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sec.gov

legal_admin.search_edgar_filings

healthy recipe://sec.gov/legal_admin.search_edgar_filings/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 0 none
Recipe

EDGAR Full-Text Search -> keyword/company/CIK, filter by form type and date -> open filing and exhibits. Fully public, no login.

active
recipe://sec.gov/legal_admin.search_edgar_filings/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for SEC EDGAR: EDGAR Full-Text Search -> keyword/company/CIK, filter by form type and date -> open filing and exhibits. Fully public, 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
  • Respect SEC fair-access rate guidance and declared user-agent.
  • Provide informational workflow guidance only, not legal advice.
Success signals
  • Filing index retrieved
  • Specific form (10-K, 8-K, S-1) and exhibits opened
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

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

Known blockers

none
Policy notes
public pathEDGAR Full-Text Search -> keyword/company/CIK, filter by form type and date -> open filing and exhibits. Fully public, no login.
task familylookup
seo angleSearching SEC EDGAR Filings With an AI Agent: A No-Login Walkthrough
confidence noteFull-text search covers electronic filings since 2001 and is fully public; only rate/user-agent etiquette applies.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    Respect SEC fair-access rate guidance and declared user-agent. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

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