name: fetch-shopify-schema description: Use Shopify AI Toolkit to inspect live Storefront and Customer Account GraphQL schemas for Vercel Shop work.

Fetch Shopify GraphQL Schema

Description

Use this skill when you need authoritative Shopify GraphQL schema details while working on Vercel Shop. The schema source of truth is the installed Shopify/shopify-ai-toolkit plugin, not committed snapshot files in the repo.

When to Use This Skill

• Before writing new Shopify GraphQL queries or mutations
• When you need to check available fields on a type
• When debugging GraphQL errors related to field names or types
• When exploring what data is available from Shopify's APIs
• When the user asks about Shopify GraphQL schema or types

How to Use

1. Use shopify-ai-toolkit as the schema source of truth

• Use the installed Shopify/shopify-ai-toolkit plugin to inspect the live schema for the relevant API.
• Prefer live type lookup, field lookup, argument validation, and API exploration there over local .graphql snapshots.
• Do not create or update repo-local schema snapshot files for this template.

2. Pick the right Shopify API

• Storefront API for products, collections, menus, carts, search, and storefront-facing metaobjects
• Customer Account API for customer profile, orders, addresses, and authenticated account data

Never treat the Storefront API and Customer Account API schemas as interchangeable.

3. Hand off to the template workflow

• After confirming the schema details, use /vercel-shop:shopify-graphql-reference for the template's GraphQL patterns: file placement, fragments, locale context, caching, and transforms.
• If the task is specifically about authentication or metaobjects, use the matching Vercel Shop skill after the schema check.

4. If the toolkit is unavailable

• Ask the user to install or re-install the project-scoped Shopify plugin:

npx plugins add Shopify/shopify-ai-toolkit --scope project --yes

• If live toolkit access is blocked, fall back to official Shopify API docs or schema explorers instead of adding committed snapshot files to the repo.

Notes

Storefront API

• Uses the public Storefront Access Token
• Provides read access to products, collections, cart operations
• Most common API for storefront implementations

Customer Account API

• Requires customer authentication and a customer-scoped access token
• Provides access to customer data, orders, addresses
• Token handling stays inside the auth flow and server-side helpers

Guardrails

• Never guess Shopify field names, enum values, or argument shapes.
• Never add .claude/schemas, checked-in schema snapshots, or other agent-only schema caches to the template.
• Use /vercel-shop:shopify-graphql-reference for template conventions after the live schema check.

Example Workflow

1. User asks: "What fields are available on the Customer type?"
2. Use shopify-ai-toolkit to inspect the live Customer Account schema
3. Search for the Customer type and confirm the fields and nested objects
4. Use /vercel-shop:shopify-graphql-reference if you need to place a new operation in the template
5. Answer the user with the validated fields