CrawlDex
Preflight detail

gov.uk

legal_admin.lookup_company_uk

healthy recipe://gov.uk/legal_admin.lookup_company_uk/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.
87AES
87% 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 0 none
Recipe

Find and update company information -> search by name/number -> filings, officers, accounts; fully public and free, no login.

active
recipe://gov.uk/legal_admin.lookup_company_uk/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for UK Companies House: Find and update company information -> search by name/number -> filings, officers, accounts; fully public and free, no login. 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
  3. Stop before any irreversible or user-sensitive action and ask for explicit approval. User approval is captured before final action.
Human approval
Evidence is not strong enough for unsupervised execution. Collect more evidence or keep a human operator in the loop.
Do not cross
  • UK-specific registry; do not conflate with US entity data.
  • Provide informational workflow guidance only, not legal advice.
Success signals
  • Company profile with status and officers
  • Filing history retrieved
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 87
navigability 87
task completability 87
transactability 87
recoverability 87
policy parseability 87
trust safety 87
efficiency 87
Issue flags

Known blockers

none
Policy notes
public pathFind and update company information -> search by name/number -> filings, officers, accounts; fully public and free, no login.
task familylookup
seo angleUK Companies House Lookup: Free Public Company Data for Agents
confidence noteAuthoritative UK registry, fully public and free; verified service URL.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    UK-specific registry; do not conflate with US entity data. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

legal_admin.lookup_company_uk
Before attempting legal_admin.lookup_company_uk on gov.uk, 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":"gov.uk","task":"legal_admin.lookup_company_uk","agent_profile":{"stack":"browser-use","browser_runtime":"playwright"}}'
Preflight contract 
{
  "site": "gov.uk",
  "task": "legal_admin.lookup_company_uk",
  "agent_profile": {
    "stack": "browser-use",
    "browser_runtime": "playwright"
  }
}