merchandising-rules

merchandising-rules is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from finsilabs/awesome-ecommerce-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,870 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to deciding which products appear first in collections and search results. It covers automatic sorting as well as manual actions such as pinning or hiding products.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build product ranking rules, create automatic collections, control search placement, pin products, and compare the sales effect of different rankings.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to reorder products by hand and helps keep out-of-stock, seasonal, popular, or high-margin items in the intended positions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to build product ranking rules, create automatic collections, control search placement, pin products, and compare the sales effect of different rankings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/finsilabs/awesome-ecommerce-skills/merchandising-rules
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add finsilabs/awesome-ecommerce-skills --skill merchandising-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/finsilabs/awesome-ecommerce-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,870 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 $0.00026 $0.02870
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01435
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00574
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00287

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5cd06ecf03bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

merchandising-rules 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 12d 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/business-operations/merchandising-rules/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Merchandising Rules

Overview

Merchandising rules control which products appear first in your collections and search results. The goal is to surface products that are likely to convert — in-stock, popular, high-margin — while giving merchandisers manual control to pin hero products, hide out-of-stock items, and boost seasonal collections. Every major platform has some built-in sorting options; apps like Searchpie, Intelligems, or SearchPie add automated performance-based ranking.

When to Use This Skill

  • When building product ranking logic for collection and category pages
  • When creating automated (smart) collections based on product attributes, tags, or performance
  • When implementing search result boosting and burying for merchandising control
  • When adding pinning (manual placement) and slot-based merchandising to collection pages
  • When measuring the revenue impact of different product ranking strategies

Core Instructions

Step 1: Determine your platform and choose the right merchandising tool

Platform Recommended Tool Why
Shopify Shopify's built-in collection sorting + Kimonix or SearchPie Shopify has built-in sort options; Kimonix and SearchPie add performance-based automated sorting with manual override capability
WooCommerce WooCommerce's default sort + YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode or WooCommerce Product Table WooCommerce supports basic sorting; YITH and similar plugins add advanced catalog control
BigCommerce Built-in Collection Sorting + SearchPie or Boost Commerce BigCommerce has strong built-in category sorting; Boost Commerce adds advanced search merchandising
Custom / Headless Algolia or Elasticsearch with a merchandising rules layer Algolia has a built-in "Rules" and "Pinning" feature in its dashboard; Elasticsearch needs custom scoring rules

Step 2: Configure basic collection sorting

Shopify

Built-in sorting options (no app needed):

  1. Go to Products → Collections → [Collection] → Products
  2. From the "Sort" dropdown, choose:
    • Best Selling — sorts by total units sold historically (most popular first)
    • Newest — most recently added products first
    • Price (Low to High / High to Low) — price-based sorting
    • Manually — lets you drag products to specific positions
  3. The "Manual" sort lets you pin specific products by dragging them to the top — useful for hero products and new launches

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 12d ago First seen · 230 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 5cd06ecf03bf

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merchandising-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository finsilabs/awesome-ecommerce-skills (52 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,870 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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