version: "1.0.0" name: amazon-shared description: "Common Amazon Seller Central / advertising-console mechanics — marketplace TLD map, hamburger-menu hover navigation, sign-in / Ziniao auto-fill / OTP redirect handling, ad-console vs seller-central account caveat, capture rule. Prerequisite: every other amazon-* skill (amazon-ads, amazon-reports, amazon-invoice, future amazon-listing / amazon-fbn / etc.) expects this loaded for cross-cutting auth and navigation patterns."

Amazon — Shared (auth, navigation, common patterns)

This skill covers what every Amazon Seller Central or advertising- console task needs: marketplace endpoints, the hamburger-menu hover pattern, login / Ziniao / OTP handling, and the ad-console vs seller-central account caveat. Operation-specific skills (amazon-ads, amazon-reports, amazon-invoice, future amazon-listing / amazon-fbn / etc.) load this first.

1. Marketplace TLDs

Amazon Seller Central is per-country. Use the country-specific TLD in URLs — paths are usually identical.

For the canonical per-country base URLs and path table, read knowledge/project/common/amazon-sites.md — that file is the source of truth for seller-central paths (inventory, listings, orders, performance, etc.). Don't guess seller-central paths.

Unified multi-marketplace accounts: one Amazon seller-id, multiple marketplaces. Inventory differs (~10–20% of ASINs are listed on one but not the others). Listing-status enums differ (e.g. one marketplace omits DetailPageRemoved from a filter dropdown while another includes it — read the live dropdown). Custom Reports's All-Listings TSV is byte-identical across the marketplaces' subdomains (account-level). Stranded Inventory is a single pool. When debugging a specific listing, always specify which marketplace; "the inventory for store X" is ambiguous.

2. Sign-in flow (browser-side)

The first hit per session typically redirects through Amazon sign-in even if a previous Seller Central session is still good. Ziniao auto-fills the password and the OTP / 2FA code (via the 紫鸟验证码 service when configured for the store). The agent's job is to wait for the auto-fill to land, click the submit button, and let the redirect settle.

browser-use open "https://advertising.amazon.<tld>/campaign-manager"
sleep 3 && browser-use state                  # password + OTP usually pre-filled
browser-use click <signInSubmit>              # or <mfaSubmit> after OTP
sleep 5 && browser-use state                  # redirect settles

browser-use state does NOT show auto-filled input values — fields appear empty even when filled. Use browser-use get value <index> to confirm a password / OTP field was auto-filled before deciding whether to ask the user.

3. Ad-console vs Seller-Central — different accounts

For some merchants, the advertising console (advertising.amazon.<tld>) is on a different underlying Amazon account from the seller- central account (different email, different entityId), even though SSO usually bridges them transparently.

When debugging an "I logged in but it shows the wrong account" issue:

• Check the email in the Ziniao password-fill dialog.
• Check the entityId in the ad-console URL (?entityId=ENTITY[A-Z0-9]+)

— that's what's actually active.

Both indicate which account is currently signed in.

4. Hamburger-menu hover navigation

Many seller-central pages (Reports, Performance, Inventory submenus) are reachable only via the hamburger menu at top-left. The menu uses a hover-to-reveal pattern — you must hover, not click, on a parent category to reveal its submenu items.

# 1. Open the hamburger menu (opens the full sidebar overlay)
browser-use state                # find menu button (role=button inside
                                 # navigation-hamburger-menu shadow DOM)
browser-use click <menu-btn>
 
# 2. Reveal submenu by hovering
browser-use state                # find category (aria-expanded=false)
browser-use hover <category-idx> # changes aria-expanded to true; submenu appears
 
# 3. Click the submenu item
browser-use state                # find target item
browser-use click <item-idx>     # navigates to the page

Do NOT click the category name directly — clicking navigates away instead of revealing the submenu. Always hover first.

5. Capture rule

Per-run live data (campaign captures, search-term exports, screenshots, ad-spend snapshots) goes to /tmp/<run-slug>/. Never under ~/.vibe-seller/knowledge/ — that path is for codified, reusable facts about the platform, NOT per-run private business data. The catalog gets synced into agent contexts, so private data there leaks across sessions.

6. Common "always load X first" pattern

Before any browser-use call against Amazon:

1. Load browser-use skill (CLI syntax + wrapper rules).
2. Load this skill (amazon-shared) for the mechanics above.
3. Load the operation-specific skill (amazon-ads, amazon-reports,

…) and any of its references that the task needs.

The wrapper auto-starts the browser on first open, so you don't need to pre-warm the CDP proxy. Just open the URL and wait ~3s for state.

See also

• amazon-ads — Sponsored Products / Brands / Display + Coupons
• amazon-reports — Business / Fulfillment / Tax / Payments / Advertising reports
• amazon-invoice — Tax-invoice PDF generation from order data