Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) / X

Ilya Grigorik

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Ilya Grigorik

@igrigorik

Distinguished Engineer, @Shopify. On a mission to make commerce better for everyone.

Portland, OR

Joined November 2007

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Ilya Grigorik
@igrigorik
May 19
@tobi and I sat down to talk UCP and the art of protocol design. A couple of themes worth expanding on... The hard part of good protocol design isn't the spec. It's the deep understanding of the problem you're solving and the humility to approach it at the right level. Commerce
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Ilya Grigorik
@igrigorik
7h
Shipped AgentBoard 0.9, huge upgrade. 👉 github.com/igrigorik/Agen… You can now mount a local workspace that will auto load your AGENTS.md, IDENTITY.md, etc. Better yet, it unlocks read+write support for MEMORY.md — the agent can save and retrieve context across threads, and
Ilya Grigorik
@igrigorik
Jul 24
This was epic. Batteries at 190%. LFG.
Harley Finkelstein
@harleyf
Jul 24
The best week of the year. There's no team like @Shopify. 💚
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Ilya Grigorik
@igrigorik
Jul 24
Aligned... :shut-up-and-take-my-money-gif:
Mikhail Parakhin
@MParakhin
Jul 24
The team prepared this for me for our Shopify Summit. Actually, I only say “actually” when I say I don’t say “actually”!
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Ilya Grigorik
@igrigorik
Jul 23
Fun chat. I stand by my claim: Shopify's Global Catalog is *the* gold rush opportunity of 2026. It's open, it's free, and it's agent ready to power discovery-to-checkout. Docs @ shopify.dev/docs/agents/ca… Demos: x.com/vlaurenlee/sta… UCP deep-dive: x.com/igrigorik/stat…
Ecomm Cowboy
@ecommcowboy
Jul 23
"This is the biggest @ShopifyDevs opportunity right now." @igrigorik, Distinguished Engineer at Shopify, shared more about the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and what's coming next during DotDev. The major moments: - UCP is a free, public, global catalogue API. Only
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