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## Probes

```
GET https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/merged-data.json
GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mozilla/standards-positions/gh-pages/merged-data.json
GET https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/standards-positions/contents/merged-data.json
```

## Observed

`mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/merged-data.json` returns HTTP 200,
`content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8`, 491,331 bytes, `cache-control:
max-age=600`, `last-modified: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:04:09 GMT`. The same bytes are also
reachable straight from the `gh-pages` branch via `raw.githubusercontent.com` (served as
`text/plain`, same size) — it is a GitHub Pages static site, not an app with a backend.
The GitHub Contents API has no file at that path on the default branch (404) because the
data file lives on the `gh-pages` branch specifically.

The JSON is a single object, not an array: a dict of **920** entries keyed by numeric-looking
strings ("19", "20", ... "1461") that are **not contiguous** — the ID range spans 19 to
1461 but only 920 of those 1,443 possible integers are used (523 gaps), so IDs cannot be
iterated by counting. Each entry has a `position` field whose value is one of
`"positive"` (396), `"negative"` (57), `"defer"` (34), `"neutral"` (31), or **JSON
`null`** (**402** entries — the largest single bucket, 43.7% of all entries). A `null`
position is not a missing/incomplete record to be filtered out: the entry still carries
a full `title`, `url`, `description`, and `bug` link — it means Mozilla is tracking the
spec but has not yet taken a formal position, a legitimate state, not an absence.

## Conclusion

There is no REST API, no pagination, and no per-entry endpoint — the entire 920-entry
dataset is one static file an agent must download and index itself, and almost half of
its records are "tracked, no verdict yet" rather than a thumbs up/down, which a naive
`position != null` filter would silently and incorrectly treat as "no data".

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:02:18Z-10:02:25Z, three anonymous curl GETs.

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