bc-app-dev

bc-app-dev is a skill for Claude Code from OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,160 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building BigCommerce apps, including apps installed from the BigCommerce App Marketplace and background connector apps. It covers OAuth, callbacks, embedded admin screens, storefront scripts, and marketplace submission.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build BigCommerce integrations, connect external systems, embed tools in the admin panel, or add scripts to a storefront.
Why use it?
It clarifies which app type fits your integration and how installation gives the app permission to access a store.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the bigcommerce-commerce plugin — 20 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to build BigCommerce integrations, connect external systems, embed tools in the admin panel, or add scripts to a storefront.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/bc-app-dev
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 OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins --skill bc-app-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bigcommerce-commerce, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,160 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 $0.00044 $0.01160
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00464
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00116

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 82e1cca9bf95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bc-app-dev 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 1mo 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.

bigcommerce-commerce/skills/bc-app-dev/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BigCommerce App Development

Before writing code

Fetch live docs:

  1. Fetch https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/docs/integrations/apps/introduction for the apps guide
  2. Web-search site:developer.bigcommerce.com apps guide auth for OAuth patterns
  3. Web-search bigcommerce single-click app tutorial for step-by-step implementation

App Types

Single-Click Apps

Apps installed from the BigCommerce App Marketplace:

  • User clicks "Install" in the marketplace or admin panel
  • BigCommerce initiates OAuth flow with your server
  • Your app receives a permanent API token for that store
  • Load your app UI in an iframe within BigCommerce admin

Connector Apps

Simplified apps that don't embed UI in BigCommerce:

  • OAuth install flow only — get an API token
  • No admin panel iframe
  • Typically background data sync services (ERP, shipping, marketing)

Scripts-Only Apps

Inject JavaScript into the storefront without a full app:

  • Use the Script Manager API after OAuth install
  • No admin panel UI
  • For analytics, chat widgets, A/B testing, etc.

OAuth Flow

Installation Flow

  1. Merchant clicks "Install" — BigCommerce sends GET to your Auth Callback URL with code, scope, context
  2. Your server exchanges code for a permanent access_token via POST to https://login.bigcommerce.com/oauth2/token
  3. Store the access_token, store_hash, and scope for future API calls
  4. Return HTML that BigCommerce renders in the admin iframe

Load Callback

When the merchant opens your app in BigCommerce admin:

  • BigCommerce sends GET to your Load Callback URL with a signed JWT
  • Verify JWT signature using your Client Secret
  • Extract store_hash and user from the JWT payload
  • Return your app's UI HTML

Uninstall Callback

When the merchant uninstalls:

  • BigCommerce sends GET to your Uninstall Callback URL with a signed JWT
  • Clean up stored tokens and data for that store

Remove User Callback

When a specific user is removed from a multi-user store:

  • Clean up user-specific data

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 1mo ago First seen · 154 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 82e1cca9bf95

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bc-app-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins (40 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,160 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-15.

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