Pp Shopify

Purpose

Printing Press CLI for Shopify. Ecommerce orders, products, customers, inventory, fulfillment orders, and bulk operations via the Shopify Admin...

Description

Shopify — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the shopify-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

Install via the Printing Press installer:

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install shopify --cli-only

Verify: shopify-pp-cli --version
Ensure $GOPATH/bin (or $HOME/go/bin) is on $PATH.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.3 or newer):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/commerce/shopify/cmd/shopify-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the install step did not put the binary on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not use resource commands for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. The exception is bulk-operations run-query, which intentionally starts a Shopify bulk export job when the user explicitly asks for it.

Command Reference

customers — Shopify customers with lifetime order count, lifetime spend, and contact fields.

shopify-pp-cli customers get — Get one Shopify customer by GraphQL ID.
shopify-pp-cli customers list — List customers from the Shopify Admin GraphQL API.

fulfillment-orders — Shopify fulfillment orders for lag, routing, and fulfillment-state analysis.

shopify-pp-cli fulfillment-orders get — Get one Shopify fulfillment order by GraphQL ID.
shopify-pp-cli fulfillment-orders list — List fulfillment orders from the Shopify Admin GraphQL API.

inventory-items — Shopify inventory items with tracked status and available quantities by location.

shopify-pp-cli inventory-items get — Get one Shopify inventory item by GraphQL ID.
shopify-pp-cli inventory-items list — List inventory items from the Shopify Admin GraphQL API.

orders — Shopify orders with money totals, financial state, and fulfillment state.

shopify-pp-cli orders get — Get one Shopify order by GraphQL ID.
shopify-pp-cli orders list — List orders from the Shopify Admin GraphQL API.

products — Shopify products with product status, catalog metadata, and a compact variant inventory projection.

shopify-pp-cli products get — Get one Shopify product by GraphQL ID.
shopify-pp-cli products list — List products from the Shopify Admin GraphQL API.

Hand-written commands

shopify-pp-cli bulk-operations current — Show the current or most recent Shopify bulk operation.
shopify-pp-cli bulk-operations run-query --query-file <path> — Start a Shopify bulk GraphQL export job from a query file.

Freshness Contract

This printed CLI owns bounded freshness only for registered store-backed read command paths. In --data-source auto mode, those paths check sync_state and may run a bounded refresh before reading local data. --data-source local never refreshes. --data-source live reads the API and does not mutate the local store. Set SHOPIFY_NO_AUTO_REFRESH=1 to skip the freshness hook without changing source selection.

Covered paths:

shopify-pp-cli customers
shopify-pp-cli customers get
shopify-pp-cli customers list
shopify-pp-cli fulfillment-orders
shopify-pp-cli fulfillment-orders get
shopify-pp-cli fulfillment-orders list
shopify-pp-cli inventory-items
shopify-pp-cli inventory-items get
shopify-pp-cli inventory-items list
shopify-pp-cli orders
shopify-pp-cli orders get
shopify-pp-cli orders list
shopify-pp-cli products
shopify-pp-cli products get
shopify-pp-cli products list

When JSON output uses the generated provenance envelope, freshness metadata appears at meta.freshness. Treat it as current-cache freshness for the covered command path, not a guarantee of complete historical backfill or API-specific enrichment.

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

shopify-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Auth Setup

Set the store host, Admin API version, and access token via environment variables:

export SHOPIFY_SHOP="<your-store>.myshopify.com"
export SHOPIFY_API_VERSION="2026-04"
export SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN="<your-key>"

Or persist it in ~/.config/shopify-pp-cli/config.toml.

Run shopify-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes.

Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr
Filterable — --select keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:
```
shopify-pp-cli customers list --agent --select id,name,status
```
Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending
Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag
Read-mostly — resource commands are read-only; bulk-operations run-query mutates remote state by starting an export job and should only be used on explicit request

Response envelope

Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:

{
  "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
  "results": <data>
}

Parse .results for data and .meta.source to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable N results (live) summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal — piped/agent consumers get pure JSON on stdout.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:

shopify-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
shopify-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
shopify-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10

Entries are stored locally at ~/.shopify-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless SHOPIFY_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or SHOPIFY_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true. Default behavior is local-only.

Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.

Output Delivery

Every command accepts --deliver <sink>. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:

Sink	Effect
`stdout`	Default; write to stdout only
`file:<path>`	Atomically write output to `<path>` (tmp + rename)
`webhook:<url>`	POST the output body to the URL (`application/json` or `application/x-ndjson` when `--compact`)

Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.

Named Profiles

A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern.

shopify-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
shopify-pp-cli --profile briefing customers list
shopify-pp-cli profile list --json
shopify-pp-cli profile show briefing
shopify-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes

Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults. agent-context lists all available profiles under available_profiles so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.

Exit Codes

Code	Meaning
0	Success
2	Usage error (wrong arguments)
3	Resource not found
4	Authentication required
5	API error (upstream issue)
7	Rate limited (wait and retry)
10	Config error

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

Empty, help, or --help → show shopify-pp-cli --help output
Starts with install → ends with mcp → MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with --agent)

MCP Server Installation

Install the MCP server:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/commerce/shopify/cmd/shopify-pp-mcp@latest

claude mcp add shopify-pp-mcp -- shopify-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

Check if installed: which shopify-pp-cli If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.

Execute with the --agent flag:

shopify-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent

If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: shopify-pp-cli <command> --help.

Source

Codex

Capabilities

See original source for capabilities.

Inputs

Inputs depend on the skill's trigger and arguments. See the source SKILL.md.

Outputs

Outputs depend on the skill. Typical: files written, reports generated, agent actions performed.

When To Use

When the user invokes /pp-shopify or describes a task the skill's description matches.

Dependencies

See the source skill's references and scripts folders.

Related Systems

Claude (if synced from ~/.claude/skills/pp-shopify)
HQ Project — landing page Skills section
MD Project (md.sgnk.ai) — Skills/Pp Shopify/
Obsidian Vault — Skills/Pp Shopify/

Examples

See workflow.md.

Source: ~/.codex/skills/pp-shopify/SKILL.md Category: Printing Press