On May 18, 2026, Shopify published @shopify/ucp-cli to npm — a command-line tool and MCP server it describes as "a shopping skill for AI agents, powered by the Universal Commerce Protocol." Within days it's at v0.5.0, MIT-licensed, open on GitHub. The pitch, from Ilya Grigorik's launch post: millions of Shopify merchants natively speak UCP, billions of products are discoverable through a global catalog, and now any agent can learn to shop them with two commands:
npm install -g @shopify/ucp-cli
ucp skills add
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