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Helix: The internal tool powering our Shopify app's native migration (Shopify Engineering)
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Shopify built an internal tool called Helix to help LLMs rebuild the Shopify app in Swift and Kotlin, using small checkpoints and strict quality gates to keep the code shippable.
In plain words
- Shopify built Helix to help artificial intelligence rewrite the company's app.
- The rewrite happens in small stages that must pass strict quality checks.
- These checks help Shopify's developers keep the new code ready to release.
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Sep 22, 2026 · in the sections
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