urning existing APIs into AI tools automatically (looking for Shopify apps to test with)

Agentic Commerce
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Hi everyone,

I’m building a developer tool called Parlex that automatically converts existing backend APIs into AI-callable tools.

The idea is simple:
instead of manually defining tools for AI agents, the system observes real API traffic and generates tools automatically.

This allows AI agents (ChatGPT, Gemini, internal assistants, etc.) to safely perform actions in existing systems.

For example in eCommerce systems:

• check order status
• cancel orders
• create discounts
• update inventory
• retrieve customer data

without writing manual tool definitions.

I’m currently looking for a few companies to test this with real production APIs.

Shopify apps seem like a great fit since many of them expose operational APIs.

If anyone here is building a Shopify app or backend product and experimenting with AI agents, I’d love to connect and show what we’re building.

Happy to share a short demo.

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Hey @Parlex, interesting use case here.

I would recommend if you haven’t already to create your own development store and app to test this out. Scaffold an app

In my experience, setting up a tool to allow an agent to introspect the API scheme is enough to help them perform pretty much any action on the store that it’s scoped to.