Luke
June 26, 2026, 6:42pm
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abarrus:
Hi, Luke! :waving_handt2: You’re not doing anything wrong. shopify app dev alone won’t surface your app in Sidekick’s apps list. The dev preview link works because the dev server serves your extension (and its tools.json/instructions.md) for the per-extension sandbox preview. Sidekick’s apps list is built from your app’s active deployed version, and a dev session doesn’t create one. Run shopify app deploy against your development app config to register the admin.app.tools.data extension, and it should then appear in Sidekick’s apps list. Going forward, the recommended loop is to deploy to a dedicated dev/staging app.
I had been doing shopify app deploy but I think because of this issue it wasn’t appearing still! I had to remove the tools I added to get a clean deploy.