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fix(agent): LinkedIn years-of-experience text boxes get a whole number (#412); 1.66.5 - #413

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Closes #412

LinkedIn's SDUI Easy Apply dialog draws "How many years of work experience do you have with X?" as a plain 20-character text box. The #332 whole-number coercion only fired on type=number or a "numeric" control id, so the drafter's prose ("5+ years", "10+ years — .NET from 2012 …") went in verbatim and the dialog refused it after Next.

  • A label that asks "How many years" now takes AnswerDrafter.WholeNumber.
  • WholeNumber reads "Less than N" as N-1, so "Less than 1 year" is 0, not 1.
  • Tests cover both. Version 1.66.5.

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#412); 1.66.5

LinkedIn's SDUI Easy Apply dialog draws "How many years of work experience
do you have with X?" as a plain 20-character text box. The #332 coercion only
fired on type=number or a "numeric" control id, so the drafter's prose
("5+ years", "10+ years — .NET from 2012 …") went in verbatim and the dialog
refused it after Next. Seven rows rebuilt on Claude on 2026-10-05 answered
every question and still dry-ran 0 mapped.

A label that asks "How many years" now takes AnswerDrafter.WholeNumber, and
WholeNumber reads "Less than N" as N-1 so "Less than 1 year" is 0, not 1.
Version 1.66.5 (csproj, pyproject, __init__, uv.lock, .env.production.example).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • LinkedIn applications now interpret “How many years” answers as whole numbers. Answers such as “Less than 1 year” map to 0, while “under N” and “less than N” map to N−1.
  • Release
    • Updated the release version to 1.66.5.

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LinkedInEasyApply now normalizes answers for years-of-experience text fields. “Less than N” and “under N” answers map to N−1, with a minimum of zero. Tests cover conversion and question-label detection. Project metadata records version 1.66.5.

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LinkedIn years-of-experience answers

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detect and normalize whole-number answers
api/ApplyTrack.Api/Agent/AnswerDrafter.cs, api/ApplyTrack.Api/Agent/Browser/LinkedInEasyApply.cs, api/ApplyTrack.Api.Tests/GreenhouseEducationTests.cs
AnswerDrafter recognizes years-of-experience question labels and converts “less than” and “under” answers to one less than the stated number, clamped at zero. LinkedInEasyApply applies whole-number normalization to matching fields. Tests cover answer conversion and label matching.
Record the 1.66.5 release
.env.production.example, api/ApplyTrack.Api/ApplyTrack.Api.csproj, pyproject.toml, src/applytrack/__init__.py, BACKLOG.md
Project version metadata changes from 1.66.4 to 1.66.5. The backlog marks issue #412 complete and records the fix.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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A LinkedIn submission can fail when a years answer contains Unicode digits, though other queue work continues. Normalize these digits before parsing.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the LinkedIn years-of-experience fix and includes the version update.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the LinkedIn text-box issue, the whole-number behavior, the tests, and the version update.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #412 requires LinkedIn text fields labeled “How many years…” to receive a whole-number answer, “Less than N” answers to map to N−1, and tests for both behaviors. LinkedInEasyApply.FillAsync no…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation and tests support issue #412. The backlog entry records the fix, and the version updates consistently set the release version to 1.66.5. The reviewed summary shows no unrelated chan…
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var below = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(answer, @"^\s*(?:less|fewer) than\s+(\d{1,9})\b|^\s*(?:under|<)\s*(\d{1,9})\b",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
if (below.Success)
return Math.Max(0, int.Parse(below.Groups[1].Success ? below.Groups[1].Value : below.Groups[2].Value) - 1).ToString(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize Unicode digits before parsing.

When an answer contains Unicode digits such as Arabic-Indic ٣, the \d pattern matches them, but .NET numeric parsing accepts only ASCII digits. Therefore, WholeNumber("Less than ٣ years") throws FormatException instead of returning "2". (learn.microsoft.com)

FillAsync does not catch FormatException, and RunAsync only catches Playwright and timeout exceptions. Normalize the captured digits before parsing so this answer does not abort the LinkedIn run.

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Review comment at @api/ApplyTrack.Api/Agent/AnswerDrafter.cs at line 543:
Update WholeNumber to normalize captured Unicode digits to ASCII before parsing,
so values such as Arabic-Indic digits parse successfully while preserving the
existing decrement and zero-clamping behavior.

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LinkedIn SDUI years-of-experience text boxes refuse prose answers ("5+ years") — coerce to a whole number

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