Shopify automation updates
Follow the Mechanic updates behind advanced Shopify automation: platform improvements, builder tools, integrations, AI support, docs, and task examples as they ship.
Release log
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.
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Workflow
Configuration
Events
Help
Integrations
Task library
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Product updates, docs, and examples for people building beyond Shopify's defaults.
See events received, task runs, actions sent, and failed runs — and the patterns behind them.
Pull tasks into Git-friendly files, preview and diff changes locally, publish on purpose, and monitor your queue.
Store shared values and write-only secrets at the shop level, and reference them from any task.
Build notes
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.
Visibility
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.
Workflow
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.
Configuration
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.
Signals
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.
Task runs
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.
Help
Ask Mechanic can answer product questions, find task examples, check Shopify API context, validate GraphQL, and review pasted code, task exports, or log excerpts.
AI tools
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.
Connected services
Connect Airtable, Slack, and Google accounts in Mechanic, then use tasks to post messages, update bases, and work with Google Drive or Sheets files.
Builder tools
Declare Shopify permissions directly, use keyboard shortcuts, and keep GraphQL-in-Liquid docs and migration examples close at hand while building or refreshing tasks.
Task discovery
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.
Working examples
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.
Mechanic
Mechanic is the platform behind these updates. Learn how it works, or install it from the Shopify App Store.
