Mechanic now includes a built-in AI assistant called
Ask Mechanic
. It's available directly inside the app, look for the ✨ button in the bottom-right corner of any page.Ask Mechanic has access to Mechanic's complete documentation and Shopify's GraphQL Admin API schema and docs (Shopify Dev MCP), so it can answer platform questions, help you find the right task from the library, and explain how features work, all without leaving the app.
What it can do
Ask Mechanic can search Mechanic's task library, pull up full task code and documentation, look up Shopify's Admin API, and validate your GraphQL queries. When it suggests a task, you can open the code directly in the task editor with one click.
A few things worth knowing
- Conversations are preserved as you navigate between pages, and your last few conversations are saved so you can pick up where you left off.
- You can paste task exports, Liquid scripts, or logs directly into the chat for analysis. Ask Mechanic will walk through the code with you.
- Ask Mechanic identifies your installed tasks by name, but it can't see your task code or option values - your configuration stays private. To get help with a specific task's code, paste the relevant export or snippet into the chat.
For developers
Ask Mechanic is a great starting point, but if you're writing tasks in an AI coding tool like Claude or Codex, check out the full suite of AI tools for Mechanic — including the MCP server for searching docs and the task library, and Agent Skills for task-writing skillls.