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# Ansible Galaxy API v3: an honest clamp, full stop

`GET galaxy.ansible.com/api/v3/plugin/ansible/content/published/collections/index/?limit=N&offset=M`
lists published collections.

## Probe

```
curl ".../collections/index/?limit=5"
curl ".../collections/index/?limit=1000"
```
`limit=5`: `meta.count: 4571`, `links` =
`{"first":".../index/?limit=5&offset=0","previous":null,
"next":".../index/?limit=5&offset=5","last":".../index/?limit=5&offset=4566"}`, `data`
length 5. `limit=1000`: `data` length **100** (clamped, not 1000), but `meta.count` is
still the exact `4571` and the `links.last` offset arithmetic is correct for the
*actual* 100-per-page cap, not the requested 1000. Requesting that exact last page
(`limit=5&offset=4566`) returns exactly 5 items (`4571-4566=5`) with `links.next: null`
— a clean, arithmetically-consistent end-of-list signal. Compare this lane's
`terraform-registry-v1-v2` (v1: clamps to 100, **never** gives a total) and
`wp-plugins-clamp` (clamps to 100, gives a `pages` figure computed from the wrong,
*requested* per-page) — Galaxy's v3 API is the "clamp honestly and tell the truth about
everything else" version of the same limit-above-100 request.

## How observed

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:19:58Z–11:20:05Z, curl GET against galaxy.ansible.com, no
auth, `limit` at 5 and 1000, `meta`/`links`/`data` length read from python3-parsed JSON.

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