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Sherpa Coder
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VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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Shopify AI Toolkit
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Free official toolkit that wires Claude Code, Cursor and similar AI coding tools into Shopify's docs, schemas and CLI for app building.
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Core features
- ✦Fast tensor operations
- ✦Differentiable tensors for gradient-based optimization
- ✦Network connectivity
- ✦Integration with Bun and Flashlight
- ✦Support for GPU computation with CUDA (Linux) and CPU computation (macOS)
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- ✦in-editor chat with OpenAI assistants
- ✦workspace source-code context sharing
- ✦support for custom, user-defined assistants
- ✦secure management of the user's OpenAI account
- ✦One-command plugin install for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and more
- ✦Bundled Shopify documentation and GraphQL API schemas for agents
- ✦Built-in code validation against Shopify's implementation rules
- ✦Store execute capability so an agent can act on a real Shopify store via CLI
- ✦Optional granular install of individual agent skills
- ✦Local Dev MCP server option requiring no authentication
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Use cases
- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
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- →getting coding help without switching out of VS Code
- →using a personalized OpenAI assistant tuned to a project
- →quick in-editor Q&A while writing code
- →Scaffolding and building Shopify apps with an AI coding assistant
- →Validating app code against Shopify's platform rules before shipping
- →Letting an agent manage a Shopify store through natural-language CLI commands
- →Connecting Shopify's developer docs directly into an editor's AI chat
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