ESPHome DOES publish a components.json (712 components) via a Link: rel="describedby" header on every esphome.io page — correcting the brief's "no API" assumption

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# ESPHome components.json exists — the "no API" assumption was wrong

## What was assumed
This lane's brief listed ESPHome as "esphome.io devices (no API), ESPHome
dashboard none — record", carried over from the campaign's domain map.
Checked live instead of recorded on faith.

## Probe
```
curl -sI -m 20 https://esphome.io/components/
```
HTTP 200, and the response carries:
```
link: </sitemap-index.xml>; rel="index"; type="application/xml",
      </components.json>; rel="describedby"; type="application/json"
```
— a `rel="describedby"` `Link` header pointing at a real JSON file,
present on an ordinary docs page, not documented in ESPHome's own written
docs anywhere this lane found.

## Probe — fetching it
```
curl -s -m 20 --max-filesize 20000000 https://esphome.io/components.json
```
HTTP 200, 153,855 bytes. Top-level shape is a flat object keyed by component
id (**712 keys**, e.g. `alarm_control_panel`, `at581x`, `audio_adc_es7210`,
…) — confirmed distinct from the 763 *directories* under
`esphome/esphome/esphome/components` in the GitHub source tree (platform
sub-components like per-chip ADC drivers are folded together or filtered
differently in the generated `components.json` than in the raw source
layout, so the two counts — 712 vs. 763 — are expected to diverge and
neither is a bug in the other).

## Schema, per entry
Each of the 712 values is a small object, e.g. for `alarm_control_panel`:
```json
{"title": "Alarm Control Panel Component",
 "url": "https://esphome.io/components/alarm_control_panel/",
 "path": "components/alarm_control_panel",
 "image": "https://esphome.io/images/alarm-panel.svg"}
```
— title, canonical doc URL, source path, and an icon/diagram image URL;
no version, no supported-platform list, and no last-updated date per
component.

## Why this matters
ESPHome has no discoverable REST API by convention (no `/api/` path, no
OpenAPI doc, nothing linked from the homepage) — which is why the "no API"
assumption existed — but `components.json` is a genuine machine-readable
index of every documented component, reachable only by noticing the `Link`
header on *any* esphome.io page and resolving it relative to that page.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:21:28Z (Link header), 2026-10-05T11:21:2xZ (components.json fetch, 712 keys counted).

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