Practical notes on useful agents.
Short, concrete writing on putting Agents to work — store operations, content, research, chat channels, memory, and workflows.
Shopify Horizon: Show Only the Selected Variant's Images
Your variant has one image, your product has twenty. Case A is native and free on every plan; Case B is alt-text tagging plus a Custom Liquid filter — the two-case split and the decision tree.
Google Merchant Center Rejected the Page, Not the Feed
Excluding ebooks from the feed didn't stop the rejections: 423 of 480 products carry print, ebook and audiobook as variants on one URL, and Google reviews the landing page. The dividing line, and three documented routes out.
The Hard Part of Agent-Made Product Videos Isn't Code — It's Shots
The open-source video-shotcraft library turned shot language into 106 named recipe cards. We packaged it into a ready-to-use Agent: product URL in, cinematic promo out.
Shopify B2B Can't Do Subscriptions: the Purchase-Option Wall (and the API Door Around It)
B2B doesn't support purchase options — and DraftOrder has no selling-plan field, so the usual workaround fails at the API level. Three doors that actually work, verified against the Admin GraphQL reference.
Your AI Fortune Teller Was Making Things Up. We Fixed It.
Everyone bookmarked the 5 viral fortune-telling Skills. We packaged TaiBu, BaZi Skill and Mingyu into one ready-to-use Agent — charts computed by real engines, never guessed.
gc-minimal-zine-poster: Minimal Zine Posters From One Topic
What the zine-style skill does, why its rules work, and how to try it as a hosted Agent.
When Subscriptions Meet Bundles: the Cart Transform Selling-Plan Wall
Selling plan in the cart? Cart Transform rejects everything. One field report says the sub price leaks into the one-time line. The split-flow architecture and the composite-key defense.
The 1,000-Tag Ceiling: Why Your Shopify Collection Filters Silently Drop Tags
collection.all_tags stops at 1,000 tags — no error, tag filters just lose options. The fix: metafields plus Search & Discovery storefront filtering.
Your Shopify Discount Function Can Silently Stop Working: The 10,000-Byte Metafield Trap
Past 10,000 bytes, Shopify stops returning the config metafield — no error, no log. The size-aware, fail-loud design that survives.
Affiliate Links vs. Discount Codes on Shopify: Why They Collide and How to Separate Them
No native switch exists. The working pattern: cart attributes plus a Discount Function that rejects codes with a clear message.
Shopify Sidekick vs. Shopify Magic: What Each One Actually Does
Magic generates content and media. Sidekick reads store context and reaches supported admin and app actions. Here is where the merchant still owns the decision.
How to Run a Shopify Store in the AI Era
A source-backed comparison of Sidekick, ecommerce AI agents, specialist apps, automation tools, merchant complaints, and safe approval boundaries.
Open-Source AI Trading Research Tools: Dexter vs Vibe-Trading
Compare deep financial research, market-data credentials, backtesting, reproducibility, and why research should stay separate from live execution.
Open-Source AI Video Tools: OpenMontage, Remotion, and auto-editor
Three different layers: agent-driven production, code-defined video rendering, and automatic rough cuts.
Open-Source AI Presentation and Office Tools: What Each One Actually Does
Presentation design, editable Office files, document extraction, format conversion, PDF operations, and signing are different jobs.
Shopify Daily Operations Checklist: What to Check Every Morning
A practical 15-minute checklist for orders, inventory, fulfillment, customer messages, product pages, traffic, and safe AI automation.
A Shopify agent starts with API access, not copy prompts
The first useful layer is a safe Admin GraphQL connector: auth, scopes, connection checks, preview writes, and owner approval.
Building a Shopify growth operator with reusable ecommerce Skills
A practical pattern for store diagnostics, daily digests, product-page fixes, inbox triage, social content, and owner approvals.
Agent marketplaces need hosted onboarding
If every user has to install an agent stack first, marketplace growth stays developer-heavy.