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I gave AI agents write access to Shopify stores. This is risky. A wrong answer is a mistake. A wrong discount code sends free products out your door.
I built five guardrails to keep stores safe.
Read-only by default. Most people use one key for everything. Do not do this. Make tokens read-only. You must opt-in to allow writes.
Server-side ceilings. Do not rely on prompts for limits. Prompts are suggestions. Use hard limits in the code. If an agent asks for a 250% discount, the system blocks it.
Sort by risk. Low risk tasks like tagging a customer are fine. High risk tasks like mass messages must end as a draft. A human must hit send.
Strict schemas. Avoid free-text inputs. Use typed data. This turns mistakes into clear errors.
Full logs. Record every call. Record the token and the time. You need an audit trail for when things go wrong.
Safe AI is boring engineering. Assume your agent is wrong some of the time.
I have one worry. An agent might make 50 small, valid changes. Together, these changes ruin a store.
How do you handle this problem?