Shopify Just Released an AI Agent That Reviews Your App Before Shopify Does If you've ever submitted an app to the Shopify App Store, you know the drill. You build for weeks, hit submit, wait days for review, get rejected for something you could have caught in five minutes, fix it, resubmit, and wait again. Weeks of back-and-forth for issues that should never have made it to a human reviewer. Shopify just fixed that. What Changed On April 20, 2026, Shopify shipped three updates to the app submission process that fundamentally change how developers get apps approved: 1. AI-Powered Self-Review Tool Before you submit your app, you can now run an AI agent against your codebase that checks compliance with Shopify's App Store requirements. It takes about two minutes. You get a compliance report that tells you what's passing, what needs fixing, and why. Here's how it works: on your app submission page, you'll find a pre-built prompt.…