLM’s token capacity (e.g., input + output tokens). The random nature of these failures suggests variability in the token count across different records, which is directly addressed by Option B.
Prompt templates in Agentforce can be dynamic, meaning they pull in record-specific data (e.g., customer names, descriptions, or other fields) to generate output. Since the data varies by record—some records might have short text fields while others have lengthy ones—the total number of tokens (words, characters, or subword units processed by the LLM) fluctuates. When the token count exceeds the LLM’s limit (e.g., 4,096 tokens for some models), the process fails, but this only happens for records with higher token-generating data, explaining the randomness.
Option A: Switching to a "Flex" template type might sound plausible, but Salesforce documentation does not define "Flex" as a specific template type for handling token variability in this context (there are Flow-based templates, but they’re unrelated to token limits). This option is a distractor and not a verified solution.
Option C: The LLM’s token processing capacity is fixed per model (e.g., a set limit like 128,000 tokens for advanced models) and does not vary with user demand. Demand might affect performance or availability, but not the token limit itself.
Option B is the correct answer because it accurately identifies the dynamic nature of the prompt template as the root cause of variable token counts leading to random failures.
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