Allow non-interactive app init

[nickwesselman]

WHY are these changes introduced?

The app init command has interactive prompts that are impossible to bypass. This prevents scripting and some agentic use.

(Agentic use may still be difficult as the agent needs to obtain the organization ID, but this puts us a step closer.)

WHAT is this pull request doing?

• Add organization-id flag to suppress organization selection
• Ensure name flag suppresses interactive linking and name prompts
• Adds unit tests for init command
• Moves SHOPIFY_FLAG_CLIENT_ID environment definition in our GitHub actions to the acceptance test job specifically (where it's needed), since it was breaking the new app init tests

How to test your changes?

The following commands should all be successful:

shopify app init --organization-id <org-id> --name test --template remix --flavor javascript | cat

shopify app init --organization-id <org-id> --name test --template none | cat

# no org id needed with a partners token
export SHOPIFY_CLI_PARTNERS_TOKEN=<your cli token>
shopify app init  --name test --template none | cat

The following should fail:

# with device login / no partner token
shopify app init --organization-id <NOT-your-org-id> --name test --template remix --flavor javascript | cat

Measuring impact

How do we know this change was effective? Please choose one:

• n/a - this doesn't need measurement, e.g. a linting rule or a bug-fix
• Existing analytics will cater for this addition
• PR includes analytics changes to measure impact

Checklist

• I've considered possible cross-platform impacts (Mac, Linux, Windows)
• I've considered possible documentation changes

[nickwesselman]

Will need to figure out why unit tests are failing. Works on my machine ™️.

[gonzaloriestra]

/snapit

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🫰✨ Thanks @gonzaloriestra! Your snapshot has been published to npm.

Test the snapshot by installing your package globally:

npm i -g --@shopify:registry=https://registry.npmjs.org @shopify/cli@0.0.0-snapshot-20251120104339

Caution

After installing, validate the version by running just shopify in your terminal.
If the versions don't match, you might have multiple global instances installed.
Use which shopify to find out which one you are running and uninstall it.

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Test suite run success

3797 tests passing in 1450 suites.

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[nickwesselman]

• Allow non-interactive app init #6640 👈 (View in Graphite)
• Add retries + consolidate downloads in get-graphql-schemas #6968
• main

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[nickwesselman]

Converted PR to Draft to avoid merging before required server-side changes.

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Differences in type declarations

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New type declarations

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Existing type declarations

packages/cli-kit/dist/public/node/environment.d.ts

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ export declare function jsonOutputEnabled(environment?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): bool
 /**
  * If true, the CLI should not use the Partners API.
  *
- * @returns True if the SHOPIFY_CLI_NEVER_USE_PARTNERS_API environment variable is set.
+ * @returns True when SHOPIFY_CLI_NEVER_USE_PARTNERS_API is set or SHOPIFY_CLI_1P_DEV is not set.
  */
 export declare function blockPartnersAccess(): boolean;
 /**

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[nickwesselman]

Still relevant.

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[nickwesselman]

Should we merge this now that we have app limits?

[dmerand]

I have a few automated review follow-ups that might clean this up since it hasn't shipped yet.

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