Allow non-interactive `app init` by nickwesselman · Pull Request #6640 · Shopify/cli

nickwesselman · 2025-11-19T21:36:22Z

WHY are these changes introduced?

The app init command has interactive prompts that are impossible to bypass. This prevents scripting and some agentic use.

(Agentic use may still be difficult as the agent needs to obtain the organization ID, but this puts us a step closer.)

WHAT is this pull request doing?

Add organization-id flag to suppress organization selection
Ensure name flag suppresses interactive linking and name prompts
Adds unit tests for init command
Moves SHOPIFY_FLAG_CLIENT_ID environment definition in our GitHub actions to the acceptance test job specifically (where it's needed), since it was breaking the new app init tests

How to test your changes?

The following commands should all be successful:

shopify app init --organization-id <org-id> --name test --template remix --flavor javascript | cat

shopify app init --organization-id <org-id> --name test --template none | cat

# no org id needed with a partners token
export SHOPIFY_CLI_PARTNERS_TOKEN=<your cli token>
shopify app init  --name test --template none | cat

The following should fail:

# with device login / no partner token
shopify app init --organization-id <NOT-your-org-id> --name test --template remix --flavor javascript | cat

Measuring impact

How do we know this change was effective? Please choose one:

n/a - this doesn't need measurement, e.g. a linting rule or a bug-fix
Existing analytics will cater for this addition
PR includes analytics changes to measure impact

Checklist

I've considered possible cross-platform impacts (Mac, Linux, Windows)
I've considered possible documentation changes

nickwesselman · 2025-11-19T22:14:30Z

Will need to figure out why unit tests are failing. Works on my machine ™️.

gonzaloriestra · 2025-11-20T10:43:03Z

/snapit

github-actions · 2025-11-20T10:45:42Z

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If the versions don't match, you might have multiple global instances installed.
Use which shopify to find out which one you are running and uninstall it.

packages/app/src/cli/commands/app/init.ts

github-actions · 2025-11-20T13:53:19Z

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nickwesselman · 2025-11-21T13:18:55Z

Allow non-interactive app init #6640 👈 (View in Graphite)
Block Partners API for 3P devs #6645
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nickwesselman · 2025-11-21T13:20:41Z

Converted PR to Draft to avoid merging before required server-side changes.

github-actions · 2025-11-21T13:25:26Z

Differences in type declarations

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packages/cli-kit/dist/public/node/environment.d.ts

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ export declare function jsonOutputEnabled(environment?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): bool
 /**
  * If true, the CLI should not use the Partners API.
  *
- * @returns True if the SHOPIFY_CLI_NEVER_USE_PARTNERS_API environment variable is set.
+ * @returns True when SHOPIFY_CLI_NEVER_USE_PARTNERS_API is set or SHOPIFY_CLI_1P_DEV is not set.
  */
 export declare function blockPartnersAccess(): boolean;
 /**

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nickwesselman · 2025-12-22T14:04:47Z

Still relevant.

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nickwesselman · 2026-02-06T13:21:11Z

Should we merge this now that we have app limits?

gonzaloriestra · 2026-02-23T09:23:38Z

/snapit

github-actions · 2026-02-23T09:26:26Z

🫰✨ Thanks @gonzaloriestra! Your snapshot has been published to npm.

Test the snapshot by installing your package globally:

npm i -g --@shopify:registry=https://registry.npmjs.org @shopify/cli@0.0.0-snapshot-20260223092423

Caution

After installing, validate the version by running shopify version in your terminal.
If the versions don't match, you might have multiple global instances installed.
Use which shopify to find out which one you are running and uninstall it.

gonzaloriestra

Tested again, all good! 👍

dmerand

This works as expected! I added a small note about error messages.

dmerand · 2026-02-23T21:06:32Z

packages/app/src/cli/commands/app/init.ts

+        // If an organization-id is provided, fetch the organization directly
+        const matchingOrg = await developerPlatformClient.orgFromId(flags['organization-id'])
+        if (!matchingOrg) {
+          throw new AbortError(


Nit: I did not get this helpful message when sending a non-integer as a parameter -- just got a bare GraphQL error. Perhaps we could use typing or otherwise be more defensive about input?

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nickwesselman changed the base branch from main to graphite-base/6640 November 21, 2025 13:18

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nickwesselman changed the base branch from graphite-base/6640 to block-partners-for-3p November 21, 2025 13:18

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Block Partners API for 3P devs #6645

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nickwesselman added 9 commits February 19, 2026 11:27

add organization-id flag to suppress organization selection

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ensure --name flag suppresses interactive name prompt

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add unit tests for init command

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remove unused mocks

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added changeset

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update dev docs

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only apply SHOPIFY_FLAG_CLIENT_ID to acceptance tests

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improve org error message

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Use orgFromId to validate organization

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nickwesselman force-pushed the allow_noninteractive_app_init branch from 37f0070 to c717875 Compare February 19, 2026 16:28

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