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Init Vercel Shop

vercel/init-vercel-shop

Initialize a new Vercel Shop storefront with the official create-vercel-shop CLI. Use when the user wants to create, scaffold, start, or initialize a Vercel Shop project from a coding agent.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/vercel/shop --skill init-vercel-shop

What comes with it

2 399 bytes besides the instruction
references/storefront-token.md

The instruction itself

1 sections, as written by the author

Initialize Vercel Shop

Ask for the target directory if the user did not provide one. Always pass it explicitly.

  • Inspect the target. If it already contains a Vercel Shop project, stop and use the relevant storefront skill instead. If it is a non-empty directory, ask for a different target rather than overwriting files.
  • Run:
   npx create-vercel-shop@latest <target-directory>

Preserve an explicitly requested package manager with --use-pnpm, --use-npm, --use-yarn, or --use-bun.

  • Confirm the generated project contains .vercel-shop/bootstrap.json, AGENTS.md, app/, components/, lib/shopify/, and package.json.
  • Read the generated AGENTS.md before making further changes.
  • If the CLI reports a plugin installation failure, keep the generated project and show the matching retry command:
   npx plugins add vercel/shop --scope project --yes
   npx plugins add vercel/vercel-plugin --scope project --yes
   npx plugins add Shopify/shopify-ai-toolkit --scope project --yes
  • Ask one optional follow-up: Connect an existing Shopify store now?

If yes, ask only for the store's admin URL or .myshopify.com domain, then read references/storefront-token.md and follow its automated Shopify CLI flow. Try to reuse or create a public Storefront token before asking the user to visit the Headless channel.

If no, finish with the normal environment setup as the next step.

Return the generated project path, whether a Shopify store was connected, and whether plugin installation needs a retry.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take vercel/init-vercel-shop from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference npx. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.