Give your Shopify products the best seat at every AI table.
AI shopping agents are evaluating your catalog right now. Make sure they have everything they need to recommend your products.
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Your products speak every agent's language.
Each AI platform has its own way of discovering and evaluating products. Inception Agents supports all of them.
Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)
OpenAI's protocol for AI shopping. Product discovery, comparison, and checkout — all machine-readable.
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)
Google's protocol for structured product data. Powers Gemini's shopping recommendations and product panels.
Shopify Agentic Commerce
Shopify's native protocol for ChatGPT Instant Checkout. Direct catalog access for connected merchants.
Copilot Catalog Integration
Microsoft Copilot reads product catalogs via JSON feeds. GTIN/UPC resolution and Knowledge Graph entity matching.
Your catalog becomes agent-navigable.
When agents visit your Shopify store, they can browse your full catalog — filtering by category, price, availability. Each section is enriched with AI-written content in your brand voice. 12–20 Inception Points auto-generated · 5 enrichment sections each · Health scores track readiness.
Products
Full catalog, filterable by category, price, availability, and audience. Agents browse like a personal shopper.
Deals
Current promotions and discounts, synced in real-time from your Shopify store.
Reviews
Aggregated review data with sentiment context. Agents use this to recommend with confidence.
Categories
Browsable category tree with product counts. Agents traverse your store structure naturally.
What changes when you install.
- — Basic Shopify structured data with minimal product context
- — No llms.txt file for training crawlers
- — No agent detection or traffic attribution
- — No commerce protocol endpoints (ACP, UCP)
- — Agents see the same HTML as human visitors
- + Enriched JSON-LD with competitive positioning, feature comparisons, and review summaries
- + Auto-generated llms.txt updated from your catalog and agent behavior data
- + Full agent detection with platform attribution and conversion tracking
- + ACP, UCP, Shopify Agentic, and Copilot Catalog protocol support
- + Each agent type receives content optimized for its evaluation model
- + Inception Points — agents can browse, filter, and compare your catalog like a personal shopper
Complete setup instructions.
Choose the integration method that works best for your store.
Option 1: Dashboard Connector (Recommended)
Connect your Shopify store directly from the Inception Agents dashboard via OAuth. The fastest path to full optimization with real-time product sync.
- Go to Connectors in the Inception Agents dashboard and click Connect Shopify
- Authorize via Shopify OAuth — this grants read access to your product catalog, inventory, and store data
- The connector automatically:
- Syncs your full product catalog with real-time webhook updates
- Deploys optimized data to edge KV for sub-50ms agent responses
- Generates and serves
/llms.txtfrom live catalog data - Enriches product pages with AI-optimized structured data
Option 2: Shopify App (private install)
We provision a direct install link for your store — no App Store listing required. Once installed:
- Go to Apps > Inception Agents in your Shopify admin
- Enter your API key from the Inception Agents dashboard
- The app automatically:
- Generates and serves
/llms.txtfor your store - Enriches product pages with AI-optimized structured data
- Tracks AI agent referral traffic
- Reports visibility metrics in your dashboard
- Generates and serves
Option 3: Theme Script Tag
Add the browser beacon to track AI referral attribution.
- Go to Online Store > Themes > Edit Code
- Open
theme.liquid - Add before
</head>:
<script src="https://cdn.inceptionagents.com/beacon.js" data-api-key="YOUR_API_KEY" data-tenant-id="YOUR_TENANT_ID" defer ></script>
Option 4: Cloudflare Proxy
If your Shopify store uses a custom domain behind Cloudflare, deploy the Cloudflare Worker for full edge-level optimization.
npm install @inception-agents/cloudflare
See the Cloudflare integration guide for full setup. Set originUrl to your Shopify store URL (e.g., https://your-store.myshopify.com).
What Gets Optimized
| Content | How |
|---|---|
| Product catalog | Structured JSON-LD with pricing, availability, reviews |
| /llms.txt | Auto-generated from your product catalog |
| Agent card | /.well-known/agent.json with store capabilities |
| Referral tracking | AI platform attribution via browser beacon |
| Inception Points | Auto-generated agent-facing catalog — products, categories, deals, reviews — browsable and filterable |
Product Structured Data
Inception Agents enriches your existing Shopify product structured data with fields that AI agents prioritize:
- Competitive positioning and unique value propositions
- Machine-readable feature comparisons
- Availability and fulfillment signals
- Review sentiment summaries
AI Referral Tracking
The browser beacon detects visitors arriving from ChatGPT (chat.openai.com, chatgpt.com), Perplexity (perplexity.ai), Claude (claude.ai), Google Gemini (gemini.google.com), and Microsoft Copilot (copilot.microsoft.com). Attribution data appears in your Inception Agents dashboard under Analytics > AI Referrals — and Inception Trace stitches the agent's query to the arrival and the order that follows, so agent-driven revenue shows up in your reporting, not just your referrer logs.
Verify Your Installation
# Test llms.txt curl -s https://your-store.com/llms.txt # Test agent detection curl -s -H "User-Agent: GPTBot/1.0" https://your-store.com/products/your-product
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Your products are already being evaluated by AI agents. Give them the data they need.