Decisions API went GA with EU/US inference residency and prompt caching added since beta, plus a doubled per-request question cap. Here's what changed.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Shopify now lets theme developers bundle a storefront app with a Theme Store listing. Here's how the one-per-theme and ownership rules actually work.
Apps & Product Engineering · 3 min
OpenAI's Agents API lets you pre-warm sandboxes for lower latency and now bills compute only during active turns — but three separate expiry timers still apply.
Automation & AI · 4 min
Editing an unfulfilled order's shipping address now recalculates its taxes as of API 2026-10 — and apps must reconcile the resulting balance change themselves.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
Shopify's new batch fulfillment groups up to 250 orders in the Admin UI, but there's no documented API for it. Here's what that means for automation.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
Shopify CLI 4.0 removed --force from app deploy. Here's exactly what --allow-updates and --allow-deletes now require from an unattended pipeline.
Apps & Product Engineering · 3 min
OpenAI's Responses API now offers a 12-hour cache lifetime at 2.5x the write cost. Here's the rate math that decides whether it's worth it.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Shopify loosened its inventory transfer APIs in 2026-01. Here's exactly what became optional, what stayed draft-only, and how referenceName fits in.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
OpenAI's computer-use tool makes your app approve every website origin an agent visits — but that approval doesn't cover what the agent does once it's there.
Automation & AI · 3 min
OpenAI's GPT-Live can now call the Decisions API directly mid-call. Here's what native delegation handles, and what your application still has to do.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Shopify is replacing split shipping with rate consolidation — and 3PL, OMS, and ERP integrations working at order level are most likely to break.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
Shopify Flow can auto-buy shipping labels by condition, but the action silently skips orders assigned to a third-party fulfillment service.
Automation & AI · 3 min
OpenAI collapsed five usage tiers into three — Build, Launch, and Grow. Here's what each tier's threshold and rate limits mean for pipeline throughput.
Automation & AI · 2 min
OpenAI's new Decisions API returns typed probability answers instead of generated text — built for classification, routing, and scoring, not chat.
Automation & AI · 3 min
OpenAI's new Ultrafast tier for GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol isn't just a speed upgrade — the two models ship different data-residency guarantees.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Shopify's new bundle-size exception process spells out exactly which causes of UI extension bloat get approved — and which get an automatic no.
Apps & Product Engineering · 3 min
API 2026-07 moves merchant shipping to Markets. deliveryProfile reads go stale, writes fail silently — what readers and writers must change.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
Shopify Flow no longer blocks workflows when an action's config fields change — your endpoint has to handle every version instead.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Shopify's 2026-10 API stopped auto-adding new carrier services to the General shipping profile — here's the silent failure mode and the fix.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
Shopify's new Checkout WebMCP tools let browser agents read, update, and submit checkout — but only after the buyer explicitly confirms the order.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Shopify Functions execute in a fixed 17-step order during checkout — and the resource limits every function shares, regardless of position.
Apps & Product Engineering · 3 min
Shopify raised the active-function limit per API from 5 to 25. The per-execution resource ceiling didn't move — here's what that combination actually changes.
Apps & Product Engineering · 4 min
Shopify's Physical Inventory feature preview adds bins, counts, and read-only purchase orders to the unstable Admin API, with explicit reconciliation math.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
OpenAI's Responses API has three different non-blocking features. Here's the mechanical difference between async tool calling, background mode, and mid-turn steering.
Automation & AI · 4 min
Shopify's AI self-review checks App Store code requirements before you submit — but listing content, live behavior, and UX still need a human reviewer.
Apps & Product Engineering · 3 min
Shopify's Sidekick now surfaces app extensions that declare only intents — and an unconfigured shopify.app.toml can fail your next deploy.
Apps & Product Engineering · 3 min
OpenAI's API now separates slow_down 429s from server_is_overloaded 503s — and automation pipelines that treat them the same waste retries or get throttled.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Shopify's Fulfillment Constraints Function API blocks split shipments at checkout — but its own reference code fails open, not closed.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
Shopify extended Dev Dashboard health monitoring to custom apps on Sept 25. Here are the concrete failure-rate and response-time numbers worth alerting on.
Apps & Product Engineering · 3 min
OpenAI's tool_search lets agents load only the function definitions they need at runtime, instead of every tool up front.
Automation & AI · 3 min
OpenAI's Agents API is in public beta with a managed Codex harness. Before adopting it, teams need to weigh the sandbox choice and two compliance limits.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Shopify renamed session tokens to ID tokens. Here's what a custom backend must validate — and how to handle expiry correctly.
Apps & Product Engineering · 3 min
Shopify's shippingLabelPurchase mutation only starts a label purchase — here's the polling pattern that keeps your fulfillment automation honest.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
Managed Pricing is now Shopify App Pricing, and it doesn't send Billing API webhooks for subscription changes. Here's what app teams need to change.
Apps & Product Engineering · 4 min
A new Shopify Flow action runs ShopifyQL queries on a schedule and turns the results into automation triggers, not just dashboard numbers.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Shopify's new fulfillmentOrderReportProgress mutation lets 3PLs post status updates mid-fulfillment, plus two webhooks and stricter cancel/move errors.
Operations & Fulfillment · 3 min
OpenAI's Assistants API sunset on August 26, 2026. Here's what automation pipelines actually need to rebuild for the Responses and Conversations APIs.
Automation & AI · 3 min
Generating ad creative with AI and auto-launching it to ad platforms are different risk levels that need different automation guardrails.
AI Automation · 3 min
Shopify's native return flow handles the basics for free. Here's when to automate with Flow, and when an app like Return Prime or Loop earns its cost.
Shopify · 6 min