Agent skill

Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance

by 40RTY-ai in 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills

Issue Shopify gift cards (store credit) to customers as a goodwill gesture, post-return incentive, or loyalty reward.

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Install Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance

skills CLI
$ npx skills add 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills --skill shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/conversion-optimization/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance .claude/skills/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance
GitHub stars
194
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
566 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
116
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Issue Shopify gift cards (store credit) to customers as a goodwill gesture, post-return incentive, or loyalty reward.

  • Works in 2 steps: OPERATION: customer — query → OPERATION: giftCardCreate — mutation
  • Tasks that involve Conversion rate optimization
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Prerequisites, Parameters and Safety, plus 6 more sections
  • Calls shopify

What it does

Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance is an agent skill from 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills. Issue Shopify gift cards (store credit) to customers as a goodwill gesture, post-return incentive, or loyalty reward.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts. Compatibility notes: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI

It works with Shopify. The repository describes itself as: Community-maintained AI agent skills for operating Shopify stores — workflows, optimization, reports and more. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Conversion rate optimization

Example prompts

  • “/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. OPERATION: customer — query
  2. OPERATION: giftCardCreate — mutation

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6765cb4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • shopify

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

  • Compatibility

    Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 38 tokens; SKILL.md has 566 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~38
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills at commit 6765cb4, republished under its MIT licence (© 40RTY-ai). 566 words, ~1,794 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance
description
Issue Shopify gift cards (store credit) to customers as a goodwill gesture, post-return incentive, or loyalty reward.
compatibility
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI
role
conversion-optimization
toolkit
shopify-admin, shopify-admin-execution
api_version
2025-01
graphql_operations
customer:query, giftCardCreate:mutation
status
stable

Purpose

Issues Shopify native gift cards to customers programmatically — as goodwill for a delayed shipment, as store credit instead of a cash refund, or as a loyalty reward. Uses Shopify's built-in gift card system; no 3rd-party app required. Gift cards issued here are redeemable at checkout exactly like manual gift cards. Note: giftCardCreate is available on all Shopify plans but may require the store to have gift cards enabled in settings.

Prerequisites

  • shopify auth login --store <domain>
  • API scopes: read_customers, write_gift_cards
  • Gift cards must be enabled in Shopify admin → Settings → Gift cards

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
storestringyes—Store domain (e.g., mystore.myshopify.com)
formatstringnohumanOutput format: human or json
dry_runboolnofalsePreview operations without executing mutations
customer_emailstringyes*—Customer email to look up and associate with the gift card
customer_idstringyes*—Customer GID (alternative to email)
amountfloatyes—Gift card value in the store's default currency
reasonstringno—Internal note logged on the gift card (e.g., "Goodwill: delayed shipment #1042")
expires_onstringno—Expiry date in ISO 8601 (e.g., 2026-12-31); if omitted, gift card does not expire
tag_customerstringno—Optional tag to add to the customer record (e.g., goodwill-issued)

*One of customer_email or customer_id is required.

Safety

⚠️ Step 2 executes giftCardCreate which issues real monetary value against your store. Gift cards cannot be deleted once created — they can only be disabled. Run with dry_run: true to confirm the customer, amount, and expiry before committing. Verify the amount carefully — issued value is immediately redeemable at checkout.

Workflow Steps

  1. OPERATION: customer — query Inputs: Look up by customer_email (using customers search) or directly by customer_id Expected output: Customer id, firstName, lastName, email; confirm customer exists before issuing

  2. OPERATION: giftCardCreate — mutation Inputs: input.initialValue, input.customerId, input.expiresOn (optional), input.note (reason) Expected output: giftCard.id, giftCard.code, giftCard.balance, giftCard.expiresOn, userErrors

GraphQL Operations

graphql
# customer:query — validated against api_version 2025-01
query CustomerByEmail($query: String!) {
  customers(first: 1, query: $query) {
    edges {
      node {
        id
        firstName
        lastName
        defaultEmailAddress {
          emailAddress
        }
        tags
      }
    }
  }
}
graphql
# giftCardCreate:mutation — validated against api_version 2025-01
mutation GiftCardCreate($input: GiftCardCreateInput!) {
  giftCardCreate(input: $input) {
    giftCard {
      id
      code
      balance {
        amount
        currencyCode
      }
      expiresOn
      note
      customer {
        id
      }
    }
    userErrors {
      field
      message
    }
  }
}

Session Tracking

Claude MUST emit the following output at each stage. This is mandatory.

On start, emit:

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  SKILL: gift-card-issuance                   ║
║  Store: <store domain>                       ║
║  Started: <YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC>             ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════╝

After each step, emit:

[N/TOTAL] <QUERY|MUTATION>  <OperationName>
          → Params: <brief summary of key inputs>
          → Result: <count or outcome>

If dry_run: true, prefix every mutation step with [DRY RUN] and do not execute it.

On completion, emit:

For format: human (default):

══════════════════════════════════════════════
OUTCOME SUMMARY
  Customer:        <name> (<email>)
  Gift card code:  <code>
  Amount:          <amount> <currency>
  Expires:         <date or "Does not expire">
  Errors:          0
  Output:          none
══════════════════════════════════════════════

For format: json, emit:

json
{
  "skill": "gift-card-issuance",
  "store": "<domain>",
  "started_at": "<ISO8601>",
  "completed_at": "<ISO8601>",
  "dry_run": false,
  "steps": [
    { "step": 1, "operation": "CustomerByEmail", "type": "query", "params_summary": "email <email>", "result_summary": "customer <id>", "skipped": false },
    { "step": 2, "operation": "GiftCardCreate", "type": "mutation", "params_summary": "amount <amount>, customer <id>", "result_summary": "gift card <code>", "skipped": false }
  ],
  "outcome": {
    "customer_id": "<id>",
    "customer_email": "<email>",
    "gift_card_id": "<id>",
    "gift_card_code": "<code>",
    "amount": "<amount>",
    "currency": "<currency>",
    "expires_on": "<date or null>",
    "errors": 0,
    "output_file": null
  }
}
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Output Format

No CSV. The session summary reports the gift card code and amount inline. The support agent copies the code to share with the customer.

Gift card issued:
  Customer:  Jane Smith (jane@example.com)
  Code:      ABCD-EFGH-IJKL-MNOP
  Value:     $25.00 USD
  Expires:   2026-12-31 (or "Does not expire")
  Note:      Goodwill: delayed shipment #1042

Error Handling

ErrorCauseRecovery
Customer not foundEmail doesn't match any customerVerify email; guest checkout customers may not have a customer record
userErrors from giftCardCreateInvalid amount (≤ 0) or missing required fieldVerify amount is a positive number
Gift cards not enabledStore settings don't allow gift cardsEnable in Shopify admin → Settings → Gift cards
write_gift_cards scope missingAuth was done without this scopeRe-run shopify store auth with write_gift_cards scope

Best Practices

  1. Always run dry_run: true to confirm customer lookup succeeds and amount is correct before issuing.
  2. Always include a reason note — it appears in the gift card record and helps your team audit issuances later.
  3. Set tag_customer: goodwill-issued to track which customers have received goodwill gift cards — combine with loyalty-segment-export to monitor their subsequent purchase behavior.
  4. Use expires_on for promotional gift cards (e.g., holiday campaigns) to create urgency; omit for goodwill issuances so the customer feels the gesture is genuine.
  5. For batch issuances (e.g., a service outage affecting 100 customers), loop through a customer list using format: json to capture each gift card code for your records.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/conversion-optimization/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance of 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6765cb4

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Questions about Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance

What does Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance do?

Issue Shopify gift cards (store credit) to customers as a goodwill gesture, post-return incentive, or loyalty reward. Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance is an agent skill from 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills. Issue Shopify gift cards (store credit) to customers as a goodwill gesture, post-return incentive, or loyalty reward.

When should I use Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance?

Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance fits situations like: tasks that involve Conversion rate optimization.

How do I install Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills --skill shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/conversion-optimization/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance in 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills) into .claude/skills/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance in Codex?

Run `npx skills add 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills --skill shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/conversion-optimization/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance in 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills) into .agents/skills/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills --skill shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance, .gemini/skills/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance, .github/skills/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance and .opencode/skills/shopify-admin-gift-card-issuance in your project.

What does Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance needs the command-line tools its instructions call (shopify). Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI.

Does Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance use?

Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Shopify Admin Gift Card Issuance?

40RTY-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills, which has 194 GitHub stars. The repository holds 116 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 14, 2026.

Source: 40RTY-ai/shopify-admin-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.