Issue 195 - Agentic Commerce Has Arrived

Tobi Lutke on X: Today we are releasing 3 tools to make adding commerce to ai agents trivial

Agents will become a common way people shop. So today we are releasing 3 tools to make adding commerce to those agents trivial

By Tobi Lutke

Agentic Commerce Has Arrived - Add Shopping to your AI Agent

We're bringing native shopping into your AI conversations. Use our APIs and MCPs to add shopping capabilities to your agent across a vast merchant ecosystem with hundreds of millions of products. Shopify has you covered from querying for products to showing them to buyers.

By Shopify

Using Horizon Theme Blocks in Dawn

Today I realized you can simply take Horizon’s generic wrapper section, and install it to Dawn. This will allow you to: use Horizon’s AI Block Generator in Dawn add global theme blocks to Dawn. These are abilities that come with all Horizon-era themes, but not on Dawn-era themes.

By Ed Codes

The Vibe Coding Warning: How Technical Debt Is Silently Killing Your Shopify Store's Revenue

A former Liquid Weekly guest Paolo Vidali just recorded a great interview where he and the host talked about an invisible profit killer lurking in many Shopify stores: technical debt

By Ecommerce Fastlane

Horizon is now open source

Check it out - Horizon is now open source. Plus, 4.5k lines of cursor rules that you can steal for your own projects! (Thanks Ben Sehl!)

By ShopifyDevs

Show variant images as swatches in Horizon theme

Learn how to set up variant images as swatches in the Horizon theme on Shopify! In this comprehensive tutorial, I'll walk you through the complete process of creating beautiful product swatches that display variant images instead of just color names.

By CraftShift

Preview as close as possible to what the merchant will see (Liquid)

Still exploring the new Horizon theme and I stumbled upon a new property for the request object You know how you can see a preview when adding a new section/block, this is precisely the context this property is aimed at. A pretty niche and advanced use case to push the presentation of your work even further !

By Virgil Dubois

Meta Pixel Full Funnel Installation Tracking

Shopify released an update to Meta Ads that allow setup with even better targeting. Check out the changelog - you'll find a link to further instructions on usage.

By ShopifyDevs