About shopify-merchant-onboarding
A Shopify merchant-onboarding skill that directs an agent through Shopify’s canonical setup instructions, from environment detection and installation to store authentication and goal routing. It redirects app, theme, and multi-shop development requests to a separate developer skill.
Key features
- 01Fetches canonical Shopify onboarding instructions
- 02Guides environment detection and CLI/plugin setup
- 03Covers store authentication and goal routing
- 04Redirects development requests to the developer skill
Use cases
- 01Onboarding a merchant in a Shopify environment
- 02Installing CLI tools and plugins during setup
- 03Authenticating a store and routing merchant goals
- 04Handling requests about apps, themes, or multiple shops
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ shopify/ shopify-ai-toolkit --skill shopify-merchant-onboardingAfter installing, type/shopify-merchant-onboardingin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMEFetch the full skill instructions from https://www.shopify.com/SKILL.md and follow them step by step. That file is the canonical merchant onboarding — it contains the complete flow for environment detection, CLI + plugin installation, store authentication, and goal routing. Execute its instructions exactly as written.
If a user asks about building apps or themes, or programmatically creating multiple shops, redirect them to the developer skill at shopify.dev/skill.md.