Invoke a Salesforce autolaunched Flow via the REST Actions API

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Verified steps

  1. Obtain an access token via the JWT Bearer or connected-app OAuth flow; confirm the token is for the correct org instance URL.
  2. Identify the autolaunched Flow's API name (e.g., MyFlow) — it must not require a screen and must be Active in Setup.
  3. POST to /services/data/vXX.0/actions/custom/flow/MyFlow with a JSON body containing 'inputs': [{'inputVariables': [{...}]}]; the vXX.0 version must match your org's API version.
  4. Inspect the response array: each element has 'isSuccess', 'actionName', 'outputValues', and 'errors'; surface any errors before treating the invocation as complete.
  5. Handle the 400 INVALID_TYPE error that occurs when passing a variable whose type mismatches the Flow variable's declared Apex type.
  6. If the Flow performs DML, confirm it is not invoked inside an existing transaction that has already hit DML limits, or chain via Queueable.

Known gotchas

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