Shopify automation updates

Mechanic Additions

Follow the Mechanic updates behind advanced Shopify automation: platform improvements, builder tools, integrations, AI support, docs, and task examples as they ship.

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Release log

A running log for meaningful Mechanic updates.

Product changes, docs, and task examples appear here when they are useful for people building with Mechanic. Some are platform-level, some improve task building, and some help you start from a stronger example.

Latest

What's new in Mechanic

Product changes, docs, and task examples worth knowing about.

Storefront

Customer requests → tasks

Build a form. Connect it to your workflows.

Visibility

See Mechanic working

Activity charts events, task runs, actions, and failures — with drilldowns to the runs behind them.

Workflow

Your editor, your tools

Pull, preview, diff, and publish tasks with the Mechanic CLI — and monitor the queue.

Configuration

Globals + secrets

Shop-level values and write-only secrets, ready for any task to reference.

Events

Cleaner signals

Filter, trim, and route Shopify webhook events before tasks receive them.

Help

Mechanic-aware help

Ask Mechanic brings docs, examples, API context, and pasted-code review into the app.

Integrations

Airtable, Slack, and Google

Connect the services your operations already depend on.

Task library

Code search + examples

Find working examples by code pattern, API, integration, or task outcome.

Latest

Recent Mechanic updates

Product updates, docs, and examples for people building beyond Shopify's defaults.

Run visibility Local workflow Shop-level secrets Cleaner events Connected services

Storefront

Storefront forms

Build forms visually, place them in your Shopify theme, and let submissions start your task workflows.

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Visibility

Activity

See events received, task runs, actions sent, and failed runs — and the patterns behind them.

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Workflow

Mechanic from your own tools

Pull tasks into Git-friendly files, preview and diff changes locally, publish on purpose, and monitor your queue.

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Configuration

Shop globals + secrets

Store shared values and write-only secrets at the shop level, and reference them from any task.

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Build notes

What changed

The notes below stay close to the product surface: what changed, where it shows up in Mechanic, and which docs or examples help you use it.

Storefront

Your storefront can start a Mechanic workflow.

A customer asks for a quote. A retailer applies for wholesale. Someone needs a repair. Build the form in Mechanic, add it to your theme, and connect tasks to handle what happens next. A cart quote form can include the current cart and trigger a task that creates a draft order for review. Each submission becomes an ordinary Mechanic event through your chosen webhook. Install and configure tasks to email your team, save answers, or run your own follow-up workflow.

Editable templates, multiple steps, and conditional questions
Show a full form or a button that opens it in place
Cart quote starter and a task that creates a Shopify draft order for review
Visibility conditions based on the customer, page, or cart
File uploads, up to 3 MB total per submission
Native form picker in the Shopify theme editor
Email, Google Sheets and Drive, and Shopify metaobject task examples
Save drafts, publish changes, and import or export form definitions

Explore storefront forms Build your first form

A storefront quote request form with multiple steps and a file upload field. — Shown in an example theme. Your theme supplies the fonts and colors.

Visibility

See how Mechanic is operating in your shop.

The Activity page charts events received and created, task runs, actions sent, and failed runs across the range you choose. Summary cards surface top contributors, and every chart drills into the Events view, so a spike or a failure pattern traces back to the runs behind it.

Events, runs + actions
Failure patterns
Top contributors
Drill into events

Activity Events Monitoring Mechanic

Workflow

Build, preview, publish, and monitor from your own tools.

The Mechanic CLI pulls tasks into Git-friendly JSON files, so you can edit Liquid in your own editor, preview changes against your shop without saving, review diffs, and publish when you mean to. Shop status reports waiting runs, queue lag, and top contributors — in your terminal, or as JSON for Datadog, Cronitor, and friends.

Pull, preview, diff, publish
Git-friendly task files
Queue + lag monitoring
GitHub Actions templates

Mechanic CLI Task sync API Monitoring

Configuration

Keep shared values and credentials out of task code.

Globals are shop-level values any task can read with globals.foo. Secrets are write-only once saved: secrets.foo gives a task a signed reference that resolves only where the value is actually needed — HTTP requests, OAuth calls, HMAC filters — while logs, previews, and exports stay redacted.

Shop-level globals
Write-only secrets
Redacted in logs + previews
Secret-aware task options

Globals + secrets Settings Task options

Signals

Filter Shopify webhooks before tasks receive them.

For advanced cases, custom Shopify webhooks let tasks receive the Shopify events they actually need: filtered at the source, trimmed to the fields that matter, optionally including selected metafields, and routed onto a user/... topic you control.

Shopify-side filters
Smaller payloads
Selected metafields
user/... topics

Custom webhooks Include metafields Metaobject events

Task runs

Turn manual runs into guided workflows.

Task options now support richer field types like dates, times, colors, ranges, choices, and Shopify resource pickers. User forms bring those fields to Run buttons, single-task manual runs, and Shopify admin action links so the task gets the right input up front.

Richer option types
Resource pickers
User-form runs
Required fields

Task options User forms Run links Task editor

Help

Ask Mechanic without leaving the task.

Ask Mechanic can answer product questions, find task examples, check Shopify API context, validate GraphQL, and review pasted code, task exports, or log excerpts.

Docs answers
Task examples
Pasted code + logs
GraphQL context

Ask Mechanic Using AI Task library

AI tools

Let your AI tools understand Mechanic.

Mechanic docs and task-library patterns can now travel into the tools builders already use. The MCP server gives AI tools access to tasks and docs, while the task-writer skill teaches Mechanic-specific patterns for subscriptions, preview mode, GraphQL, and importable task JSON.

MCP server
Agent Skills
Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini

Agent Skills MCP server Task library

Connected services

Connect tasks to Airtable, Slack, and Google.

Connect Airtable, Slack, and Google accounts in Mechanic, then use tasks to post messages, update bases, and work with Google Drive or Sheets files.

Connected accounts
Airtable
Slack
Google Drive + Sheets

Integrations Airtable task Slack task Google Drive task

Builder tools

More controls for building and updating tasks.

Declare Shopify permissions directly, use keyboard shortcuts, and keep GraphQL-in-Liquid docs and migration examples close at hand while building or refreshing tasks.

Permissions tag
Keyboard shortcuts
GraphQL examples
Run-page inputs

Permissions Keyboard shortcuts GraphQL in Liquid Task library

Task discovery

Search inside task code.

The task library can search published task code, so builders can find examples by Liquid, GraphQL, subscription topics, action types, or integration code instead of relying only on titles and tags.

Code search
Task previews
Result snippets
Updated badges

Browse tasks Task library guide

Working examples

Start from task examples for real Shopify operations.

The task library includes practical patterns for connected services, analytics, merchandising, order controls, and shipping operations, so builders can start from working examples instead of a blank editor.

Integration examples
ShopifyQL patterns
Order + shipping automations
GraphQL refreshes

Browse tasks Airtable example Slack example Google Drive example ShopifyQL analytics Sales-based sorting Order limit alerts Shipping adjustments

Mechanic

Build custom Shopify automation with Mechanic.

Mechanic is the platform behind these updates. Learn how it works, or install it from the Shopify App Store.

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