{
  "slug": "shopify-app-dev-creates-dev-stores-inline-3748e53bd9da",
  "title": "shopify app dev creates dev stores inline",
  "tools": [
    "shopify"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "introduced_at": "2026-09-09T08:15:04.000Z",
  "announced_at": "2026-09-09T08:15:04.000Z",
  "effective_at": null,
  "date_basis": "source-publication",
  "status": "unknown",
  "how": {
    "incantation": "When using App Management with no usable development store, run `shopify app dev` and create a store in its interactive flow. When stores already exist, choose “Create a new dev store” in the picker to create one and continue the preview; the official CLI docs describe the interactive picker but do not document this new choice.",
    "examples": [
      "shopify app dev"
    ],
    "gotchas": [
      "Version: 4.8.0",
      "Prerequisite: Shopify CLI requirements: Node.js 22.12 or higher, a Node.js package manager, and Git 2.28.0 or higher.",
      "The inline flow is for interactive `app dev` using App Management.",
      "Only `app dev` opts into store creation; other `storeContext` callers default to `disabled`.",
      "The store-picker create option applies to organizations that already have stores and depends on the inline creation flow from PR #8323."
    ]
  },
  "why_it_matters": "Start `app dev` for an App Management organization that has no usable development store, or select another store when the organization already has stores.",
  "before": "With no usable development store, interactive `app dev` dead-ended at the Developer Dashboard; with existing stores, developers had to leave the CLI to create another store.",
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/Shopify/cli/releases/tag/4.8.0",
    "https://github.com/Shopify/cli/pull/8323",
    "https://github.com/Shopify/cli/pull/8397",
    "https://shopify.dev/docs/api/shopify-cli/app/app-dev",
    "https://shopify.dev/docs/api/shopify-cli"
  ],
  "rank": 0.9803,
  "judge": {
    "publish": true,
    "judge_model": "codex-cli/gpt-6-luna+typesafe/jev-1.13.0",
    "prompt_version": "extract-v7+enrich-v2+judge-v2x3+jev-publish-v1"
  },
  "review_state": "approved",
  "provenance": {
    "run_id": "wave2a-20261017",
    "verdict_id": "wave2a-20261017:wave2a-20261017-a337af08931cecce-2:gate",
    "evidence_hash": "39042346ff429b906fe48c3a4ffbc6a3e26414ffd9df8987044e5ddca8a0a9e1"
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  "review": {
    "draft_hash": "5346498c4aa012006d8205d6a43ba6e320f28428f319d5cc42227eead1ace264",
    "reviewer": "publication-gate",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
    "decision": "wave2a-20261017:gate",
    "reason": "3 of 3 judge runs approved with p_yes >= 0.9 (mean 0.98 >= 0.9; 2 needed) and Jev gave 0.69 (>= 0.6 needed)."
  }
}