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# Metadata Grounding Capabilities

With metadata grounding, you discover, understand, and reuse metadata through natural language interactions. Metadata grounding capabilities accelerate development and customization by making your Salesforce ecosystem accessible and actionable.

Key capabilities include:

- **Discover Metadata:** Use natural language to search across your metadata. Powered by Data 360 hybrid search, find relevant objects, fields, and metadata components by using semantic and keyword searches via the Metadata Grounding Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. For example, search for "fields related to lease end date or contract expiration" or "Which objects track reservations or bookings?" without knowing exact API names or browsing through the setup.
- **Understand Metadata**: Get clear explanations of what metadata represents and how it functions in Salesforce. Understand the purpose of custom objects, the meaning of field names, security configurations, and how components solve specific business problems. Use this contextual understanding to make informed decisions about reusing existing metadata versus creating configurations. For example, ask “What does the Lease End Date field track?”
- **Reuse Metadata:** Use existing metadata patterns to create customizations quickly. Reference working configurations as templates for new fields, objects, or metadata components. Use existing patterns to configure other metadata types, such as building flows that reference specific fields, create page layouts with existing components, or write metadata validation rules based on your existing data model.

For more information on Metadata Grounding MCP Server, see [Metadata Grounding MCP Server (Beta)](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/hosted-mcp-servers/guide/metadata-grounding.html).