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I Taught Claude to Shop a Shopify Store

8/1/2025

The Good, the Bad, and the How is this Supposed to Work?

Testing your Shopify MCP server for AI shopping agents is more complex than expected since most agents don't yet use MCP, but retailers need to prepare for this agentic commerce future. Through testing with Claude's desktop app as a proxy, we discovered that AI agents can provide highly contextual product recommendations when given rich product data, but they struggle with incomplete information about availability and shipping. Success in agentic e-commerce will depend on having comprehensive product descriptions, robust FAQ data, and complete transactional information that allows AI agents to close sales within a single conversation.

An Agentic Shopping Future is Coming, Part II

7/31/2025

MCP and E-commerce

By 2027, over 50% of your traffic will be AI agents that bypass your website entirely for product discovery and purchases MCP servers are already live on major platforms (Shopify, commercetools) enabling agent-to-agent commerce without customer website visits This creates a massive competitive opportunity for early adopters before it becomes pay-to-play like Amazon Ads Start now: Perfect your product data, test existing MCP capabilities, and optimize for agent interactions

An Agentic Shopping Future is Coming

7/29/2025

Here is what you can do today

Welcome to BotsDown

7/28/2025