🧑‍💻Task library

Browse and install hundreds of pre-built Mechanic tasks for common Shopify automation workflows.

Mechanic's task library is a compendium of e-commerce automation tasks and documentation, written by the Mechanic community and the Mechanic core team. Hosted on GitHub, everything is open-sourced under the highly permissive MIT license, making all library tasks appropriate for re-use and modification.

To browse the task library, visit tasks.mechanic.dev.

Installing a task

1. Browse tasks.mechanic.dev or navigate to the Add task page in the Mechanic app to find a task that fits your needs

2. Click "Try this task" on the task page — this opens the task directly in your Mechanic account

3. Configure any task options (settings fields) as needed

4. Click Save to activate the task

Once installed, a library task is your own copy. You can modify the code, change options, or adjust subscriptions to fit your specific requirements.

When building a new task, it's often easier to start from an existing library task and modify it, rather than writing a task from scratch. Searching tasks.mechanic.dev is a good place to start.

Mechanic support covers unmodified tasks from the task library. Once you modify a library task's code, it becomes a custom task, and support is limited to platform-level issues. For help with custom tasks, see Get help with a custom task

What's in the library

The library includes hundreds of tasks covering common Shopify automation patterns, including:

• Tagging — auto-tag orders, customers, and products based on conditions

• Notifications — send emails, Slack messages, or other alerts on Shopify events

• Inventory — monitor stock levels, sync inventory across locations

• Order management — fulfill, cancel, or modify orders automatically

• Product management — publish, hide, or update products based on rules

• Data feeds — generate scheduled CSV or email reports

• Integrations — connect with external services like Google Sheets, Airtable, and more

Contributing and requesting

The Mechanic community can request new tasks – see Requesting.

The task library is open for contributions, by way of pull requests – see Contributing.