CrawlDex
Preflight detail

thetrainline.com

travel.manage_ground_transport

degraded recipe://thetrainline.com/travel.manage_ground_transport/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.
83AES
83% 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 28%
Evidence 2 public web observation
Freshness 0d fresh
Blockers 1 known friction
Recipe

Official help or manage-trip surface documents train or bus trip lookup, ticket changes, refunds, or cancellation rules.

active
recipe://thetrainline.com/travel.manage_ground_transport/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for Trainline: Official help or manage-trip surface documents train or bus trip lookup, ticket changes, refunds, or cancellation rules. Public source or help surface is visible.
  2. Check the listed blockers and policy constraints before entering account, payment, booking, or cancellation state. login_required, policy_parseable, 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
  • Do not cancel, exchange, or buy tickets without explicit user approval.
  • Check fare class, ticket channel, and carrier rules before presenting refund expectations.
Success signals
  • Ticket or trip-management path identified
  • Refund/change policy visible
  • Confirmation email or voucher expected after user-approved action
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 71
navigability 83
task completability 83
transactability 83
recoverability 83
policy parseability 83
trust safety 83
efficiency 83
Issue flags

Known blockers

login_required
Policy notes
public pathOfficial help or manage-trip surface documents train or bus trip lookup, ticket changes, refunds, or cancellation rules.
task familycancel
seo angleTrainline Train and Bus Tickets: Can AI Agents Change or Cancel Safely?
confidence noteOfficial public support pages expose the flow; ticket-specific eligibility requires booking details.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    Do not cancel, exchange, or buy tickets without explicit user approval. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

travel.manage_ground_transport
Before attempting travel.manage_ground_transport on thetrainline.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":"thetrainline.com","task":"travel.manage_ground_transport","agent_profile":{"stack":"browser-use","browser_runtime":"playwright"}}'
Preflight contract 
{
  "site": "thetrainline.com",
  "task": "travel.manage_ground_transport",
  "agent_profile": {
    "stack": "browser-use",
    "browser_runtime": "playwright"
  }
}