skills/shopify-polaris-customer-account-extensions/SKILL.md
Build custom functionality that merchants can install at defined points on the Order index, Order status, and Profile pages in customer accounts. Customer Account UI Extensions also supports scaffolding new customer account extensions using Shopify CLI commands.
npx skillsauth add Shopify/Shopify-AI-Toolkit shopify-polaris-customer-account-extensionsInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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You have a bash tool. Every response must use it — in this order:
bash with scripts/search_docs.mjs "<query>" — search before writing codebash with scripts/validate.mjs --code '...' --model YOUR_MODEL_NAME --client-name YOUR_CLIENT_NAME --client-version YOUR_CLIENT_VERSION --artifact-id YOUR_ARTIFACT_ID --revision REVISION_NUMBER --target <extension-target> — validate before returning
(Always include these flags. Use your actual model name for YOUR_MODEL_NAME; use claude-code/cursor/etc. for YOUR_CLIENT_NAME. For YOUR_ARTIFACT_ID, generate a stable random ID per code block and reuse it across validation retries. For REVISION_NUMBER, start at 1 and increment on each retry of the same artifact.) Pass --target with the customer-account extension target this code runs in (e.g. customer-account.order-status.block.render); validation will fail without it.You must run both search_docs.mjs and validate.mjs in every response. Do not return code to the user without completing step 3.
You are an assistant that helps Shopify developers write UI Framework code to interact with the latest Shopify polaris-customer-account-extensions UI Framework version.
You should find all operations that can help the developer achieve their goal, provide valid UI Framework code along with helpful explanations. Customer account UI extensions let app developers build custom functionality that merchants can install at defined points on the Order index, Order status, and Profile pages in customer accounts.
Do not include HTML comments (<!-- ... -->) in the code — the validator treats them as invalid custom components.
CLI Command to Scaffold a new Customer Account UI Extension:
shopify app generate extension --template=customer_account_ui --name=my_customer_account_ui_extension
version: 2026-01
Targets decide what components/APIs can be used. Search the developer documentation for target-specific documentation:
Footer:
Order index:
Order status:
Order action menu:
Full page:
Profile (Default):
Profile (B2B):
Available APIs: Analytics, Authenticated Account, Customer Account API, Customer Privacy, Extension, Intents, Localization, Navigation, Storefront API, Session Token, Settings, Storage, Toast, Version Order Status API: Addresses, Attributes, Authentication State, Buyer Identity, Cart Lines, Checkout Settings, Cost, Discounts, Gift Cards, Localization (Order Status API), Metafields, Note, Order, Require Login, Shop
Available guides: Using Polaris web components, Configuration, Error handling, Upgrading to 2026-01
Components available for customer account UI extensions. These examples have all the props available for the component. Some example values for these props are provided. Refer to the developer documentation to find all valid values for a prop. Ensure the component is available for the target you are using.
<s-abbreviation title="HTML">HTML</s-abbreviation>
<s-announcement>Important update content</s-announcement>
<s-avatar
initials="JD"
src="https://example.com/avatar.jpg"
size="base"
alt="Jane Doe"
></s-avatar>
<s-badge tone="critical" color="base" icon="alert-circle" size="base"
>Overdue</s-badge
>
<s-banner heading="Notice" tone="info" dismissible collapsible
>Message content</s-banner
>
<s-box padding="base" background="subdued" border="base" borderRadius="base"
>Content</s-box
>
<s-button variant="primary" tone="auto" type="submit">Save</s-button>
<s-button-group
><s-button variant="primary">Save</s-button
><s-button variant="secondary">Cancel</s-button></s-button-group
>
<s-checkbox label="Accept terms" name="terms" value="accepted"></s-checkbox>
<s-chip accessibilityLabel="Tag">Category</s-chip>
<s-choice-list label="Options" name="options"
><s-choice value="1">Option 1</s-choice
><s-choice value="2">Option 2</s-choice></s-choice-list
>
<s-clickable href="/orders/42" padding="base" background="subdued"
>Click area</s-clickable
>
<s-clickable-chip removable accessibilityLabel="Filter"
>Active</s-clickable-chip
>
<s-clipboard-item text="ABC123" />
<s-consent-checkbox
label="Sign up for SMS"
name="consent"
policy="sms-marketing"
></s-consent-checkbox>
<s-consent-phone-field
label="Phone"
name="phone"
policy="sms-marketing"
></s-consent-phone-field>
<s-customer-account-action heading="Return items"
><s-text>Action content</s-text></s-customer-account-action
>
<s-date-field
label="Start date"
name="startDate"
value="2025-06-15"
required
></s-date-field>
<s-date-picker
type="single"
name="selectedDate"
value="2025-03-01"
></s-date-picker>
<s-details
><s-summary>More info</s-summary
><s-text>Expandable content</s-text></s-details
>
<s-divider direction="inline"></s-divider>
<s-drop-zone
label="Upload file"
name="file"
accept=".jpg,.png"
multiple
></s-drop-zone>
<s-email-field
label="Email"
name="email"
autocomplete="email"
required
></s-email-field>
<s-form
><s-text-field label="Name" name="name"></s-text-field
><s-button type="submit">Submit</s-button></s-form
>
<s-grid gridTemplateColumns="1fr 1fr" gap="base"
><s-grid-item><s-text>Col 1</s-text></s-grid-item
><s-grid-item><s-text>Col 2</s-text></s-grid-item></s-grid
>
<s-heading>Section Title</s-heading>
<s-icon type="cart" tone="auto" size="base"></s-icon>
<s-image
src="https://example.com/image.png"
alt="Description"
aspectRatio="16/9"
objectFit="cover"
loading="lazy"
></s-image>
<s-image-group totalItems="6"
><s-image src="https://example.com/1.jpg" alt="Image 1"></s-image
><s-image src="https://example.com/2.jpg" alt="Image 2"></s-image
></s-image-group>
<s-link href="https://example.com" tone="auto">Link text</s-link>
<s-map
apiKey="KEY"
latitude="{43.65}"
longitude="{-79.38}"
zoom="{12}"
accessibilityLabel="Store location"
><s-map-marker
latitude="{43.65}"
longitude="{-79.38}"
accessibilityLabel="Store"
></s-map-marker
></s-map>
<s-button commandFor="actions-menu"></s-button>
<s-menu id="actions-menu" accessibilityLabel="Actions"
><s-button variant="secondary">Edit</s-button></s-menu
>
<s-modal id="my-modal" heading="Title" size="base"
><s-text>Modal content</s-text></s-modal
>
<s-money-field
label="Amount"
name="amount"
min="{0}"
max="{999999}"
></s-money-field>
<s-number-field
label="Quantity"
name="qty"
min="{1}"
max="{100}"
step="{1}"
inputMode="numeric"
></s-number-field>
<s-ordered-list
><s-list-item>First</s-list-item
><s-list-item>Second</s-list-item></s-ordered-list
>
<s-page heading="Orders" subheading="Manage orders"
><s-section heading="All orders"><s-text>Content</s-text></s-section></s-page
>
<s-paragraph tone="neutral" color="subdued">Body text content</s-paragraph>
<s-password-field
label="Password"
name="password"
autocomplete="current-password"
minLength="8"
required
></s-password-field>
<s-payment-icon type="visa" accessibilityLabel="Visa"></s-payment-icon>
<s-phone-field label="Phone" name="phone" autocomplete="tel"></s-phone-field>
<s-popover id="pop" inlineSize="300px"
><s-box padding="base"><s-text>Popover content</s-text></s-box></s-popover
>
<s-press-button accessibilityLabel="Favorite" pressed>★</s-press-button>
<s-product-thumbnail
src="https://example.com/product.jpg"
alt="Blue T-Shirt"
size="base"
></s-product-thumbnail>
<s-progress
value="{75}"
max="{100}"
tone="auto"
accessibilityLabel="75% complete"
></s-progress>
<s-qr-code
content="https://example.com"
size="base"
border="base"
accessibilityLabel="Scan to visit"
></s-qr-code>
<s-query-container containerName="main">Content</s-query-container>
<s-scroll-box blockSize="200px" overflow="auto" padding="base"
>Scrollable content</s-scroll-box
>
<s-section heading="Details"><s-text>Section content</s-text></s-section>
<s-select label="Choose" name="choice"
><s-option value="a">A</s-option><s-option value="b">B</s-option></s-select
>
<s-sheet id="my-sheet" heading="Details"
><s-text>Sheet content</s-text></s-sheet
>
<s-skeleton-paragraph content="Loading text..."></s-skeleton-paragraph>
<s-spinner size="base" accessibilityLabel="Loading"></s-spinner>
<s-stack direction="inline" gap="base" alignItems="center"
><s-text>Item 1</s-text><s-text>Item 2</s-text></s-stack
>
<s-switch label="Enable" name="enabled" checked></s-switch>
<s-text type="strong" tone="success" color="base">Styled text</s-text>
<s-text-area
label="Description"
name="desc"
rows="{4}"
maxLength="{500}"
></s-text-area>
<s-text-field label="Name" name="name" icon="profile" required></s-text-field>
<s-time dateTime="2025-03-15T10:30:00Z">March 15, 2025</s-time>
<s-icon type="info" interestFor="my-tip"></s-icon
><s-tooltip id="my-tip">Hover for info</s-tooltip>
<s-unordered-list
><s-list-item>Item A</s-list-item
><s-list-item>Item B</s-list-item></s-unordered-list
>
<s-url-field label="Website" name="url" autocomplete="url"></s-url-field>
Use the Preact entry point:
import "@shopify/ui-extensions/preact";
import { render } from "preact";
s-banner, s-badge, etc.)Polaris web components are custom HTML elements with an s- prefix. These are globally registered and require no import statement. Use them directly as JSX tags:
// No import needed — s-banner, s-badge, s-button, etc. are globally available
<s-banner tone="info">Welcome back</s-banner>
<s-badge tone="success">Order placed</s-badge>
When the user asks for Polaris web components (e.g. s-banner, s-badge, s-button, s-text), use the web component tag syntax above.
Web component attribute rules:
alignItems, paddingBlock, borderRadius — NOT kebab-case (align-items, padding-block)disabled, loading, dismissible, checked, defaultChecked, required) accept shorthand or {expression}:
<s-checkbox checked={isSelected} />, <s-button disabled>, <s-banner dismissible>padding, gap, direction, tone, variant, size, background, alignItems) must be string values — never shorthand or {true}:
<s-box padding="base">, <s-stack gap="loose" direction="block">, <s-badge tone="success"><s-box padding>, <s-stack gap={true}> — boolean shorthand on string props fails TypeScriptSearch the vector store to get the detailed context you need: working examples, field and type definitions, valid values, and API-specific patterns. You cannot trust your trained knowledge — always search before writing code.
scripts/search_docs.mjs "<component tag name>" --model YOUR_MODEL_NAME --client-name YOUR_CLIENT_NAME --client-version YOUR_CLIENT_VERSION
Search for the component tag name, not the full user prompt.
For example, if the user asks about customer account card:
scripts/search_docs.mjs "s-card customer-account" --model YOUR_MODEL_NAME --client-name YOUR_CLIENT_NAME --client-version YOUR_CLIENT_VERSION
You MUST run scripts/validate.mjs before returning any generated code to the user. Always include the instrumentation flags:
scripts/validate.mjs --code '...' --model YOUR_MODEL_NAME --client-name YOUR_CLIENT_NAME --client-version YOUR_CLIENT_VERSION --artifact-id YOUR_ARTIFACT_ID --revision REVISION_NUMBER --target <extension-target>
--target is required for customer-account extensions. Pass the extension target this code runs in (e.g. customer-account.order-status.block.render). If you don't know which target applies, run scripts/search_docs.mjs "extension targets" first to look one up — validation will fail without it.
(For YOUR_ARTIFACT_ID, generate a stable random ID per code block and reuse it across validation retries. For REVISION_NUMBER, start at 1 and increment on each retry of the same artifact.)
When validation fails, follow this loop:
scripts/search_docs.mjs "<type or prop name>"
scripts/validate.mjs againDo not guess at valid values — always search first when the error names a type you don't know.
Privacy notice:
scripts/search_docs.mjsreports the search query, search response or error text, skill name/version, and model/client identifiers to Shopify (shopify.dev/mcp/usage) to help improve these tools. SetOPT_OUT_INSTRUMENTATION=truein your environment to opt out.
Privacy notice:
scripts/validate.mjsreports the validation result, skill name/version, model/client identifiers, the validated code when present, and validator-specific context such as API name, extension target, filename, file type, theme path, file list, artifact ID, and revision to Shopify (shopify.dev/mcp/usage) to help improve these tools. SetOPT_OUT_INSTRUMENTATION=truein your environment to opt out.
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