Shopify Sidekick Prompts That Save Time (and How to Save Them as Skills)

The difference between a merchant who gets value from Sidekick and one who tried it once is almost entirely about prompts. Sidekick reads your real store data, so a precise question returns a precise answer. A vague one returns a shrug. Here is a working set, organized by what you're trying to get done, plus how to save the ones you'll reuse.

If you're new to the assistant, start with how to use Shopify Sidekick and come back here for the prompt library.

Data and reporting prompts

This is where Sidekick saves the most time, because it collapses "open three reports and cross-reference them" into one question.

• "Show me sales, costs, profit, returns, and discounts for my top 100 products this quarter."
• "Which products had the highest return rate last month, and by how much?"
• "Show me sales by product category for the last 14 days, sorted by revenue."
• "Where is my traffic coming from this week, and which sources convert best?"
• "List customers who haven't ordered in 90 days."

The pattern: name the metric, name the scope, name the sort. Then drill in with a follow-up. After the last-90-days list, "which of these spent over 200 dollars lifetime" narrows it without you re-explaining anything.

Content prompts

Sidekick drafts product descriptions, blog posts, and images. The quality tracks how much brief you give it.

• "Write a product description for a merino wool base layer, for backcountry skiers, in a plain and technical tone. Lead with the warmth-to-weight benefit."
• "Draft three subject lines for a restock email for our sold-out olive cast-iron pan."
• "Generate a hero banner image: a bright kitchen counter with our copper kettle, warm morning light."

Notice the descriptions that work include the benefit and the audience. A model writes generic copy when you hand it a generic brief. The same discipline applies whether the writer is Sidekick or a person, which is why we treat product copy as facts a machine can quote in writing descriptions that AI can parse.

Operations prompts

• "When inventory drops below 10 units on any product tagged 'core', send a Slack alert and tag it 'reorder'." (Sidekick builds the Flow.)
• "Create a 15% discount code for email subscribers, valid two weeks."
• "Bulk-edit all products in the Summer collection to add a 'seasonal' tag."

Every one of these stages the change for your approval rather than firing it off. That confirmation step is deliberate, and it's the same boundary that governs Sidekick-powered apps, which we cover in Sidekick app extensions, explained.

Save the ones that work as skills

Once a prompt earns its keep, save it. Type / followed by a short name to create a skill, or save a prompt you've already dialed in from the prompt menu. From then on, /weekly-sales or /winback-list re-runs it instantly. You get up to 25, and you can share a skill with another merchant who adds it to their own admin.

The reason this is worth doing: the bottleneck with any assistant is remembering the phrasing that worked. A saved skill removes that entirely. Your best three prompts become three shortcuts you press without thinking.

The prompt Sidekick can't answer for you

There's one question merchants keep trying to ask Sidekick that it can't fully answer: "do my products show up when shoppers ask an AI assistant to find something like mine?" Sidekick reads your store. It does not, by itself, audit how legible your catalog is to the agents outside Shopify, or what's holding a product back in AI search.

That's the work AgentReady Signal does: it publishes and maintains the structured data and discovery files that make your store readable to AI assistants, and our Sidekick extension lets you ask the assistant directly where you rank, covered in asking Sidekick whether you show up in AI search. If you'd rather just see where you stand, the free AI readiness checker runs the scan on any storefront in about a minute. Save your prompts, and make sure the agents can read what they describe.