Fix the catalog
Taxonomy and metafields: how to make a catalog AI can read
By Ankit Minocha, founding team at Atomz. Updated May 25, 2025.
The mechanics of mapping products to the Shopify Standard Product Taxonomy and writing attributes to metafields.
A readable catalog has two things: every product mapped to the Shopify Standard Product Taxonomy, and the attributes for each product written to metafields. That is the layer an agent reads.
The taxonomy
The Shopify Standard Product Taxonomy is an open classification of categories and the attributes that belong to each. Mapping to it is what makes your products legible to agents and search engines that already expect that structure.
The metafields
Metafields are where structured attributes live in Shopify, things like material, fit, use case, and compatibility. They stay in your store, owned by you and readable by every tool that reads metafields.
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