CrawlDex
Preflight detail

ucas.com

education.apply_uk_university

degraded recipe://ucas.com/education.apply_uk_university/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.
79AES
79% 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

Register a UCAS account -> add courses (up to 5) -> personal statement/references -> pay and submit. Public guides explain steps; submission requires login.

active
recipe://ucas.com/education.apply_uk_university/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for UCAS: Register a UCAS account -> add courses (up to 5) -> personal statement/references -> pay and submit. Public guides explain steps; submission requires login. 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
  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
  • Keep the user present for any login, identity verification, or payment step.
  • Personal statement is the applicant's own work; do not fabricate or submit.
  • Provide informational workflow guidance only, not education or admissions advice.
Success signals
  • Application submitted confirmation
  • Track shows choices and offers
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 67
navigability 79
task completability 79
transactability 79
recoverability 79
policy parseability 79
trust safety 79
efficiency 79
Issue flags

Known blockers

login_required
Policy notes
public pathRegister a UCAS account -> add courses (up to 5) -> personal statement/references -> pay and submit. Public guides explain steps; submission requires login.
task familyapply
seo angleApplying to UK Universities via UCAS: How It Works
confidence notePublic application guidance documented; submission requires the applicant's account.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    Keep the user present for any login, identity verification, or payment step. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

education.apply_uk_university
Before attempting education.apply_uk_university on ucas.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":"ucas.com","task":"education.apply_uk_university","agent_profile":{"stack":"browser-use","browser_runtime":"playwright"}}'
Preflight contract 
{
  "site": "ucas.com",
  "task": "education.apply_uk_university",
  "agent_profile": {
    "stack": "browser-use",
    "browser_runtime": "playwright"
  }
}