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    Shopify Catalog Ops and Custom Product Strategy

    Codex session that turned RPS Shopify catalog work into a more durable operating system: local branch cleanup, catalog-health prioritization, source-image alt text, artist attribution, collection strategy, custom-product route planning, and a lightweight PDP-native product-studio direction.

    Source

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    codex
    Captured
    5/20/2026, 11:23:43 AM

    Highlights

    • Restored a clean Shopify storefront work surface by clearing stale worktrees, preserving unrelated navigation work, and returning local work to current main before catalog execution resumed.
    • Moved recurring catalog records toward a durable catalog documentation home instead of burying ongoing master-changelog material inside one project evidence folder.
    • Prioritized source/original artwork image alt text, artist attribution, and collection structure as the highest-leverage catalog-health lanes for agentic search.
    • Established that artist meaning belongs in the dedicated artist metafield, while vendor and product type should not be overloaded with creator attribution.
    • Converged the custom-products direction around category routes that send customers directly to PDPs, with all customization happening on the PDP and a lightweight native product-studio layer as the next strategic model.

    Source conversation

    Source conversation

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    Actions and follow-ups

    Actions Taken

    • Cleaned the Shopify local working setup enough for main-based catalog work and documented which work remained isolated.
    • Ran catalog-health prioritization, duplicate-image scoping, source-image alt-text rollout planning, artist-attribution planning, and collection strategy discussion from one continuous Codex thread.
    • Created public-safe Hyphenomenon intake media summarizing the session's catalog-operating-system and decision-map value without publishing the private session transcript.
    • Reviewed the session transcript privately from the local Codex JSONL and converted it into a sanitized chat intake artifact.

    Actions Outstanding

    • Verify the synced Hyphenomenon chat route renders the public-safe summary, highlights, decisions, and images while showing no public transcript source.
    • Link the resulting chat object to the canonical Shopify Headless and RPS Digital project records where useful.
    • Continue separate catalog execution in the Shopify repo using the durable catalog documentation system rather than this chat artifact as the source of truth.

    Decisions

    • Keep navigation design work separate from catalog cleanup so main can stay usable for local catalog execution.
    • Treat source/original artwork image alt text as a high-impact fill-only catalog-health lane for agentic search.
    • Use durable catalog documentation and master changelog records for recurring catalog work instead of storing the catalog master changelog inside a dated evidence folder.
    • Treat the artist metafield as the canonical creator-attribution field, and avoid overloading vendor or product type with artist meaning.
    • Model custom-product discovery as /custom-art -> product-type/category route -> direct PDP/custom product page, with all customization handled on the PDP.
    • Use Gelato as a reference and possible fulfillment layer, not as the primary customer-facing editor for the headless storefront.

    Tags

    source:codexdomain:commercedomain:catalogproject:shopify-headlesstopic:agentic-searchtopic:catalog-opstopic:artist-attributiontopic:custom-productstopic:product-studioentity_type:ai_context

    Decision evidence

    Reviewed catalog decisions map
    Reviewed catalog decisions map

    Public-safe decision map for catalog field boundaries, catalog documentation, and PDP-native custom-product strategy.

    Decision-linked

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