Shopify Policy Guardrails

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Hardening a Shopify app against secret leaks
• Enforcing query cost limits
• Preparing for App Store submission review
• With phrases like shopify policy

Example prompts

• “shopify policy”
• “shopify lint”
• “shopify guardrails”
• “/shopify-policy-guardrails”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npx:*)

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Secret Detection Rules
2. 2Query Cost Budget Enforcement
3. 3Pre-Commit Hooks
4. 4App Store Compliance Checker
5. 5CI Policy Pipeline

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Bash(npx:*)

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • git

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

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • eslint.org
  • github.com

  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

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Shopify Policy Guardrails loads about 1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 109 tokens; SKILL.md has 280 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~109

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.8k

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

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:56

  ed changes for Shopify tokens and block `.env` files from being committed.

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:74

  name: Check .env not staged

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:78

  echo "ERROR: .env file staged for commit"

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 280 words, ~1,031 tokens.

name

shopify-policy-guardrails

description

Implement Shopify app policy enforcement with ESLint rules for API key detection, query cost budgets, and App Store compliance checks. Use when hardening a Shopify app against secret leaks, enforcing query cost limits, or preparing for App Store submission review. Trigger with phrases like "shopify policy", "shopify lint", "shopify guardrails", "shopify compliance", "shopify eslint", "shopify app review".

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npx:*)

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

2.7.0

license

MIT

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

tags

saas, ecommerce, shopify

# .pre-commit-config.yaml
repos:
  - repo: local
    hooks:
      - id: shopify-token-scan
        name: Scan for Shopify tokens
        language: system
        entry: bash -c '
          if git diff --cached --diff-filter=d | grep -E "shpat_[a-f0-9]{32}|shpss_[a-f0-9]{32}" ; then
            echo "ERROR: Shopify access token detected in staged changes"
            exit 1
          fi'
        pass_filenames: false

      - id: shopify-env-check
        name: Check .env not staged
        language: system
        entry: bash -c '
          if git diff --cached --name-only | grep -E "^\.env$|^\.env\.local$|^\.env\.production$" ; then
            echo "ERROR: .env file staged for commit"
            exit 1
          fi'
        pass_filenames: false

# One-liner: check for token leaks in staged changes
git diff --cached | grep -E "shpat_|shpss_" && echo "TOKEN LEAK!" || echo "Clean"

# Check GDPR compliance
grep -c "customers/data_request\|customers/redact\|shop/redact" shopify.app.toml
# Should output: 3

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in skills/.curated/shopify-policy-guardrails of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

• SKILL.md
• references/ci-policy-pipeline.md
• references/compliance-checker.md
• references/query-cost-budget.md
• references/secret-detection-eslint.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287