CrawlDex
Preflight detail

apartmentlist.com

real_estate_moving.search_rental

degraded recipe://apartmentlist.com/real_estate_moving.search_rental/public-preflight-v1
Hold / Collect evidence first

Do not trust this route yet

The current evidence set is too thin for a confident agent decision.

Next: Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
63AES
63% outcome rate
Evidence and trust

low trust

32%
basisBased on 2 evidence samples from catalog reporters.2
sourceSources: public web observation.
nextTreat this as directional until trusted canaries or operator reports arrive.
Confidence low 27%
Evidence 2 public web observation
Freshness 0d fresh
Blockers 3 known friction
Recipe

Public rental listing or search surface lets an agent compare listings, fees, amenities, commute details, and availability before any contact or application step.

active
recipe://apartmentlist.com/real_estate_moving.search_rental/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for Apartment List: Public rental listing or search surface lets an agent compare listings, fees, amenities, commute details, and availability before any contact or application step. Public source or help surface is visible.
  2. Check the listed blockers and policy constraints before entering account, payment, booking, or cancellation state. forced_account_creation, hidden_fee, dynamic_dom_unstable, policy_parseable
  3. Stop before any irreversible or user-sensitive action and ask for explicit approval. User approval is captured before final action.
Human approval
Keep the user present for payment, price, fee, booking, or purchase confirmation. Stop before any final transaction.
Do not cross
  • Do not submit contact forms, applications, tours, screening data, or payments without explicit user approval.
  • Flag missing fees, stale availability, broker fees, and suspicious listings for human review.
Success signals
  • Listings and filters visible
  • Price, address/area, amenities, fees, or availability parsed
  • Contact/apply boundary identified
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 63
navigability 51
task completability 63
transactability 51
recoverability 63
policy parseability 63
trust safety 51
efficiency 51
Issue flags

Known blockers

forced_account_creationhidden_feedynamic_dom_unstable
Policy notes
public pathPublic rental listing or search surface lets an agent compare listings, fees, amenities, commute details, and availability before any contact or application step.
task familycompare
seo angleApartment List Rental Search: AI Agent Public Preflight
confidence noteOfficial public listing surfaces can be reviewed without mutating action; availability and fees still need user verification before outreach.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • highagent
    Do not submit contact forms, applications, tours, screening data, or payments without explicit user approval. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
  • highagent
    Require total-price verification immediately before final submission. Reduces high-regret transaction errors.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

real_estate_moving.search_rental
Before attempting real_estate_moving.search_rental on apartmentlist.com, check CrawlDex. Current verdict: Collect evidence first. Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
curl -sS -X POST /api/v1/preflight \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"site":"apartmentlist.com","task":"real_estate_moving.search_rental","agent_profile":{"stack":"browser-use","browser_runtime":"playwright"}}'
Preflight contract 
{
  "site": "apartmentlist.com",
  "task": "real_estate_moving.search_rental",
  "agent_profile": {
    "stack": "browser-use",
    "browser_runtime": "playwright"
  }
}