Thread by @tobi

Agents will become a common way people shop. So today we are releasing 3 tools to make adding commerce to those agents trivial:

- Checkout Kit: embed commerce widgets and checkout(!) directly into your agent and chat. This is already being used by Microsoft’s @Copilot.
- Shopify Catalog: low latency global product search across millions of merchants
- Universal Cart: shop from any store, anywhere, in one cart

With these, you can build seamless embedded commerce experiences quickly, starting with all the best products by the best merchants in the world instead of having to sign them all up individually. No need to build a complex new checkout, or dealing with regulatory marketplace rules. Commerce just plugs in and feels seamless in conversations.

We believe commerce should be everywhere people are, so we’re making that as easy as possible for the AI age.

There are some really cool technical details in how this all works. We heavily invested in MCP-UI, an extension of the MCP protocol to allow exposing widgets that a host can choose to display. The product cards you see in the video are exposed through MCP-UI and then securely rendered.

This means you don’t need to to fiddle with things like product variants, color swatches, subscriptions, minimums, bundles etc. The Web Components know about it all and render things correctly.

https://x.com/ShopifyEng/status/1952793133122765285

More on dev docs shopify.dev/docs/agents