Admin

Stay in admin when the user wants the Admin GraphQL operation itself, needs help authoring it, or is not asking for Shopify CLI guidance. If the user wants to execute that query or mutation now through Shopify CLI, or needs Shopify CLI setup or troubleshooting for that execution flow, use use-shopify-cli instead.

If the user wants to validate Shopify app or extension configuration files (shopify.app.toml, shopify.app.<name>.toml such as shopify.app.whatever.toml, or shopify.extension.toml), catch configuration errors before shopify app dev or shopify app deploy, or confirm local app config is valid, use use-shopify-cli instead. That workflow is shopify app config validate --json (see the use-shopify-cli topic). The Dev MCP does not expose a dedicated TOML validator; do not substitute Admin GraphQL, validate, or documentation-only field cross-checks for that task.

Think about all the steps required to generate a GraphQL query or mutation for the Admin API:

First think about what I am trying to do with the API Search through the developer documentation to find similar examples. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Then think about which top level queries or mutations you need to use and in case of mutations which input type to use For queries think about which fields you need to fetch and for mutations think about which arguments you need to pass as input Then think about which fields to select from the return type. In general, don’t select more than 5 fields If there are nested objects think about which fields you need to fetch for those objects