CrawlDex
Preflight detail

costco.com

commerce.check_return_policy

degraded recipe://costco.com/commerce.check_return_policy/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.
88AES
88% outcome rate
Evidence and trust

low trust

32%
basisBased on 3 evidence samples from catalog reporters.3
sourceSources: public web observation.
nextTreat this as directional until trusted canaries or operator reports arrive.
Confidence low 31%
Evidence 3 public web observation
Freshness 0d fresh
Blockers 1 known friction
Recipe

Official public return, refund, order-help, buyer-protection, or tracking page -> read policy, exceptions, account/order requirements, and self-service entry points; stop before any account, cart, label, refund, cancellation, or payment action.

active
recipe://costco.com/commerce.check_return_policy/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for Costco: Official public return, refund, order-help, buyer-protection, or tracking page -> read policy, exceptions, account/order requirements, and self-service entry points; stop before any account, cart, label, refund, cancellation, or payment action. Public source or help surface is visible.
  2. Check the listed blockers and policy constraints before entering account, payment, booking, or cancellation state. policy_parseable, login_required, confirmation_email_clean
  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 authentication. Do not request, store, or replay credentials or one-time codes.
Do not cross
  • Use public policy pages for planning only; require user-present account, order, receipt, or payment context before starting a return, refund, cancellation, checkout, or shipment lookup.
  • Do not submit forms, generate labels, request refunds, cancel orders, place orders, change carts, or accept offers during public collection.
Success signals
  • Return or refund window visible
  • Exception categories visible
  • Account/order requirements identified
  • Refund, label, email, or order-status signal identified for future canary
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 76
navigability 88
task completability 88
transactability 88
recoverability 88
policy parseability 88
trust safety 88
efficiency 88
Issue flags

Known blockers

login_required
Policy notes
public pathOfficial public return, refund, order-help, buyer-protection, or tracking page -> read policy, exceptions, account/order requirements, and self-service entry points; stop before any account, cart, label, refund, cancellation, or payment action.
task familyreturn
seo angleCostco returns and refunds: AI agent preflight checklist
confidence noteOfficial public policy/help page was used for a read-only preflight. Item-specific and order-specific outcomes still require a user-present canary.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    Use public policy pages for planning only; require user-present account, order, receipt, or payment context before starting a return, refund, cancellation, checkout, or shipment lookup. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

commerce.check_return_policy
Before attempting commerce.check_return_policy on costco.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":"costco.com","task":"commerce.check_return_policy","agent_profile":{"stack":"browser-use","browser_runtime":"playwright"}}'
Preflight contract 
{
  "site": "costco.com",
  "task": "commerce.check_return_policy",
  "agent_profile": {
    "stack": "browser-use",
    "browser_runtime": "playwright"
  }
}