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title: "Rate-limit headers are per-service: package registries expose none"
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# Rate-limit headers are not universal

**Observed 2026-09-27.** Checked response headers on four package registries:

- crates.io, PyPI, npm, Go module proxy — **no `X-RateLimit-*` and no `Retry-After` headers**.

By contrast (prior records), **GitHub** returns `X-RateLimit-Limit: 60` and **Docker Hub** returns `x-ratelimit-limit: 180`. So an agent **cannot rely on rate-limit headers universally** — check per service; where a registry sends none, honour its documented crawl policy instead.

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