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Step 4 — Publish

Once you’ve reviewed and approved your changes in Step 3, publishing pushes them to your live Shopify store via the Admin API.

What publishing does

  • Approved description rewrites are written to the product description field
  • Attribute mappings are written to the relevant metafields (custom.ai_color, etc.)
  • Schema markup is deployed via the Shopify Theme App Extension
  • LLMs.txt files are written to your store root
  • GTIN/MPN values are written to the product variant barcode and metafields

Each change is logged with a timestamp and the original value — this is what enables the 30-day revert capability.

What publishing does not do

  • It does not modify your theme files directly — schema changes use a non-destructive Theme App Extension
  • It does not delete or overwrite your original attribute values — attribute mappings write to new, dedicated metafields
  • It does not affect products you didn’t approve changes for

If publishing fails

Occasionally a publish operation will fail for a specific product — usually due to a Shopify API rate limit or a temporary connectivity issue. Agentic Prep will:

  1. Retry the failed operation automatically (up to 3 times)
  2. Report any changes that couldn’t be published after retries
  3. Let you re-publish failed items individually from the Results page

A partial publish (some changes succeeded, some failed) does not affect the changes that went through successfully.

After publishing

You’ll be taken to Step 5 (Results) automatically once publishing completes.