--- title: Shopify Flow: manage automations through AI Toolkit description: Shopify now lets an external agent manage Flow workflows through AI Toolkit. Store owners can ask their agent to create, update, delete, activate, or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/shopify-flow-manage-automations-through-ai-toolkit-njvqi1wof twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Shopify Flow: manage automations through AI Toolkit | daily.dev og:description: Shopify now lets an external agent manage Flow workflows through AI Toolkit. Store owners can ask their agent to create, update, delete, activate, or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/shopify-flow-manage-automations-through-ai-toolkit-njvqi1wof og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/njvQi1WOf.png og:image:alt: Shopify Flow: manage automations through AI Toolkit og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Shopify Flow: manage automations through AI Toolkit **[Shopify Developer changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/shopifychangelog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Shopify now lets an external agent manage Flow workflows through AI Toolkit. Store owners can ask their agent to create, update, delete, activate, or deactivate workflows, list workflows, and parse a .flow file into JSON for use with the API. This release covers managing your own store's workflows only; third-party apps can't use the underlying APIs directly. Direct API access requires a scope that needs Shopify's approval, and the shopify store execute CLI command can call the automation API too. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I manage Shopify Flow workflows using an AI agent? You can use Shopify's AI Toolkit to let an external agent create, update, delete, activate, deactivate, and list Flow workflows, and parse a .flow file into JSON for the API. Install or update the 'shopify' skill in AI Toolkit, then ask your agent to manage Flow automations. This covers only your own store's workflows. _Developers automating their own Shopify store can follow releases like Flow's AI Toolkit support on daily.dev._ ### Can third-party Shopify apps use the new Flow automation API directly? No, third-party apps are prevented from using the underlying automation workflow APIs directly. Direct API access requires a special scope that counts as a Shopify approval scope, meaning it must be explicitly approved by Shopify before an app can call mutations like automationWorkflowCreate. _Shopify app developers weighing API access restrictions can track platform changes like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [GitHub Agentic Workflows](https://daily.dev/posts/github-agentic-workflows-6xigduvrg) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI Toolkit skills have been consolidated to shopify](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-toolkit-skills-have-been-consolidated-to-shopify-w2ejxvfio) · Shopify Developer changelog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Shopify is preparing for AI shopping agents to change everything, exec says](https://daily.dev/posts/shopify-is-preparing-for-ai-shopping-agents-to-change-everything-exec-says-bawnndcfr) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [A GitHub agentic workflow](https://daily.dev/posts/a-github-agentic-workflow-mwq53dvmu) · ITNEXT · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#shopify](https://daily.dev/tags/shopify) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/shopify-flow-manage-automations-through-ai-toolkit-njvqi1wof) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Shopify Flow: manage automations through AI Toolkit","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/shopify-flow-manage-automations-through-ai-toolkit-njvqi1wof","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/shopify-flow-manage-automations-through-ai-toolkit-njvqi1wof"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T15:53:53.995Z","dateModified":"2026-10-28T15:57:34.983Z","description":"Shopify now lets an external agent manage Flow workflows through AI Toolkit. 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