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CrawlPod for Shopify

CrawlPod for Shopify is an agentic-readiness audit for your storefront: it checks whether AI shopping agents and answer engines can actually read, understand, and cite your products and pages, and tells you exactly what's blocking them. It is notan llms.txt generator — Shopify already serves one natively on every store, and an app can't override that. Still in development, not yet released.

What is CrawlPod for Shopify?

It's the same agentic-readiness checking that powers the free scannerand the WordPress plugin, built for a Shopify storefront: product pages, collection pages, and the theme's structured data, audited against the six categories AI answer engines actually weight — crawlability, structure, entity signals, citation readiness, content, and authority.

Who it's for

Shopify merchants who want to know whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI shopping agents can actually find and recommend their products — without hiring a developer to figure out what's wrong.

The honest scope — what this app does and doesn't do

Since 2026-05-29, every Shopify store serves a native /agents.md file by default, with /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt redirecting to the same content. This is a platform-level feature — no app, including this one, can override or replace it via an app proxy or redirect. The only way to customize it is a theme template (templates/agents.md.liquid, optionally split via llms.txt.liquid/llms-full.txt.liquid), and robots.txt is theme-only too, via robots.txt.liquid.

So CrawlPod for Shopify doesn't generate or serve either file — it audits what your store is already serving (including whether your agents.mdis still Shopify's unmodified default, the same provenance check the scanneralready does for Shopify sites) and tells you exactly what to change in your theme code to fix it. The audit is the product; file generation isn't a capability an app can offer on this platform.

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