app-development

app-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dragnoir/Shopify-agent-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (2,684 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building Shopify apps: software that adds features to a Shopify store or its administration area.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create public or private apps, add screens to the Shopify admin, connect to Shopify APIs, respond to store events, and prepare an app for the Shopify App Store.
Why use it?
It explains the main Shopify app types, authentication, admin interfaces, extensions, webhooks, and publishing steps in one development workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is import { authenticate } from "../shopify.server";.

Good fit Use it to create public or private apps, add screens to the Shopify admin, connect to Shopify APIs, respond to store events, and prepare an app for the Shopify App Store.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dragnoir/Shopify-agent-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragnoir/shopify-agent-skills/app-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,684 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00059 $0.02684
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01342
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00268

Measured 9d ago against content hash 702c05e1b183, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-development scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/app-development/SKILL.md · 501 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 501 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shopify App Development

When to use this skill

Use this skill when:

  • Creating a new Shopify app
  • Building app extensions (admin, checkout, etc.)
  • Embedding UI in the Shopify admin
  • Working with OAuth and app authentication
  • Managing webhooks and app events
  • Using Shopify Polaris UI components
  • Deploying apps to the Shopify App Store

App Types

Public Apps

  • Distributed via the Shopify App Store
  • Available to all merchants
  • Require app review process

Custom Apps

  • Built for a single merchant/organization
  • Direct installation (no app store)
  • Simpler distribution

Sales Channel Apps

  • Integrate a sales channel with Shopify
  • Appear in the Shopify admin's sales channels

Getting Started

1. Create a New App

# Initialize a new app
shopify app init

# Choose a template:
# - Remix (recommended)
# - Node
# - Ruby
# - PHP

2. Project Structure (Remix Template)

my-app/
├── app/
│   ├── routes/
│   │   ├── app._index.jsx      # Main app page
│   │   ├── app.products.jsx    # Products page
│   │   └── webhooks.jsx        # Webhook handlers
│   ├── shopify.server.js       # Shopify API config
│   └── root.jsx                # Root layout
├── extensions/                  # App extensions
├── prisma/                      # Database schema
├── shopify.app.toml            # App configuration
└── package.json

3. Start Development

# Start dev server with tunnel
shopify app dev

# View app info
shopify app info

App Configuration

shopify.app.toml

name = "My App"
client_id = "your-api-key"

[access_scopes]
scopes = "read_products, write_products, read_orders"

[webhooks]
api_version = "2025-01"

[[webhooks.subscriptions]]
topics = ["products/create", "orders/create"]
uri = "/webhooks"

[app_proxy]
url = "https://myapp.example.com/proxy"
subpath = "app-proxy"
prefix = "apps"

Environment Variables

SHOPIFY_API_KEY=your-api-key
SHOPIFY_API_SECRET=your-api-secret
SCOPES=read_products,write_products
HOST=https://your-tunnel-url.ngrok.io

Read the full file on GitHub · 501 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 501 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 702c05e1b183

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app-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository dragnoir/Shopify-agent-skills (48 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,684 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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