# Big Commerce API for AI Agents

Reach more people. Drive more sales. Sync, automate, and optimize your data across 150+ leading marketplaces, social commerce, and advertising channels. Call the Big Commerce API from the agent stack you already run. Swytchcode supplies the manifest, then handles authentication, retries, idempotency, and validation on every call.

## Copy paste to your AI agent

Build me a Big Commerce AI assistant  
Set up https://www.swytchcode.com/skills.md

[Visit official site](https://www.bigcommerce.com/) [View documentation](https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/docs/overview/quick-start)

**Provider**: Big Commerce  
**Category**: General  
**License**: Proprietary  
**Manifest**: big_commerce  
**Official site**: [www.bigcommerce.com](https://www.bigcommerce.com/)  
**API docs**: [View docs](https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/docs/overview/quick-start)

## Use cases

### What can you build with the Big Commerce API?

1. Call Big Commerce directly from an AI agent without writing custom auth, retry, or error-handling code.
2. Get the right endpoints and call sequence for the workflow you need, instead of having the agent explore the Big Commerce API surface.
3. Chain Big Commerce with other approved integrations in one workflow, each step validated against your policy before it runs.
4. Give an agent safe read/write access to Big Commerce in production, with idempotent retries if a call fails.

## Setup guide

### How to connect the Big Commerce API to an AI agent

Four steps, no SDK, no boilerplate. Every Big Commerce call routed through Swytchcode is idempotency-keyed and safe to retry.

1. **Install the CLI**  
Run "npx swytchcode" to install the Swytchcode CLI—no account required to start.

2. **Pull the manifest**  
Run "swytchcode get big_commerce" to pull the Big Commerce API manifest, including its schema and available actions.

3. **Authenticate once**  
Provide your Big Commerce API credentials a single time. Swytchcode stores and refreshes them so your agent never handles raw secrets.

4. **Call it from your agent**  
Run "swytchcode exec big_commerce.<action> --key value" from any agent or script. No SDK, no framework lock-in.

**Copy**
```
swytchcode get big_commerce
swytchcode exec big_commerce.<action> --key value
```

## FAQ

### Frequently asked questions

- **What is Swytchcode?**
- **How do I get started with Swytchcode?**
- **How does an AI agent actually call the Big Commerce API through Swytchcode?**
- **What happens if a Big Commerce call fails, times out, or hits a rate limit?**
- **Can I restrict which Big Commerce actions my agent is allowed to run?**
- **Where does Swytchcode store my Big Commerce credentials?**
- **Do I need to write a custom Big Commerce SDK integration for my agent?**
- **How is calling Big Commerce through Swytchcode different from calling its API directly?**
- **Do I need a specific framework to call Big Commerce?**
- **Does Swytchcode log what my agent does with Big Commerce?**

### Build me a Big Commerce AI assistant

Copy the prompt into your agent. It will load Swytchcode and wire up Big Commerce.

Set up https://www.swytchcode.com/skills.md