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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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5 min

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What happens when you install

01

Install the Shopify App

Find Inception Agents in the Shopify App Store and click Install. Authorize the app to access your store data.

02

Enter your API key

Go to Apps > Inception Agents in your Shopify admin. Paste your API key from the Inception Agents dashboard.

03

We analyze your catalog

The app syncs your product catalog, generates llms.txt, creates enriched structured data, and deploys everything automatically.

04

Agents start seeing optimized data

AI shopping agents visiting your store now receive machine-readable content tailored to how each platform evaluates products.

Commerce Protocols

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.

Before and after Inception Agents

Without Inception Agents

  • -- 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

With Inception Agents

  • + 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

Integration Guide

Complete setup instructions

Choose the integration method that works best for your store.

Option 1: Shopify App (Recommended)

Install the Inception Agents Shopify App from the Shopify App Store.

  1. 1 Go to Apps > Inception Agents in your Shopify admin
  2. 2 Enter your API key from the Inception Agents dashboard
  3. 3
    The app automatically:
    • Generates and serves /llms.txt for your store
    • Enriches product pages with AI-optimized structured data
    • Tracks AI agent referral traffic
    • Reports visibility metrics in your dashboard

Option 2: Theme Script Tag

Add the browser beacon to track AI referral attribution.

  1. 1 Go to Online Store > Themes > Edit Code
  2. 2 Open theme.liquid
  3. 3 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 3: 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

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)
Microsoft Copilot (copilot.microsoft.com)

Attribution data appears in your Inception Agents dashboard under Analytics > AI Referrals.

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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