
I Built a CLI So AI Agents Can Manage My Shopify Store
I use AI tools for most of my software engineering work now. But every time I needed to do something in Shopify (check an order, update a product, look up a customer) I had to leave the terminal, open the admin dashboard, and click around. The AI could write code, run tests, manage deployments, but it couldn't touch my store. So I built shopq : a zero-dependency CLI for the Shopify Admin API, designed from the ground up to work with AI agents. The Gap There are three ways to interact with a Shopify store, and none of them fit an AI-first workflow. The admin dashboard is point-and-click. Sure, you could throw a computer-use agent at it, but a direct CLI will always be simpler and faster than an AI trying to navigate a web UI. The GraphQL Admin API is powerful, and AI actually works with it pretty well. But building and maintaining a full client around it is overkill if you just want to manage your store. You shouldn't need to scaffold a whole project to list your products. Shopify's own
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