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shopify-onboarding-dev — Codex skill: start building on Shopify

Walks a developer from nothing to a working Shopify setup: installs the CLI, wires up the AI toolkit, then asks what you want to build.

Install into Codex · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓ 
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill shopify-onboarding-dev -a codex
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What shopify-onboarding-dev does

The skill kicks in when you ask your agent to start building on Shopify — an app, a theme, a dev store, a partner account. It silently detects the client from system context (Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI) and only asks when it genuinely can't tell.

Next it runs shopify version. If the CLI is missing, it installs it through npm, pnpm, yarn or bun: npm install -g @shopify/cli@latest. On macOS without a Node package manager there's a Homebrew route. Then it installs the AI toolkit for the detected client and asks what you want to build, handing the request to a more specific skill such as shopify-admin or shopify-liquid.

When an install fails, the skill reports the exact error and stops. It won't rewrite or assemble install commands on its own. Unrecognized clients aren't supported at all. This one is for developers: questions about products, orders or customers in a live store are out of scope.

What it helps with

  • get Shopify CLI installed and verified
  • hook the AI toolkit into your editor
  • create a dev store and a partner account
  • scaffold an app or a theme
  • move from onboarding to Admin API or Liquid work

Example prompts for the agent

  • I want to start building on Shopify — what do I need to install?
  • Help me scaffold a Shopify app from scratch
  • Set up my environment for Shopify theme development

How to install shopify-onboarding-dev

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add openai/plugins --skill shopify-onboarding-dev -a codex

2Manually: put the files in place

.agents/skills/shopify-onboarding-dev/SKILL.md

For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

Step by step, with commands for each platform: Codex skills: how to install, where they live, how to call them

Questions about shopify-onboarding-dev

How do I install shopify-onboarding-dev in Claude?

Run npx skills add openai/plugins --skill shopify-onboarding-dev, then npx skills add openai/plugins --skill shopify-onboarding-dev -a codex. The skill ends up at .agents/skills/shopify-onboarding-dev/SKILL.md.

What does shopify-onboarding-dev do?

It detects your client, checks for the Shopify CLI and installs it if needed, sets up the AI toolkit, then asks whether you're building an app or a theme.

Can I use it to manage an existing store?

No. It targets developers, not merchants — product, order and customer questions aren't handled here.

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