GitHub - finsilabs/awesome-ecommerce-skills

Awesome E-Commerce Skills

A curated collection of 178 ready-to-use e-commerce skills that make AI assistants dramatically better at helping you run and grow your online store.

What Are Skills?

Skills are expert instructions that teach AI assistants how to help you with specific e-commerce tasks. Think of them as cheat sheets — when your AI assistant has the right skill loaded, it gives you better advice, recommends the right apps and tools for your platform, and walks you through setup step by step.

Without a skill, an AI assistant gives you generic advice that may not work for your platform or suggests building everything from scratch.

With a skill, the same assistant knows which Shopify app to install, which WooCommerce plugin to configure, and walks you through the exact settings — only suggesting custom code when you actually need it.

We tested every skill with Tessl automated evaluations. On average, skills improve AI output quality from 66% to 96% — a +31% improvement across 177 skills.

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, and any AI assistant that supports context files.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• How It Works
• Works With Your Platform
• Eval Results
• Top 10 Starter Skills
• All Categories
• Curated Bundles
• Browse All Skills
• Contributing
• License

Getting Started

Option 1: Via Tessl (recommended)

Tessl lets you install skills directly into your project with one command.

# Install the Tessl CLI
curl -fsSL https://get.tessl.io | sh

# Install any skill by name
tessl install finsi/stripe-integration
tessl install finsi/checkout-flow-optimization

Option 2: Copy manually

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/finsilabs/awesome-ecommerce-skills.git

# Copy any skill into your project's AI context folder
cp -r awesome-ecommerce-skills/skills/payments-checkout/stripe-integration/SKILL.md \
  your-project/.claude/skills/

That's it. Your AI assistant will automatically use the skill the next time you ask it to work on that topic.

How It Works

You: "Set up abandoned cart recovery for my Shopify store"

AI without skill:                    AI with skill:
  Writes a custom Node.js cron job     Knows Shopify has built-in recovery emails
  Builds an email queue from scratch   Recommends Klaviyo for multi-step flows
  Ignores your existing platform       Configures the right triggers and timing
  Misses SMS opt-in compliance         Includes SMS consent and TCPA compliance

Each skill contains:

• Platform-specific guidance — recommends the right apps, plugins, and built-in features for Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and custom setups
• Step-by-step setup instructions — with real navigation paths like "Go to Settings → Checkout → Abandoned checkouts"
• Best practices — drawn from real-world e-commerce experience
• Common pitfalls — mistakes to avoid on each platform

Works With Your Platform

Every skill includes setup instructions for the platforms merchants actually use. No assumptions about custom code — skills recommend the right tool for your platform first.

Shopify

Skills teach your AI which Shopify apps and built-in features to use — and how to configure them:

You: "Add a loyalty points system to my Shopify store"

AI + loyalty-points-system skill:
  → Compares Smile.io vs Yotpo Loyalty for your use case
  → Explains how to set up point-earning rules and redemption tiers
  → Shows where to add the rewards widget in your theme
  → Covers VIP tier configuration and points expiration

We also have 7 Shopify-specific skills covering the Admin API, Storefront API, theme development, checkout extensions, webhooks, metafields, and app development.

WooCommerce

Skills know which WordPress plugins solve each problem and how to configure them:

You: "Set up subscription billing for my WooCommerce store"

AI + subscription-billing skill:
  → Compares WooCommerce Subscriptions ($199/yr) vs SUMO Subscriptions
  → Explains subscription product setup and billing intervals
  → Covers failed payment retry rules and dunning
  → Shows how to add subscriber management to My Account

We have 5 WooCommerce-specific skills for plugin development, Blocks, REST API, subscriptions, and performance.

BigCommerce

Skills cover BigCommerce's built-in features and app marketplace:

You: "Add product reviews to my BigCommerce store"

AI + product-reviews-ratings skill:
  → Explains when built-in reviews are enough vs when to use Yotpo/Stamped
  → Covers review request email setup after purchase
  → Shows how to enable Google Rich Snippets for review stars in search
  → Explains moderation settings and review approval workflows

Headless / Custom Platforms

For headless setups (Next.js, Remix, etc.), skills provide actual code — but still recommend SaaS tools (Klaviyo API, Stripe Checkout) over building everything from scratch:

You: "Add Stripe payments to my headless store"

AI + stripe-integration skill:
  → Explains why Stripe Checkout (hosted) is better than custom forms for PCI
  → Provides Payment Intents API code with SCA/3D Secure compliance
  → Includes webhook handler code for order fulfillment
  → Covers Stripe Tax setup for automatic tax calculation

We have 8 headless-specific skills covering Shopify Hydrogen, Medusa, Saleor, Commerce.js, JAMstack, and PWA storefronts.

Also Supported: Magento (4 skills) and Salesforce Commerce Cloud (3 skills)

How does this actually work? You copy a skill file into your project (or install via tessl install). Your AI assistant reads it automatically — no configuration needed. The next time you ask it to help with that topic, it follows the skill's platform-specific instructions instead of guessing. The skill tells it which apps to recommend, what settings to configure, and what mistakes to avoid for your specific platform.

Eval Results

Every skill is tested using Tessl automated evaluations. Each eval gives an AI assistant a realistic e-commerce task, then scores the output against a detailed checklist. We run each task twice — once without the skill (baseline) and once with it — to measure the real improvement.

Across 177 skills tested:

Biggest improvements:

Top 10 Starter Skills

New to this? Start here. These are the most commonly needed skills for any e-commerce project.

All Categories

178 skills organized into 17 categories. Click any category to browse its skills.

Curated Bundles

Don't know where to start? Pick a bundle based on your role.

See bundles.json for the full skill lists in each bundle.

Browse All Skills

See CATALOG.md for the complete list of all 178 skills with descriptions, tags, and evaluation scores.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Whether you want to improve an existing skill or add a new one:

1. See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines
2. Check out the skill template to get started
3. Run npm run validate to check your skill before submitting

Built by Finsi

This project is maintained by the team behind Finsi OS — an AI-powered operating system for e-commerce brands. Finsi connects your entire stack (ads, email, retention, profitability), analyzes what matters, and acts on it automatically. If these skills help your AI assistant give better advice, Finsi takes it further by running your growth operations end-to-end.

Start a free 30-day pilot →

License

MIT