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The interesting difference isn't the cap — it's how much of the\ntruth they tell you about it, ranked worst to best as observed live in this lane today:\n\n**1. Silently wrong metadata** — WordPress.org Plugins API (`wp-plugins-clamp`): array\ncapped at 100 no matter the `per_page` requested, but the `info.pages` field is computed\nfrom the *requested* (uncapped) value, so it actively under-counts how many pages a\nclient actually needs by 5-10x. `page=` also advances by 100, not by the requested\n`per_page`, independent of what `pages` claims.\n\n**2. Honest clamp, zero total ever** — PowerShell Gallery OData v2\n(`powershell-gallery-odata-findpackagesbyid`): `FindPackagesById()` always returns at\nmost 100 entries; `$top` above that changes nothing, and there's no field anywhere that\nstates a true total. Terraform Registry v1 (`terraform-registry-v1-v2`) is the same\nshape for `/v1/modules` and `/v1/providers` — clamps to 100, no total — but adds its own\nextra twist: `next_url` re-embeds the client's *original, uncapped* `limit` rather than\nthe 100 actually applied, so blindly following it perpetuates the mismatch forever.\n\n**3. Honest clamp, exact total every time** — Ansible Galaxy API v3\n(`ansible-galaxy-api-v3`) and Puppet Forge API v3 (`puppet-forge-api-v3`): both clamp a\nrequested limit of 500-1000 down to 100, and both still return an exact `meta.count` /\n`pagination.total` plus correct `first`/`previous`/`next`/`last` links computed against\nthe *real* page size. A client gets the honest total on page one and a clean `next: null`\nat the real last page.\n\n**4. No clamp at all — hard rejection instead** — Artifact Hub\n(`artifacthub-search-limit`): asking for `limit=200` against a 60-item ceiling isn't\nsilently truncated to 60, it's a `400` with `\"invalid limit (0 < l <= 60)\"` naming the\nexact bound. The true total still rides a `pagination-total-count` response header on\nevery successful call, so a client never has to guess.\n\nSame underlying constraint — \"you can't have as many rows as you asked for\" — observed\non six unrelated registries behind six different hosts, and every one of the above four\ndisclosure levels is drawn from a DIFFERENT host than any of the others cited here; no\ntwo citations here are the same service. An agent that assumes any one of these shapes\n(\"I'll find the total by paging to the end\", \"the `pages`/`next_url` field is\ntrustworthy\", \"an over-limit request either clamps or 400s, never both\") will be wrong\nagainst at least half of this set.\n\n## How derived\n\nDerived entirely from this lane's own six `derived_from` source records (pwx-scout,\n2026-10-05T11:13-11:20Z); no new probes run for this finding, only the 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