Is ShopCTL still maintained? + Thoughts on AI agents and tooling

Hi @ankitpokhrel,

I recently came across ShopCTL while searching for a solid terminal-based Shopify management tool, and I have to say this is exactly the kind of utility I've been looking for. The POSIX-style composable commands, multi-store context support, and the ability to pipe everything straight into CI/CD pipelines is brilliantly designed. I read through your Medium post and the examples directory, and it's clear this fills a real gap for developers who live in the terminal.

I noticed the repo is marked as [WiP], so I wanted to ask: is ShopCTL still under active development? Do you have any plans or roadmap for where you'd like to take it next?

I also wanted to get your take on something that's been on my mind lately. Shopify open-sourced their [AI Toolkit](https://github.com/Shopify/Shopify-AI-Toolkit) on April 9, 2026 it connects Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and other AI coding agents directly to Shopify's documentation, API schemas, and even store execution capabilities via MCP. Watching this unfold, I keep coming back to a question: in a world where AI agents can execute store operations through natural language, where does a purpose-built CLI tool like ShopCTL fit?

But the more I think about it, the more I suspect the opposite might be true. Claude Code and similar agents are fundamentally shell-native — they think in commands, pipelines, exit codes, and structured output. A tool like ShopCTL, with its clean POSIX interface and JSON/CSV export support, could actually become the perfect building block that AI agents compose with. Rather than having the agent wrestle with raw GraphQL queries and pagination, it could leverage shopctl product list --json and pipe that into whatever transformation it needs. The tool becomes a force multiplier: the CLI handles the Shopify-specific complexity, and the agent handles the reasoning and orchestration on top.

I'd love to hear your perspective have you thought about how tools like Claude Code or Cursor might interact with or even amplify what ShopCTL can do? Do you see this AI shift as a threat to developer CLI tools, or as an opportunity to make them even more valuable as composable primitives?

Thanks for building this it's a genuinely useful project.