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

.env.production.example

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Production deployments intentionally have no working secret defaults.
 # Copy this file to .env.production, replace every CHANGE-ME value, keep the
 # result out of version control, and pin a released OSApplyTrack version.
-OSAPPLYTRACK_VERSION=1.66.4
+OSAPPLYTRACK_VERSION=1.66.5
 POSTGRES_USER=applytrack
 POSTGRES_PASSWORD=CHANGE-ME-use-a-long-random-password
 POSTGRES_DB=applytrack

BACKLOG.md

@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ review items and unsupported forms still need human attention.
 - [ ] [#408 — Agent: LinkedIn SDUI Easy Apply — the contact step's City typeahead is still left unmapped (SMX)](https://github.com/CryptoJones/OSApplyTrack/issues/408) (found re-running the Ready lane after #406: `CityLabel()` matches and the résumé location is typed, but the typeahead is never committed on the SDUI dialog; the run stops at the contact step with `City` the only unmapped field)
 - [ ] [#410 — Agent: a packet's whole answer draft rides one LLM completion under the API's 120 s timeout — Orbis's 29-question form timed out twice and every answer was voided](https://github.com/CryptoJones/OSApplyTrack/issues/410) (not the network or the endpoint — a 36 KB request from the agent's own netns answers in 1.5 s; the real 22-question prompt just takes poolside longer than two minutes. Mitigated on pluto with `Llm__TimeoutSeconds=600` on the agent; the fix is a worker-side ceiling, chunked drafting, or both)
 - [ ] [#409 — Agent: LinkedIn SDUI Easy Apply — Trility's dialog never reaches Submit within 12 steps](https://github.com/CryptoJones/OSApplyTrack/issues/409) (`mapped: 0, unmapped: []` — the driver presses Next twelve times on a step it cannot leave and reports nothing about it; needs the screenshot and the live dialog)
+- [x] [#412 — Agent: LinkedIn SDUI years-of-experience text boxes refuse prose answers ("5+ years")](https://github.com/CryptoJones/OSApplyTrack/issues/412) (fixed in 1.66.5: the SDUI dialog draws "How many years …?" as a plain 20-character text box, so the #332 whole-number coercion keyed on `type=number` never fired and the drafter's "10+ years — …" was refused after Next. A label that asks "How many years" now gets the whole number its answer states, and "Less than 1 year" reads 0, not 1. Found on the 2026-10-05 Ready sweep: seven LinkedIn rows rebuilt on Claude answered every question and still dry-ran 0 mapped.)
 - [x] [#406 — Agent: Ready rows stuck on failures the worker should have recovered from — DNS blip stamped non-transient, browser crash unflagged, LLM 429 hammered every tick](https://github.com/CryptoJones/OSApplyTrack/issues/406) (fixed in 1.66.4: "the posting's host could not be resolved" is a `TransientRunException`, retried once after two seconds and recorded as transient, so the reconciler retries it; a run the browser died under ("Target page, context or browser has been closed") is flagged `transient` by the submitter and read by those words from before; and a pass stops judging at the first `LlmUnavailableException` and holds the tenant off for 15 minutes instead of asking the next eleven leads every five minutes. The eight rows the fix could not reach — four stored `transient: false`, launchdarkly's crash, and three LinkedIn runs from before #403 — were queued again by hand.)
 - [x] [#403 — Agent: LinkedIn Easy Apply times out on the new SDUI dialog (no .jobs-easy-apply-modal)](https://github.com/CryptoJones/OSApplyTrack/issues/403) (fixed in 1.66.2: the driver now also recognizes LinkedIn's SDUI `<dialog>`. It finds Next / Review / Submit application and Dismiss by their text or label, reads fields from `label[for]` / `aria-label` and radio options from the text beside each one, catches errors that appear only after a refused Next, unticks Follow by its aria-label, and answers the blank mobile-number box from the packet's standard phone. Checked against the live dialog on 2026-10-03.)
 

api/ApplyTrack.Api.Tests/GreenhouseEducationTests.cs

@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ public void Only_a_stated_finish_year_is_an_end_year(string dates, string? year)
     [InlineData("3-5", "3")]
     [InlineData("07", "7")]
     [InlineData("none", null)]
+    [InlineData("Less than 1 year", "0")]
+    [InlineData("less than 3 years", "2")]
+    [InlineData("under 2", "1")]
+    [InlineData("0 — I've worked with the OpenAI API directly, not Azure OpenAI.", "0")]
+    [InlineData("10+ years — .NET application development from 2012 to 2024", "10")]
     public void A_linkedin_number_box_gets_the_whole_number_an_answer_states(string answer, string? number) =>
         Assert.Equal(number, ApplyTrack.Api.Agent.AnswerDrafter.WholeNumber(answer));
 
@@ -88,4 +93,13 @@ public void A_degree_in_progress_goes_before_a_completed_certificate()
     [Fact]
     public void A_number_too_long_for_an_int_is_still_its_digits() =>
         Assert.Equal("123456789012345678901234567890", ApplyTrack.Api.Agent.AnswerDrafter.WholeNumber("123456789012345678901234567890+"));
+
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData("How many years of work experience do you have with C#?", true)]
+    [InlineData("How many years of work experience do you have with .NET Framework?*", true)]
+    [InlineData("  how many total years of experience do you have?", true)]
+    [InlineData("Are you comfortable working in a remote setting?", false)]
+    [InlineData("Do you have 6+ years of hands-on experience?", false)]
+    public void A_years_question_wants_a_whole_number_whatever_its_box(string label, bool wants) =>
+        Assert.Equal(wants, ApplyTrack.Api.Agent.AnswerDrafter.WantsWholeNumber(label));
 }

api/ApplyTrack.Api/Agent/AnswerDrafter.cs

@@ -533,15 +533,25 @@ public static bool IsOpaqueLabel(PacketQuestion q)
     /// question against (the bank's key is the question, lower-cased). Name fields are left out:
     /// they are answered from the résumé, not asked. Public for tests.</summary>
     /// <summary>The whole number an answer states — "5+" → 5, "10+ years" → 10, "3-5" → 3 (the
-    /// least it claims) — or null when it states none. For a form's number box (#332).</summary>
+    /// least it claims) — or null when it states none. For a form's number box (#332).
+    /// "Less than 1 year" is 0, not 1: below N is N-1 (#412).</summary>
     public static string? WholeNumber(string answer)
     {
+        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);
         var m = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(answer, @"\d+");
         if (!m.Success) return null;
         var digits = m.Value.TrimStart('0');
         return digits.Length == 0 ? "0" : digits;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>True when a question's label asks for a count of years ("How many years of work
+    /// experience do you have with C#?"), whatever control the form draws it with (#412).</summary>
+    public static bool WantsWholeNumber(string label) =>
+        Regex.IsMatch(label, @"^\s*how many (?:total )?years\b", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
+
     public static string PastAnswers(IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string>? pinned)
     {
         if (pinned is null || pinned.Count == 0) return "(none yet)";

api/ApplyTrack.Api/Agent/Browser/LinkedInEasyApply.cs

@@ -457,7 +457,10 @@ private static async Task<bool> FillAsync(IPage page, Field f, string answer)
                     var box = page.Locator($"{Modal} [id=\"{Css(f.ControlId)}\"]").First;
                     // A number box takes a whole number: Insight Global's "How many years … with SQL,
                     // T-SQL, or PL/SQL?" refused the banked "5+" (#332). "5+" is 5, "10+ years" 10.
+                    // The SDUI dialog draws that question as a plain 20-character text box, so the
+                    // label is the only sign it wants a number (#412).
                     if (f.ControlId.Contains("numeric", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                        || AnswerDrafter.WantsWholeNumber(f.Label)
                         || await box.GetAttributeAsync("type") == "number")
                         answer = AnswerDrafter.WholeNumber(answer) ?? answer;
                     await box.FillAsync(answer, new() { Timeout = 5_000 });

api/ApplyTrack.Api/ApplyTrack.Api.csproj

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
     <RootNamespace>ApplyTrack.Api</RootNamespace>
-    <Version>1.66.4</Version>
+    <Version>1.66.5</Version>
     <Authors>Aaron K. Clark</Authors>
     <Copyright>Copyright 2026 Aaron K. Clark</Copyright>
     <PackageLicenseExpression>Apache-2.0</PackageLicenseExpression>

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "applytrack-poller"
-version = "1.66.4"
+version = "1.66.5"
 description = "Discovery poller for OSApplyTrack — fetches and scores remote job leads into shared Postgres."
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 license = { text = "Apache-2.0" }

src/applytrack/__init__.py

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 # Copyright 2026 Aaron K. Clark
 """applytrack — a local, markdown-backed job-application tracker."""
 
-__version__ = "1.66.4"
+__version__ = "1.66.5"