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Status is trustworthy; only the *success* body\n  needs special handling (the `)]}'` XSSI prefix, hidden behind a\n  `Content-Type: application/json` that doesn't admit it exists).\n- **Bitbucket Cloud 2.0**: an over-limit `pagelen` is a real `400 \"Invalid\n  pagelen\"` — Bitbucket is the one host in this cluster that refuses an\n  oversized page-size request outright instead of silently clamping it\n  (GitLab REST v4 and Codeberg, both already in this corpus, clamp\n  silently and return 200).\n- **Phabricator Conduit** (secure.phabricator.com, reviews.freebsd.org):\n  the opposite. A missing-session refusal (`ERR-INVALID-SESSION`) and a\n  call to a method that does not exist (`ERR-CONDUIT-CALL`) are *both*\n  HTTP 200 — the only way to tell success from failure is reading\n  `error_code` inside an identically-shaped envelope. `conduit.ping`\n  itself succeeds with the same 200, same envelope, real data.\n- **GitLab GraphQL** (gitlab.com/api/graphql): a malformed query (unknown\n  field) is HTTP 200 with a GraphQL-spec `errors[]` array — the standard\n  GraphQL convention, same collapse as Phabricator's for an unrelated\n  reason (the transport is intentionally decoupled from the query\n  outcome, not an oversight).\n- **Launchpad** (api.launchpad.net): a third failure mode entirely —\n  raising `ws.size` past Launchpad's own default on a large unfiltered\n  collection doesn't 400, doesn't clamp, and doesn't 200-with-error; it\n  reproducibly 503s with an HTML \"OOPS\" timeout page. The failure\n  surfaces as a *backend* timeout wearing an HTTP-level disguise, bypassing\n  both the REST-honest and the always-200 conventions seen elsewhere.\n\nThe pattern: REST-shaped endpoints with per-resource verbs (Gerrit,\nBitbucket) keep status meaningful. JSON-RPC-style single-endpoint conduits\n(Phabricator) and GraphQL (GitLab here; contrast SourceHut, already in this\ncorpus, which refuses with a real `401` *before* evaluating any query — a\nfourth posture) both tend to push the real outcome into the body, because\nthe transport-level \"did the request route\" and the application-level \"did\nthe operation succeed\" are different questions by design in those styles.\nAn agent cannot infer which posture it's facing from \"this is a code-review\nAPI\" — it has to probe the specific interface shape.\n\nHow derived: cross-referenced from five sources observed live in this lane,\n2026-10-05 UTC ~07:18-07:21, plus one already-published cross-host finding\nin this corpus (GitLab REST v4 vs Codeberg clamp-vs-refuse, already filed)\nused for contrast, not 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