---
title: "Agent ready checklist: Shopify | Agent Ready Checklist"
description: "The agent readiness checklist for Shopify. All 31 rows, with a verify command for each. The first step of its recipe sits beside each row."
canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/shopify/checklist
site: "Agent Ready Checklist"
last_updated: 2026-11-05
section: "Platforms"
---

# Agent ready checklist: Shopify | Agent Ready Checklist

> The agent readiness checklist for Shopify. All 31 rows, with a verify command for each. The first step of its recipe sits beside each row.

Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/shopify/checklist
Site: Agent Ready Checklist
Last reviewed: 2026-11-05
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# Agent ready checklist: Shopify

The checklist for Shopify (Online Store 2.0 themes): all 31 rows, with the first step of the recipe where one exists. Shopify has a recipe on 31 rows: 21 direct, 10 with a workaround and 0 not possible on the platform. The first recipe, for AR-FIND-01, begins: Keep Shopify's default User-agent: \* rules.

## Verify with Ora

Shopify (Online Store 2.0 themes) has a direct recipe for 21 rows, and Ora's catalogue (read 2026-11-05) names a matching check for 17 of them, among them AR-FIND-01, AR-FIND-03, AR-READ-01. After the steps are live, one audit shows which of those fixes the score picks up.

```bash
npx ax@0.10 audit https://example.com --min-score 70
```

Run it again with `--force` after a deploy, so the audit skips Ora's cache. [Gate deploys on it in CI](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/gate-deploys-on-agent-readiness-in-ci/), [why this site recommends Ora](https://agentreadychecklist.com/verify-with-ora/), [the crosswalk of rows and checks](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ora-checks/).

## All 31 rows on Shopify

| Identifier | Level | Layer | What it asks | Verify command | On Shopify (Online Store 2.0 themes) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AR-FIND-01 | MUST | Find | Do not block agents | verify.sh --only=reach-as-agent,robots-verdicts | recipe: Keep Shopify's default `User-agent: *` rules. |
| AR-FIND-02 | SHOULD | Find | Answers on one first-party page | manual check, see the page | recipe: Publish each answer once, as a page on your own domain. |
| AR-FIND-03 | SHOULD | Find | Sitemap listed in robots.txt | verify.sh --only=sitemap-listed | recipe: Nothing to do: /sitemap.xml is generated and the default groups print it. |
| AR-FIND-04 | MAY | Find | AI Catalog at .well-known | verify.sh --only=ai-catalog | workaround: Root paths such as /.well-known/ai-catalog.json are platform-owned. |
| AR-READ-01 | MUST | Read | Answer in the initial HTML | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Liquid renders on Shopify's servers, so product titles, prices and descriptions are in the… |
| AR-READ-02 | MUST | Read | Real HTTP status codes | verify.sh --only=status-codes | recipe: Keep templates/404.json or 404.liquid; Shopify returns 404 for unknown handles. |
| AR-READ-03 | SHOULD | Read | Home page with real links | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Put Docs or FAQ, Products and Shipping or Pricing pages in the header and footer menus… |
| AR-READ-04 | SHOULD | Read | Docs that answer agent tasks | manual check, see the page | recipe: For each of your top five agent tasks, write a page that holds the steps as text, in… |
| AR-READ-05 | SHOULD | Read | Fenced, language-tagged code | verify.sh --only=code-fences | workaround: The rich text editor has no code block. |
| AR-READ-06 | SHOULD | Read | Link the discovery files | verify.sh --only=llms-linked,openapi | recipe: In layout/theme.liquid add footer links to /agents.md and /llms.txt. |
| AR-READ-07 | SHOULD | Read | Ship llms.txt | verify.sh --only=llms-linked | recipe: Already served. |
| AR-READ-08 | SHOULD | Read | JSON-LD on key pages | verify.sh --only=json-ld | recipe: In the product section: `<script type="application/ld+json">{{ product \| structured_data… |
| AR-READ-09 | MAY | Read | Advertise a markdown mirror | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | workaround: Response headers are not editable. |
| AR-READ-11 | SHOULD | Read | Pricing as first-party HTML | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Prices render as text from product and variant objects. |
| AR-ACT-01 | SHOULD | Act | Auth an agent can finish | verify.sh --only=oauth-metadata | recipe: For agents that call Shopify's agent MCP servers, credentials are self-serve: create a… |
| AR-ACT-02 | SHOULD | Act | OpenAPI contract | verify.sh --only=openapi | workaround: Serve openapi.json from your API host or through an app proxy (`[app_proxy] prefix =… |
| AR-ACT-03 | SHOULD | Act | MCP over Streamable HTTP | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | recipe: Every Shopify store already answers MCP at https://{store-domain}/api/ucp/mcp (the… |
| AR-ACT-04 | MAY | Act | MCP server card | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | workaround: Shopify publishes the business profile for UCP discovery at /.well-known/ucp on the… |
| AR-ACT-05 | MAY | Act | MCP Apps view | manual check, see the page | workaround: Shopify's catalog MCP server lists five tools (search_catalog, lookup_catalog,… |
| AR-ACT-06 | SHOULD | Act | SDKs and a CLI | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | recipe: Publish the SDK and the CLI from the product's own repository to npm or PyPI; the website… |
| AR-ACT-07 | SHOULD | Act | WebMCP tools | verify.sh --only=webmcp | recipe: Add a script before </body> in theme.liquid or ship it as a theme app extension: `if… |
| AR-ACT-08 | MAY | Act | Agent payments | curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" <paid-endpoint> | recipe: Shopify's UCP checkout covers the checkout route that AR-ACT-08 names. |
| AR-ACT-09 | MAY | Act | NLWeb /ask endpoint | curl -s "<origin>/ask?query=pricing" \| jq -e "." | workaround: Shopify's documented route for your own endpoints is an app proxy under /apps/. |
| AR-ACT-10 | MUST | Act | An MCP server or a CLI | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | recipe: Every store exposes UCP discovery at /.well-known/ucp and Shopify's UCP-compliant MCP… |
| CF-CONTENT-SIGNALS | CLOUDFLARE | Find | Content-Signal line | verify.sh --only=robots-verdicts | recipe: In robots.txt.liquid, inside the `group.user_agent.value == '*'` branch add `{{… |
| CF-PAY-PER-CRAWL | CLOUDFLARE | Find | Pay per crawl, HTTP 402 | curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -A "GPTBot/1.0" <url> | workaround: Pay per crawl is a feature of Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, set per Cloudflare zone and in… |
| VERCEL-ROBOTS-EXCLUSIONS | VERCEL | Find | Robots exclusions | verify.sh --only=robots-verdicts | recipe: Open the robots.txt that Shopify serves for your site and read every Disallow; each one… |
| CF-MARKDOWN-NEGOTIATION | CLOUDFLARE | Read | Markdown by Accept | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | recipe: Platform behaviour, no setting: `curl -sI -H 'Accept: text/markdown' https://shop.example/… |
| VERCEL-NEGOTIATION-HEADERS | VERCEL | Read | Markdown headers | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | recipe: Observed 2026-11-04: markdown responses carry `Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8`… |
| CF-OAUTH-DISCOVERY | CLOUDFLARE | Act | OAuth discovery files | verify.sh --only=oauth-metadata | workaround: Merchants cannot publish /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server on the storefront domain. |
| CF-AGENT-SKILLS | CLOUDFLARE | Act | Agent Skills index | verify.sh --only=agent-skills | workaround: No storefront path for /.well-known/agent-skills/. |

## Sources

-   [ora.ai/api/checks, contract 1.38.0](https://ora.ai/api/checks?utm_source=agentreadychecklist.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=platform-checklist)read 2026-11-05
-   [registry.npmjs.org/ax, the ax README](https://registry.npmjs.org/ax)read 2026-11-05
-   [shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/seo/robots-txt](https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/seo/robots-txt)read 2026-11-04
-   [help.shopify.com/en/manual/promoting-marketing/seo/find-site-map](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/promoting-marketing/seo/find-site-map)read 2026-11-04
-   [shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/structured\_data](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/structured_data)read 2026-11-04
-   [shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/404](https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/404)read 2026-11-04
-   [help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/menus-and-links/url-redirect](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/menus-and-links/url-redirect)read 2026-11-04
-   [shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/agents-md-liquid](https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/agents-md-liquid)read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.