# Rabbot in Shopify Sidekick

> Ask Shopify Sidekick about your store and Rabbot answers from its own checks, through 8 tools that also search Rabbot's docs.
> Published: 2026-10-14
> Updated: 2026-10-14
> Canonical: https://rabbot.ai/integrations/shopify-sidekick/

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- **Tools:** Eight tools
- **Plans:** Every plan (Free, Starter, Growth and Pro)

## What Sidekick is

Shopify describes Sidekick as an AI-enabled commerce assistant in the Shopify admin. It presents changes for your review before applying them [1]. Rabbot adds tools that Sidekick can call when you ask about the state of your store.

## What Rabbot does with it

You ask in plain words, inside the conversation you are already in, and the answer comes back there. Rabbot's tools cover the overall state of your store, what is blocking sales, open problems by area (search, storefront, site), one product page, how to fix a named check, and what broke recently within the history your plan keeps.

Every answer describes Rabbot's last completed check. Rabbot runs its own schedule against your pages and your feed, and Sidekick reads what that schedule has already recorded. Nothing is crawled while you wait. Each answer states which pages and checks it covers, and an empty answer is never an all clear. [What an answer never contains](/docs/sidekick/what-an-answer-never-contains/) explains why.

Two of the tools read Rabbot's own documentation. They search and fetch the published pages at rabbot.ai/docs, so Sidekick can answer how Rabbot works, and what an alert means and how to fix it, with a link to the page in the [check reference](/docs/checks/). Those two read public content and nothing from your store. [The things you can ask about](/docs/sidekick/the-sidekick-tools/) lists them all.

The same record feeds your dashboard, your alerts, and the [MCP server](/docs/mcp/what-the-mcp-server-is/). Sidekick answers about search issues use the same checks that the [Shopify SEO guide](/guides/shopify-seo/) describes.

## How to connect

There is no token and no config file. Install Rabbot, open Sidekick, and approve the short consent card the first time Sidekick asks Rabbot in a conversation. If Sidekick answers from somewhere else, start the question with "Using Rabbot," or turn Rabbot on from the Apps picker in the composer.

[What Rabbot answers inside Sidekick](/docs/sidekick/what-sidekick-answers-are/) and [how to ask Sidekick about your store](/docs/sidekick/how-to-ask-sidekick/) walk through the first question. [Troubleshooting Rabbot in Sidekick](/docs/sidekick/troubleshooting-sidekick/) covers steering it.

## What the tools cover

- Eight tools answer from Rabbot's records. A product, theme, redirect or setting changes in Shopify, never through Sidekick.
- You apply a fix yourself, or Sidekick applies it with your own permissions, and Rabbot confirms it on the next check of that page.
- An answer describes the last completed check. If you fixed something an hour ago, the next check confirms it.
- Google, Meta, and TikTok (Beta) verdicts are not sent to Sidekick on any plan.
- Answers carry no order or customer data and no sales figure.
- Answers stay on your store and never pitch a plan change.

## Sources

- [1] [Shopify Help Center: Shopify Sidekick](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-admin/productivity-tools/sidekick)