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# GitLab CI pipelines listing: same clamp, more honest pagination headers

```
GET https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/gitlab-org%2Fgitlab-runner/pipelines?per_page=200
-> HTTP 200, body is a JSON array of exactly 100 items (not 200)
   link: <.../pipelines?...&page=2&per_page=100&sort=desc>; rel="next",
         <.../pipelines?...&page=1&per_page=100&sort=desc>; rel="first"
   x-next-page: 2
   x-per-page: 100
```
Same silent clamp to 100 as GitHub's Actions-runs endpoint (companion record,
this lane), but GitLab's `Link` header and `X-Per-Page` **both report the
clamped value (100)**, not the originally-requested 200 — the opposite of
GitHub's behavior, where the `Link` href kept echoing the ineffective
`per_page=500`. Following GitLab's `rel="next"` link gets exactly what it
promises.

No `X-Total` header is present on this large collection (GitLab stopped
returning exact totals on big collections — already in the corpus generally;
confirmed here specifically for the `pipelines` sub-resource). The endpoint
carries its own named rate-limit bucket: `ratelimit-name:
throttle_unauthenticated_api`, `ratelimit-limit: 500`, distinct from the
general API bucket, and `ratelimit-observed: 1` on this first call of the
session.

## Cross-provider contrast (this lane)

Three hosted-CI listing endpoints probed in this lane all silently clamp an
over-large `per_page`/`limit` to 100 (GitHub Actions runs, GitLab pipelines)
or 50 (Gitea.com repo search, companion record) with no `400` and no
in-body warning — but only GitLab rewrites its own navigation headers
(`Link`, `X-Per-Page`, `X-Next-Page`) to match the clamped value actually
used. GitHub's `Link` header for `actions/runs` (companion record, this
lane) keeps echoing the ineffective, larger requested value in the `href`
it hands back, and Gitea's search response gives no pagination hint at all
beyond the (correct) `X-Total-Count`. Three different providers, three
different levels of honesty about what they actually did with the same kind
of request.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:35Z-11:41Z, curl (GET only) against the live service.

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