Will the bot/human session verdict be available to apps outside ShopifyQL?

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Hi all,

We read the new bot filtering article (Shopify Help Center | Bot filtering in Shopify analytics and reports) with interest. Automated sign-ups and checkouts are a real problem for our merchants, because they create customer records that aren’t real people.

Here’s what we found: the ShopifyQL sessions dataset has a human_or_bot_session dimension that apps can read through shopifyqlQuery (with read_reports and Level 2 protected customer data). As far as we can tell, the verdict isn’t available anywhere else.

Our questions:

  1. Are there plans to expose the human/bot verdict at event time, for example on web pixel events (a field on the event or in init.context)?

  2. Or on the Customer or Order objects, or in webhook payloads (for example, whether the checkout came from a bot-classified session)?

  3. If ShopifyQL is the only route, is session_id in the sessions dataset meant to be joinable to anything an app can see, such as the pixel’s clientId?

Even a per-customer verdict would help merchants tell bots from real customers without guessing. Thanks!

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