Shopify launched shop.md, a skill that lets any AI agent act as a personal shopper tied to the buyer’s Shop account, so agents no longer need a direct partnership like the one Shopify struck with Meta’s Muse in September. Once a shopper signs in, the agent can search more than a billion products in Shopify Catalog, read past orders to learn sizes and tastes, and check out with Shop Pay inside the chat. Buyers approve each purchase, the agent never sees the card, and shoppers can set their own rules, such as a budget cap or fast shipping only. Shopify also opened the Shop MCP behind the skill to developers through shop.dev, giving them one API for catalog search, Shop sign-in, Shop Pay checkout, and order tracking, with orders going straight into the merchant’s admin.
