fix(agent): drive LinkedIn's SDUI Easy Apply dialog (#403); 1.66.2

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Closes #403

Since about 2026-09-30, every LinkedIn Easy Apply run has failed with Timeout 15000ms exceeded, and 44 Ready rows were stuck on it. LinkedIn moved Easy Apply to its SDUI front end. The button still opens the dialog, but the dialog is now a native <dialog> with generated class names and none of the data-* hooks the driver waited for.

Change. The driver keeps the old selectors and adds the new ones:

• the dialog: dialog[open] that holds [data-sdui-screen*=easyapply]
• Next / Review / Submit application found by their text; Dismiss by its aria-label
• fields read from label[for] / aria-label; radio options from the <p> beside each one; résumé cards and the top-choice box skipped
• errors that appear only after a refused Next (helper-text <p>, or a <p> after the fieldset)
• Follow found by aria-label^="Follow " and unticked before Submit
• the "Save this application?" prompt, which is now a second <dialog>
• the mobile number, now left blank, answered from the packet's standard phone

Verified

• Mapped the live dialog on pluto through the agent's own browser and session. The probe walked Contact → Resume → Top choice → Questions → Review → Submit application, then discarded; nothing was submitted. ReadStepAsync run against the live page returned the right labels, kinds, required flags and options.
• New fixture EasyApplySduiHtml copies the live markup, with 3 tests: hands back new questions and saves the draft; dry run reaches Submit and discards; real submit with Follow unticked and the phone filled.
• dotnet test: 1160 passed, 0 failed, 2 skipped. pytest passes.

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• New Features
  • Added support for LinkedIn Easy Apply’s native dialog flow, including multi-step forms, required-field checks, and saving or discarding drafts.
  • Improved answers for phone fields and radio options, and added handling for follow settings and submission confirmation.

Walkthrough

The LinkedIn Easy Apply driver now supports the SDUI native dialog, including field discovery, answer mapping, navigation, and dialog actions. Integration tests cover draft saving, dry runs, and submission. The project version is updated to 1.66.2.

Changes

LinkedIn SDUI Easy Apply

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dialog discovery and field parsing api/ApplyTrack.Api/Agent/Browser/LinkedInEasyApply.cs	The driver recognizes the SDUI dialog and its navigation controls. It reads fields without form-group wrappers and detects required, filled, and invalid states.
Field answers and dialog actions api/ApplyTrack.Api/Agent/Browser/LinkedInEasyApply.cs	The driver maps phone answers, matches radio options using nearby text, and reads submission confirmation and Save or Discard controls in native dialogs.
Integration tests and release records api/ApplyTrack.Api.Tests/BrowserSubmitterTests.cs, api/ApplyTrack.Api/ApplyTrack.Api.csproj, pyproject.toml, src/applytrack/__init__.py, BACKLOG.md	New fixture-based tests cover discovered questions, draft saving, dry-run discard, phone answers, and an unticked Follow option during submission. Version values are updated to 1.66.2, and the backlog records the SDUI support.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 88b2f

The new LinkedIn SDUI flow works on the checked-in fixture. However, some radio layouts may fail to fill when an option is in a sibling container or has explanatory text on a second line. The real-submission test also does not prove that an application request was accepted. These are bounded follow-ups rather than likely broad failures.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 88b2f

This restores an existing LinkedIn application workflow rather than adding a new permission or service boundary. Normal draft, dry-run, submission, and company-follow controls are covered, but interrupted runs and authenticated-account mismatches remain unproven.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The restored capability exercises the existing session’s LinkedIn account authority and exposes application answers, including the standard phone number, to the selected application workflow. The inspected change adds no account-selection mechanism or production caller; upstream account-to-tenant binding was not fully established by this review.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing session creates a separate browser context, loads kept cookies selected for the target host, and restricts top-level navigation to allowed hosts or hosts with supplied board accounts. The provider policy requires the LinkedIn-specific opt-in. These controls are outside the changed DOM parser.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Submission still requires either recognized confirmation text or a successful application response; an unconfirmed click returns an explicitly ambiguous outcome. Save/discard cleanup still swallows browser errors and uses a fixed settling delay, so durable cleanup is not guaranteed on interruption. That limitation predates this PR; the new fixtures assert normal save, discard, and submission outcomes only.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 26.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 3 files. (3 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: support for LinkedIn’s SDUI Easy Apply dialog. It is concise and specific.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the SDUI changes, test coverage, and reported verification. It is directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #403 requires SDUI Easy Apply support while retaining old selectors. The driver adds native-dialog, text- and aria-label-based control, field, validation-error, Follow, and Save/Discard handling…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The fixture and tests support issue #403. The BACKLOG.md entry records the fix, and the project version updates identify release 1.66.2, which contains the issue work. The change summary shows no unre…

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Review comments at @api/ApplyTrack.Api.Tests/BrowserSubmitterTests.cs:
- Around line 1983-1984: Update the submitIt flow and its fixture so the submit
endpoint returns an accepted response and the fixture records the request; only
emit submitted: true and show “Application sent” after that response is
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Review comments at @api/ApplyTrack.Api/Agent/Browser/LinkedInEasyApply.cs:
- Line 435: Update the radio-option text comparison in Choose to use the same
first-line normalization as ReadStepAsync, rather than comparing the container’s
full text, so options with explanatory second lines match consistently.
- Line 567: Update the radio-group lookup in FillAsync to use the same-name
radio scope as the SDUI fallback when no fieldset or form-element wrapper
exists. Include the nearest LazyColumn before falling back to the first radio’s
parent, and restrict the options to radios matching the first radio’s name.

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api/ApplyTrack.Api/Agent/Browser/LinkedInEasyApply.cs (1)

551-551: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The mixed-shape omission is not established.

ReadStepAsync does skip the SDUI scan when it finds a legacy group. However, the inspected fixtures exercise legacy and SDUI markup separately. They do not establish that a supported LinkedIn step contains both shapes, so the claimed failure depends on an unsupported external markup condition.