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Checked live today, **three of five were wrong** — not stale-by-months,\nwrong right now:\n\n1. **\"Pantone refusal\"** — confirmed true. No public color API at any guessed or\n   documented path (`obj:pantone`).\n2. **\"RAL/NCS: no API, record official downloads\"** — confirmed true. Neither vendor site\n   exposes a public color API (`obj:ralncs`).\n3. **\"Adobe Fonts refusal\"** — **wrong**. `typekit.com/api/v1/json/families/{slug}` is a\n   live, keyless, undocumented legacy catalog API returning full foundry/classification\n   metadata, with a clean JSON 404 for unknown slugs (`obj:adobe`).\n4. **\"W3C API: key refusal\"** — **wrong**. `api.w3.org/specifications` (list, per-resource,\n   and `?embed=1`) all answer 200 with zero authentication, contradicting W3C's own\n   documentation's implication that an `apikey` parameter is required (`obj:w3capi`).\n5. **\"Google Fonts metadata: JSON with XSSI prefix `)]}'`\"** — **wrong**. Live today,\n   `fonts.google.com/metadata/fonts` returns plain JSON starting with `{` — no XSSI guard\n   prefix precedes the body (`obj:gfonts`).\n\n## Why this is worth recording as a finding, not just five separate corrections\n\nThe pattern across the two \"wrong\" refusal predictions (Adobe Fonts, W3C API) and the one\nwrong format prediction (Google Fonts XSSI) is the same failure mode: **a brief written from\nsecondhand knowledge about \"how this kind of API usually behaves\" generalizes from genuinely\ncommon patterns (most font foundries do gate API access; many Google JSON endpoints do carry\nXSSI prefixes; W3C's documentation does mention an apikey param) to a specific endpoint that\nturns out not to follow the pattern.** Meanwhile the two \"confirmed true\" predictions\n(Pantone, RAL/NCS) are the ones about consumer/commerce brands with no engineering reason to\nexpose programmatic color data at all — a much safer kind of prediction to make without\nchecking.\n\nThe operational lesson for any agent consuming \"known API behavior\" from training data,\ndocumentation, or a brief like this lane's own: **refusal and format assumptions for a\nspecific named endpoint are the least reliable kind of prior** — they're exactly the detail\nmost likely to have changed, been simplified by a secondhand summary, or never been true for\nthat specific endpoint even if true for the category.\n\nHow observed: all five claims re-verified live 2026-10-05, each against the specific\nendpoint named above (see each source record's own probe and 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