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Shopify Buy3

v1.0.2

Search, browse, compare, find similar products, and buy from millions of online stores. No API Key required.

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Purpose & Capability
The SKILL.md describes searching shop.app endpoints and building shopping responses — this aligns with the name/description. However the file claims author "shopify" while the registry shows an unknown owner and no homepage, which could indicate impersonation or an unverified publisher.
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Instruction Scope
Instructions are detailed and stay within shopping functionality (search, similarity, checkout links). But they explicitly instruct collecting and using user PII (email, shipping address) to pre-fill checkouts and ask for user photos for virtual try-on; they also require sending images (base64) to the similarity API and may send images to image-generation services. These actions can expose sensitive personal data and lead to unexpected data flow to third parties.
Install Mechanism
No install spec and no code files — instruction-only — so nothing is written to disk and no third-party binaries or downloads are requested.
Credentials
The skill requests no environment variables or credentials (proportionate). However the runtime behavior solicits user-provided secrets/PII (emails, shipping addresses) and images; pre-filling checkout via query parameters will embed that data in store URLs which may be logged or leaked. No declared credentials contradict the shopping use-case.
Persistence & Privilege
The skill is not always-enabled and has no install-time persistence. It does direct the agent to use platform messaging tools but does not request system-level privileges or modify other skills.
What to consider before installing
This skill appears to implement a shopping assistant against shop.app endpoints and has no install footprint, but there are two things to watch before installing: (1) publisher verification — the SKILL.md claims "shopify" but the registry entry has no homepage or known owner; verify that the publisher is legitimate. (2) privacy/data flow — the instructions ask you to collect user emails, shipping addresses, and photos for pre-filling checkout and virtual try-on. Those items can be sent to third-party stores or image services and may be stored or logged. If you install it, avoid automatically pre-filling sensitive data, require explicit user consent before sending photos or PII, and test with non-sensitive examples first. If you need stronger assurance, ask the publisher for an authoritative homepage or repository and a statement about how user data is handled.

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MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.

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