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AI skills for Claude Code

Last updated on Jul 14, 2026

AI skills for Claude Code

Skills are packaged workflows for AI coding assistants. Each one teaches the assistant a complete job on the theme: what to ask you, which files to touch, which rules to follow, and how to verify the result. They come free with the theme, part of the Elade AI kit at elade.io/ai-kit/freedom.

This article assumes the base setup from Edit the theme with AI assistants (duplicated theme, pulled code, assistant installed).

Install

With Claude Code, add the plugin:

claude plugin marketplace add elade-io/elade-ai-kit
claude plugin install freedom@elade-ai-kit

With Codex, add the marketplace, then run /plugins inside Codex and install Freedom from the Elade AI kit:

codex plugin marketplace add elade-io/elade-ai-kit

Manual alternative (no plugin): download the kit and copy the skills folders into .claude/skills/ (Claude Code) or .agents/skills/ (Codex) inside your theme folder. Both load skills from there too.

How to use them

Open Claude Code inside your theme folder (the one you pulled, with CLAUDE.md in it) and describe what you want in plain words. Keep a live preview running in a second terminal so you can watch each change land:

shopify theme dev --store your-store.myshopify.com

Claude picks the right skill on its own, or you can name it ("run personalize"). It asks any questions it needs, edits your local files, and shows you the result to review in that preview. When you are happy, check-and-push (or a manual shopify theme push) sends it to your duplicate, and you publish from Shopify admin. The full flow is in Edit the theme with AI assistants.

New to the kit? Start with personalize to replace the demo copy with your own.

The plugin installs the skills for every Claude Code project, but they only do their job inside a theme folder, where CLAUDE.md gives Claude the theme's full rulebook.

The skills

new-section. Builds a new section. It first checks whether your idea is achievable by composing the theme's existing blocks (no code, fully update-safe), and only then writes a new section file that follows the theme's architecture: correct settings vocabulary, design tokens, reveal animations, and a preset so the section appears in the editor picker.

Try: "Use new-section to build a press logos strip with a heading and five logos."

new-block. Builds a new reusable block you can place inside any section, group, or column. Same architecture guarantees as above.

Try: "Use new-block to create a stat counter block: big number, label under it."

personalize. Interviews you about your brand (voice, selling points, policies), then replaces the theme's placeholder copy with your real copy across the home page and templates, keeping the designed layout intact. Your answers are saved to STORE.md, so you are never asked twice.

Try: "Run personalize, home page first."

translations. Keeps the theme's six built-in languages complete and consistent: finds missing strings, adds translations for your custom sections, and reuses the theme's existing vocabulary in each language.

Try: "Check translations after the changes we made this week."

check-and-push. The safety gate before deploying. Runs the theme checks, sweeps for the silent failures Shopify only catches at upload, pushes to your duplicate theme, and verifies the output honestly (the Shopify CLI can report success even when a file failed).

Try: "Run check-and-push."

after-update. Runs after you update the theme to a new version. It reads the customizations log in STORE.md, checks every custom file, code edit, and added translation against the updated theme, and restores anything the update dropped.

Try: "We just updated the theme. Check my customizations."

Notes

  • Skills never edit your published theme; everything targets the duplicate you point them at.
  • Skills log their work (new files, decisions you made) in STORE.md next to the theme code. Keep that file: it is the shared memory across sessions and across AI tools.
  • Assistants without skill support: the same knowledge ships in the kit's AGENTS.md, so you can ask for the same jobs in plain words ("create a new section like new-section describes").