---
name: shopify-onboarding-merchant
description: Install instructions for the Shopify merchant onboarding skill.
maintainer: Shopify
---

# shopify-onboarding-merchant

This page intentionally contains no operational guidance. The merchant onboarding skill is **installable**: ask your AI coding assistant to install it, and it will load the full guidance into the session itself.

## Install

Have your AI assistant run this command:

```
npx skills add Shopify/shopify-ai-toolkit --skill shopify-onboarding-merchant
```

The skill will be added to your assistant's local skills directory (e.g. `~/.claude/skills/shopify-onboarding-merchant/`) and auto-loaded on the next session.

Source: <https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-ai-toolkit>

## Why install instead of fetching this URL?

Fetching this URL only ever returns these install instructions. The actual onboarding rules — how to install the Shopify CLI, connect a store, handle URL formats, scope auth requests, import products from other platforms — live in the installed skill so your assistant trusts and loads them locally without an external fetch.

## Looking for the developer skill?

For Shopify app and theme development (not merchant onboarding), see <https://shopify.dev/skill.md>.