Shopify offers the Shopify Dev Assistant and AI Toolkit, an AI-powered development tool that helps third-party developers build Shopify apps and themes by generating validated code, scaffolding apps, and answering questions using Shopify's official documentation and API schemas.

The Shopify Dev Assistant is accessible both within the Shopify developer documentation (shopify.dev) and via the Shopify Dev MCP server, which connects to supported coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and VS Code. The AI can scaffold complete Shopify apps, generate GraphQL queries and mutations against the Shopify Admin API, write Liquid templates validated against Shopify schemas, and execute store management operations. As of April 2026, the toolkit also includes an AI-powered self-review tool that checks app submissions against App Store requirements before developers submit them for human review. The toolkit is available at no cost and does not require authentication for the Dev MCP server component.