Shopify: vendor profile
In short
Shopify lets a theme publish llms.txt and llms-full.txt through Liquid templates beside agents.md, an option its developer changelog added on 2026-05-28. One Shopify storefront answered a markdown request with a text/markdown header and an HTML body. Basic costs $29 a month billed yearly.
At a glance
standards.txt shopify
llms-txt = supports
markdown-negotiation = no statement
markdown-twin = no statement
initial-html = supports
real-404 = no statement
vary-accept = no statement
2 supports, 0 partial or announced, 4 no statement.
Shopify Site builder
Shopify is a hosted commerce platform whose Online Store themes render Liquid templates on the server, serve agents.md with llms.txt mirrors, a 404 template, a generated robots.txt and sitemap, and JSON-LD through a Liquid filter.
- Type
- Site builder
- Home page
- www.shopify.com, answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05
- Last read
- 5 November 2026
What it does for this layer
- Liquid, the template language Shopify themes are written in, was created by Shopify and is published as an open-source project on GitHub. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- A Shopify theme's 404 page comes from templates/404.json, and the theme docs suggest no objects for it beyond making clear that the page was not found. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Asked by curl 8.7.1 for a made-up path, the Shopify storefront www.allbirds.com returned HTTP 404 with a 421,495-byte HTML page and Vary: Accept on 2026-11-05. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- On 2026-11-05 the same Shopify storefront answered a curl 8.7.1 request with Accept: text/markdown on its home page with a text/markdown content type and Vary: Accept, yet the 702,741-byte body opened as an HTML document. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Shopify's developer changelog of 2026-05-28 introduced llms.txt.liquid and llms-full.txt.liquid next to agents.md.liquid, each edited under Online Store, Themes, Edit code. [primary source, 2026-05-28] source, read 5 November 2026.
- www.allbirds.com served /llms.txt to curl 8.7.1 on 2026-11-05 as text/markdown rather than text/plain, 5,793 bytes long, with Vary: Accept. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Shopify keeps the theme-root AGENTS.md, a file of up to 50 KB that briefs coding agents such as Sidekick, apart from the public /agents.md, and never serves the theme-root file on the storefront. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Shopify generates a default robots.txt, and a robots.txt.liquid file in the theme's Templates folder replaces that output, with the robots object supplying the default rule groups. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Shopify's structured_data Liquid filter turns a product into schema.org Product, or ProductGroup when it has variants, and an article into schema.org Article, for the theme to print inside a JSON-LD script tag. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Every Shopify store generates sitemap.xml at the root of each of its domains, linking separate sitemaps for products, collections, blogs and pages, and refreshes it when content is added. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- The Shopify pricing page read on 2026-11-05 listed Basic at $29 a month billed yearly or $39 monthly, Grow at $79, Advanced at $299 and Plus from $2,300 a month. [primary source, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
Products and plans
| Product | What it is | Price | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shopify plans | Hosted store plans that include the Online Store theme storefront. | From USD 29 Basic, per month billed yearly; $39 billed monthly | 2026-11-05 | source |
| Shopify Plus | Enterprise commerce plan. | From USD 2,300 per month | 2026-11-05 | source |
Standards
| Standard | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| llms-txt | supports | Every store has a default agents.md, and /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt point to that content unless a theme template overrides them. | source |
| markdown-negotiation | no statement | No statement in the theme, changelog or Liquid docs read; a storefront home page answered Accept: text/markdown on 2026-11-05 with a markdown content type on an HTML body. | source |
| markdown-twin | no statement | No statement about per-page markdown copies found; agents.md and llms.txt are store-level files. | none |
| initial-html | supports | Online Store themes are Liquid templates that Shopify renders with store data; headless Hydrogen storefronts are not covered by the pages read. | source |
| real-404 | no statement | The 404 template docs do not give the status code; a storefront returned 404 for a made-up path on 2026-11-05. | source |
| vary-accept | no statement | No statement found; storefront responses on 2026-11-05 carried Vary: Accept. | source |
Checks on its own site
| Reading | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Home page request | HTTP 200; H1 in the initial HTML: yes; 564 words; 0 JSON-LD blocks | 2026-11-05 |
| Request with Accept: text/markdown | HTTP 200, text/html, Vary: accept-encoding | 2026-11-05 |
| /llms.txt at the host root | HTTP 200, text/plain, 12 KB, starts with an H1 | 2026-11-05 |
| A made-up path | HTTP 404 | 2026-11-05 |
| Ora score, cached | 72, grade B | 2026-11-04 |
| Cloudflare keyless scan | 20, L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 |
| Shared crawl row | Tranco rank 171; home page HTTP 200; H1 in the HTML: yes; 1,133 words; JSON-LD types: none; answers markdown: no; made-up path HTTP 404; llms.txt valid: yes | 2026-11-04 |
What it does not do
- Shopify does not serve the theme-root AGENTS.md to shoppers or shopping agents; only agents.md.liquid output reaches /agents.md.
Related pages on this site
- Site builders in this section
- Shopify themes: platform profile and rubric scores
- The Plain Fetch viewer
Sources
- Shopify: home page https://www.shopify.com/, read 5 November 2026
- Liquid reference | Shopify Dev https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid, read 5 November 2026
- 404 template | Shopify Dev https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/404, read 5 November 2026
- Customize /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt and /agents.md | Shopify developer changelog https://shopify.dev/changelog/posts/customize-llmstxt-llms-fulltxt-and-agentsmd, read 5 November 2026
- AGENTS.md | Shopify Dev https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/agentic-workflows/agents-md, read 5 November 2026
- Customize robots.txt | Shopify Dev https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/seo/robots-txt, read 5 November 2026
- Liquid filters: structured_data | Shopify Dev https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/structured_data, read 5 November 2026
- Finding and submitting your sitemap | Shopify Help Center https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/promoting-marketing/seo/find-site-map, read 5 November 2026
- Shopify Pricing https://www.shopify.com/pricing, read 5 November 2026
Last reviewed 5 November 2026