Using Pasilobus with AI assistants and the CLI

You can bring these guides, and our apps, into the AI assistant you already use. Store owners need nothing technical: Shopify Sidekick and any chat assistant work with these pages as they are. Developers can also run our apps from the terminal with the Pasilobus CLI.

Ask Shopify Sidekick

Sidekick is the AI assistant built into your Shopify admin. Many of our apps work with it: ask about the app in your own words, from any page in your admin, and Sidekick looks the answer up in these guides. Some apps also let Sidekick fill in a form in the app for you to check and save. Nothing changes until you save. An app's help page says when it works with Sidekick.

Use any article with Claude or ChatGPT

Every article has a Use with AI menu next to its title:

• Copy page as Markdown - copies the article as plain text, ready to paste into any assistant
• View as Markdown - opens the plain-text version. You can also add .md to the end of any article's address
• Open in Claude and Open in ChatGPT - start a chat that reads the article, so you can ask about your own store

For an assistant that reads the whole help center, point it at help.pasilobus.com/llms.txt, a short index of every app and article, or llms-full.txt, every article in one file.

Run our apps from the terminal

The Pasilobus CLI runs your Pasilobus apps from the command line, for developers and for coding agents such as Claude Code. It needs Node 20 or later.

npm install -g pasilobus
pasilobus login
pasilobus use your-store.myshopify.com
pasilobus apps
pasilobus announcer help

• Signing in - pasilobus login prints a link and a code. Open the link in any browser, sign in to your Pasilobus account and approve. This works over ssh and in containers too. pasilobus logout signs out
• Stores - the CLI works on the stores linked to your Pasilobus account (the ones under Stores at cloud.pasilobus.com; a store is linked once a Pasilobus app is installed on it). pasilobus stores lists them. Choose one with pasilobus use, --shop or the PASILOBUS_SHOP variable
• Commands - pasilobus apps lists the apps on the store, and pasilobus <app> (or pasilobus <app> help) lists what that app can do. Each app brings its own commands, so they are listed by the app rather than in one reference
• Changes - the version on npm today, 0.1.0, runs a command that changes your store as soon as you enter it. Start with commands that only read, and try changes on a development store first. The next release adds a preview: a change shows what it would do and asks first, --dry-run only shows it, and --yes (or -y) applies it without asking, for scripts and agents
• Output - --json prints the result as JSON

For a coding agent such as Claude Code, a line like this in your CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md keeps you in charge: "Use the Pasilobus CLI to look things up. Ask me before running any command that changes my store."

The README on npm covers installing, signing in, choosing a store and the environment variables (as Markdown for your agent).

Connect an AI assistant (MCP, early access)

Our MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients use your Pasilobus apps directly. It is in early access: any Pasilobus account can connect now with its sign-in, and we're adding to it with developers first. Tools that change your store are marked as changes, so your assistant can ask you before running them.

• Server address - https://cloud.pasilobus.com/mcp
• Claude Code - run claude mcp add --transport http pasilobus https://cloud.pasilobus.com/mcp, then /mcp in Claude Code to sign in with your Pasilobus account
• Other clients - add a remote (HTTP) MCP server with the address above; the client opens a Pasilobus sign-in the first time

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