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A comprehensive guide for deep debugging complex Shopify API issues. Learn how to use GraphQL introspection, analyze query cost headers, trace specific requests using X-Request-Id, and inspect webhook delivery status. This skill helps diagnose intermittent failures, throttling, and data inconsistencies in high-volume e-commerce environments.

This wrapper integrates Shopify's official AI Toolkit MCP server with Claude Code. It provides essential developer capabilities, including real-time GraphQL schema validation, Liquid template linting (checking for deprecated filters and anti-patterns), and instant search across Shopify's extensive documentation. Use this skill when setting up complex Shopify MCP integrations, ensuring code quality, or debugging API calls.

A comprehensive guide for diagnosing and fixing common Shopify API errors, including HTTP status codes (401, 403, 422, 429) and GraphQL userErrors. This tool helps developers quickly identify the root cause of failed API requests, whether due to incorrect scopes, expired tokens, or validation issues, and provides actionable steps for resolution.

This skill guides developers and SaaS founders on minimizing operational costs when building on the Shopify platform. It covers deep dives into Shopify store plan rate limits, optimizing GraphQL and REST API usage, implementing robust cost tracking mechanisms, and applying advanced strategies like caching and bulk operations to reduce billable expenditures.

This guide provides comprehensive steps for deploying Shopify applications (including extensions and functions) to various production cloud hosting platforms, such as Vercel, Fly.io, and Google Cloud Run. It covers critical aspects like environment configuration, setting up necessary webhooks, utilizing the Shopify CLI for deployment, and best practices for securely handling platform-specific secrets and ensuring production stability. Use this when moving a local Shopify app to a live e-commerce environment.

This skill guides the implementation of enterprise-grade Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Shopify Plus applications. It covers integrating fine-grained staff permissions, managing multi-location inventory access, and utilizing the Shopify Organization API for centralized multi-store governance. This is essential for building complex, secure SaaS solutions that require granular, per-staff, and organization-wide permission management.

A comprehensive guide to mastering Shopify's calculated query cost system. Learn how to prevent API throttling errors by understanding the difference between requested and actual query costs. The guide covers advanced techniques like optimizing pagination, selecting minimal fields, avoiding deep nesting, and utilizing bulk operations for massive data exports.

This guide provides a minimal, working example of connecting to a Shopify store using the GraphQL Admin API. It demonstrates how to initialize the API client, authenticate the connection, and execute a query to retrieve product and variant details. Ideal for developers starting a new e-commerce integration, testing API connectivity, or learning basic Shopify data retrieval patterns.

A comprehensive guide for rapid incident response when Shopify integrations fail or behave unexpectedly. It instructs users to triage issues by checking the status page, diagnosing API connectivity, and handling common errors like rate limits (429) or expired tokens (401). Includes decision trees, immediate mitigation steps, and communication templates.

This guide details how to implement robust and secure authentication for Shopify applications using the official @shopify/shopify-api SDK. It covers three main authentication methods: OAuth flow for public apps, session token exchange for embedded apps, and private access for custom apps. Use this skill when setting up, connecting, or debugging any application that requires deep integration and secure API access to Shopify's admin or storefront data.

This guide details how to use Shopify Metafields and Metaobjects via the GraphQL Admin API. Metafields allow attaching key-value custom data to existing resources (like products or orders), while Metaobjects enable defining entirely new, structured content types. Together, they provide a powerful way for developers to model complex custom data, often eliminating the need for external databases to extend e-commerce functionality.

This comprehensive guide details strategies for optimizing Shopify API performance. Key techniques include reducing excessive GraphQL query costs, implementing bulk operations for large data exports, setting up robust response caching with webhook invalidation, and utilizing the Storefront API for high-traffic public storefronts. Essential for developers hitting rate limits or slow data retrieval.