Bind the result to the account and compare it with your claim ledger and available group evidence.Use the current Risk Score and flags, plus High-Risk Events where relevant. Treat a missing or incomplete result as an explicit unverified state.
Grant eligible claims once and hold related duplicate claims for review.A shared device can serve legitimate people. Document eligibility and the review route for shared-use cases.
The runnable tutorial includes the starting app, the completed integration, and steps to test its behavior. Its application policy is stated separately from ShieldLabs detection.For implementation details, see Acting on results and Identification flow. Verify the expected domain, result age and account association, and consume protected actions atomically.
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