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govinfo.gov

legal_admin.lookup_federal_publication

healthy recipe://govinfo.gov/legal_admin.lookup_federal_publication/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.
86AES
86% 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

Search authenticated federal publications: U.S. Code, CFR, Federal Register, public laws. Fully public with an API.

active
recipe://govinfo.gov/legal_admin.lookup_federal_publication/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for GovInfo (GPO): Search authenticated federal publications: U.S. Code, CFR, Federal Register, public laws. Fully public with an API. 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
  • Cite GovInfo as the authenticated official source for federal documents.
  • Provide informational workflow guidance only, not legal advice.
Success signals
  • Authenticated PDF retrieved
  • Citation confirmed
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 86
navigability 86
task completability 86
transactability 86
recoverability 86
policy parseability 86
trust safety 86
efficiency 86
Issue flags

Known blockers

none
Policy notes
public pathSearch authenticated federal publications: U.S. Code, CFR, Federal Register, public laws. Fully public with an API.
task familylookup
seo angleGovInfo for Authenticated Federal Law and Regulations
confidence noteAuthoritative GPO source, fully public with API.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    Cite GovInfo as the authenticated official source for federal documents. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

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