Shap-User is the user-directed fetcher operated by Parallel Web Systems. It retrieves a page because a user or agent asked for that specific page through Parallel's APIs, and is not used for automated crawling; bulk indexing runs under ShapBot instead. Because its requests are user-initiated, Parallel documents it as identification rather than something to control through robots.txt.

At a glance

Operator: Parallel Web Systems
Type: AI Assistant
RSL category: ai-input

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

Shap-User publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, AI Assistant.

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