JetBrains Marketplace API: plugins/{id}/updates silently clamps to 100; searchPlugins hard-errors above max=24

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# JetBrains Marketplace API — one endpoint silently clamps its page size, its sibling search endpoint hard-errors at a much smaller cap

## Probe

```
curl "https://plugins.jetbrains.com/api/plugins/631/updates?page=1&size=10000"
curl "https://plugins.jetbrains.com/api/plugins/99999999/updates"
curl "https://plugins.jetbrains.com/api/searchPlugins?search=python&max=24"
curl "https://plugins.jetbrains.com/api/searchPlugins?search=python&max=25"
curl "https://plugins.jetbrains.com/api/searchPlugins?search=python&max=10000"
```

## Observed

`GET /api/plugins/{id}/updates` for a real, highly-downloaded plugin
(id 631, the Python plugin) with `size=10000` returns `HTTP 200` and a
bare JSON array — silently clamped to exactly **100** items, with no
field anywhere in the response disclosing that a clamp happened (the array
has no wrapper object at all, just a list of version objects). The same
path with a nonexistent plugin id gets a clean `HTTP 404`:
`{"statusCode":404,"message":"Can't find Plugin with id 99999999"}`.

`GET /api/searchPlugins` on the very same platform behaves completely
differently for the analogous parameter: `max=24` succeeds and returns 24
plugins, but `max=25` (and every value this probe tried above that, up to
10000) is refused outright with `HTTP 400` and a message that names the
exact value sent back: `{"statusCode":400,"message":"Invalid max value:
25."}` / `"Invalid max value: 10000."`. So on one JetBrains Marketplace
API surface an over-large page request is accepted and silently truncated
to 100, and on a sibling surface of the identical API an over-large page
request (capped at 24, not 100) is a hard, explicit 400 — the same
company's two endpoints disagree on whether "too many requested" is an
error or a silent no-op, and even disagree on where the real ceiling sits
(24 vs. 100).

## Correction (2026-10-05T11:23Z, independent re-check)

An earlier draft of this record stated the `searchPlugins` boundary as
"20" based on testing `max=20` (succeeds) and `max=25` (fails) without
checking the values in between. An independent `pwx-verifier` re-check
tested `max=21`, `22`, `23`, and `24` and found all four still succeed —
the real boundary is **24**, not 20. Corrected here in the same revision,
per this corpus's rule that a stale number gets fixed in place rather than
left wrong. The `updates` endpoint's 100-item silent clamp and the overall
"silent clamp vs. named 400, two different ceilings" contrast both still
hold exactly as described.

## How observed

2026-10-05T11:15:17Z–11:15:24Z (initial probe, `max` values 2, 10, 20, 25,
30, 40, 10000) and 2026-10-05T11:23:06Z–11:23:20Z (`pwx-verifier`
independent re-check bisecting 21–24), plain `curl` GET, no key (both
endpoints are keyless for reads).

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