theme-development

theme-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dragnoir/Shopify-agent-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,789 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for building and changing Shopify themes, which control the appearance and layout of an online store. It covers theme files, reusable page parts, templates, the Shopify theme editor, and publishing themes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating themes, customizing existing ones such as Dawn or Skeleton, setting up theme development, working with sections and blocks, publishing to a Shopify store, and improving theme performance.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the structure and conventions needed to work on Shopify themes without guessing where layouts, settings, styles, or reusable parts belong.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Creating themes, customizing existing ones such as Dawn or Skeleton, setting up theme development, working with sections and blocks, publishing to a Shopify store, and improving theme performance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragnoir/shopify-agent-skills/theme-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add dragnoir/Shopify-agent-skills --skill theme-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dragnoir/Shopify-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,789 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

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00057 $0.01789
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00894
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00179

Measured 8d ago against content hash 33f416f8eda7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

theme-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 8d 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/theme-development/SKILL.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shopify Theme Development

When to use this skill

Use this skill when:

  • Creating a new Shopify theme from scratch
  • Modifying or customizing an existing theme
  • Understanding Shopify theme architecture
  • Working with sections, blocks, and templates
  • Setting up the development environment
  • Deploying themes to a Shopify store
  • Optimizing theme performance

Theme Architecture Overview

Directory Structure

A Shopify theme must follow this structure:

your-theme/
├── assets/          # CSS, JS, images, fonts
├── config/          # Theme settings (settings_schema.json, settings_data.json)
├── layout/          # Layout files (theme.liquid required)
├── locales/         # Translation files (en.default.json, etc.)
├── sections/        # Reusable section components
├── snippets/        # Reusable code snippets
└── templates/       # Page templates (JSON or Liquid)
    └── customers/   # Customer account templates

Minimum Requirements: Only layout/theme.liquid is required for upload.

Component Hierarchy

Layout (theme.liquid)
  └── Template (product.json)
        └── Sections (product-details.liquid)
              └── Blocks (price, quantity, add-to-cart)
                    └── Snippets (icon-cart.liquid)

Getting Started

1. Initialize a New Theme

Use the Skeleton theme as a starting point:

# Clone the Skeleton theme
shopify theme init my-theme

# Navigate to your theme
cd my-theme

The Skeleton theme is minimal and follows Shopify best practices.

2. Start Development Server

# Start local development with hot reload
shopify theme dev

# Connect to a specific store
shopify theme dev --store your-store.myshopify.com

This opens a local preview URL with live reloading.

3. Push to Shopify

# Upload as a new theme
shopify theme push --unpublished

# Push to an existing theme
shopify theme push --theme THEME_ID

Key Concepts

Layouts

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 307 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 33f416f8eda7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

theme-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository dragnoir/Shopify-agent-skills (48 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,789 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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