Quality Gate & Recovery

Headless Chrome can silently return low-quality content — layout shells, login walls, or framework payloads — without the CLI returning a non-zero exit code. Read this after every headless run so you can catch and recover from those cases.

Checks the Agent Must Run

1. Confirm the markdown title matches the target page, not a generic site shell
2. Confirm the body contains the expected article/page content, not just navigation, footer, or a generic error
3. Watch for obvious failure signs:
   • Application error
   • This page could not be found
   • Login, signup, subscribe, or verification shells
   • Extremely short markdown for a page that should be long-form
   • Raw framework payloads or mostly boilerplate content
4. Do NOT accept a run as successful just because the CLI exited 0

Tip: run with --format json to get structured signals including status, login.state, and interaction. "status": "needs_interaction" means the page requires manual interaction.

Recovery Workflow

1. Start headless (default) unless there is already a clear reason to use interaction mode
2. Review markdown quality immediately after the run
3. If the content is low quality or indicates login/CAPTCHA:
   • --wait-for interaction for auto-detected gates (login, CAPTCHA, Cloudflare)
   • --wait-for force when the page needs manual browsing, scroll loading, or complex interaction
4. If --wait-for is used, tell the user exactly what to do:
   • Login required → sign in in the browser
   • CAPTCHA visible → solve it
   • Slow loading → wait until content is visible
   • --wait-for force → press Enter when ready
5. If JSON output shows "status": "needs_interaction", switch to --wait-for interaction automatically

Capture Modes

Interaction gate auto-detection: Cloudflare Turnstile / "just a moment" pages, Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, custom challenge / verification screens.