bc-setup

bc-setup is a skill for Claude Code from OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,049 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for creating a BigCommerce development environment, including test stores, API credentials, the Stencil command-line tool, and Catalyst.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a sandbox store, configure access tokens and permissions, install Stencil CLI, or start a Catalyst project.
Why use it?
It explains the initial configuration needed before you can safely develop and test a BigCommerce integration or storefront.

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 create a sandbox store, configure access tokens and permissions, install Stencil CLI, or start a Catalyst project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/bc-setup
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-setup
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 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,049 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 $0.00041 $0.01049
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00420
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00105

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 512020d7a258, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bc-setup 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-setup/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BigCommerce Development Environment Setup

Before writing code

Fetch live docs:

  1. Fetch https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/docs/overview/quick-start for the developer center overview
  2. Web-search site:developer.bigcommerce.com stencil cli getting started for Stencil CLI setup
  3. Web-search bigcommerce sandbox store trial for sandbox/dev store options

Developer Account & Store

Getting Started

  • Create a free trial or sandbox store at bigcommerce.com
  • Partner/Developer sandbox stores are available through the BigCommerce Partner Program
  • Each store has a unique store hash (found in the API path or admin URL)

API Credentials

Create API credentials at Store Admin > Advanced Settings > API Accounts:

  • API Path — https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/{store_hash}/v3/
  • Client ID — identifies your application
  • Access Token — authenticates API requests (X-Auth-Token header)
  • Client Secret — used in OAuth flow for apps
  • OAuth scopes control access: products, orders, customers, content, etc.

Stencil CLI

Installation

npm install -g @bigcommerce/stencil-cli

Requires Node.js 18+ and npm.

Initializing a Theme

stencil init

Prompts for:

  • Store URL (e.g., https://my-store.mybigcommerce.com)
  • API Token (Stencil-CLI scope token)
  • Port for local dev server (default 3000)

Stores config in .stencil file (add to .gitignore).

Key Commands

Command Description
stencil start Start local development server with live reload
stencil bundle Bundle theme for upload
stencil push Push theme to store (with options to activate)
stencil pull Download current live theme
stencil release Release theme update

Theme Directory Structure

cornerstone/                 # Default theme (fork this)
├── assets/
│   ├── scss/                # Stylesheets
│   ├── js/                  # JavaScript modules
│   └── img/                 # Static images
├── templates/
│   ├── layout/              # Master layout templates
│   ├── pages/               # Page templates
│   ├── components/          # Reusable partials
│   └── ...
├── lang/                    # Internationalization JSON
├── config.json              # Theme configuration & variations
├── schema.json              # Theme Editor schema
├── package.json             # Node dependencies
└── .stencil                 # Local CLI config (gitignored)

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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 · 142 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 512020d7a258

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bc-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins (40 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,049 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.