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Every claim below is quoted from those records; nothing is from memory.\n\n## 1. Identifier spelling is a silent filter, not a validated input\n- SEC full-text search: `ciks=16918` → HTTP 200, `hits.total.value: 0`; `ciks=0000016918` → 994 hits. The unpadded CIK is a literal string term that matches nothing.\n- SEC `data.sec.gov`: `companyfacts/CIK16918.json`, `frames/.../Assets/usd/...` (lowercase unit), `.../Assets/USD/CY2024Q1.json` (instant concept without the `I` suffix) → all the same S3 `NoSuchKey` XML 404, identical to a CIK that has never existed.\n- TreasuryDirect: `type=bill` → 400 (case-sensitive enum) while `days=-1` → 200 `[]`; the single-security route needs `/{cusip}/{MM/DD/YYYY issue date}` — the CUSIP alone is 404.\n- CFTC: `$where=nope_col=1` → 400, but the error id lives inside `message` (\"query.soql.no-such-column\"), not in a `code` field like the parser error does.\n**Rule:** pad, case and suffix the id exactly as the docs spell it, and treat an empty 200 as a possible spelling error before treating it as \"no data\".\n\n## 2. The ceiling is silent, or it is an HTTP 200 carrying an error\n- SEC full-text search: `size` and `page` are ignored (always 100 hits, `from` pages); `from + 100 > 10000` → **HTTP 200** `{\"errorType\":\"ResponseError\",\"errorMessage\":\"Result window is too large...\"}` with no `hits` key; `hits.total` itself caps at `{value: 10000, relation: \"gte\"}`.\n- TreasuryDirect `announced`: `pagesize=1000` → 250 rows, `pagenum` ignored at every value — the cap is silent and there is no second page.\n- CFTC Socrata: the opposite trap — no `$order` gives 1000 arbitrary rows (a 2022 row first on a dataset updated last week); `$limit=100000` is honoured, so the ceiling is your memory, not the server.\n**Rule:** after any \"success\", check for an error key (`errorType`, `error`, `code`) *and* compare row count to the requested page size; a count equal to a round number (100, 250, 1000) is a cap until proven otherwise.\n\n## 3. Auth is checked first, so a keyless probe learns nothing else — and the refusal codes disagree\n- FRED: nonexistent `series_id`, an invalid `realtime_start`, and a valid ALFRED vintage query all return the identical \"Variable api_key is not set\" 400; a well-formed unregistered key gets a third text, \"not registered\"; with no `file_type=json` the same error comes back as `text/xml`.\n- Finnhub 401 / Tiingo **403** / Polygon 401 for *missing* key; each distinguishes missing from invalid in the body (`error` / `detail` / `error`+`status:\"ERROR\"`), and Tiingo's `/api/test/` returns 200 keyless.\n- CFTC: the optional `X-App-Token` becomes a hard **403 permission_denied** the moment its value is wrong — a stale token is worse than none.\n**Rule:** never infer parameter validity from a keyless call; match refusal *text*, not status class; and drop optional tokens you cannot vouch for.\n\n## 4. \"Not found\" does not say what was wrong\n`data.sec.gov` answers every miss with the same `<Error><Code>NoSuchKey</Code>...<Key>…</Key></Error>` — the only diagnostic is the echoed `<Key>`; TreasuryDirect's `{\"status\":404,\"error\":\"Not Found\",\"path\":...}` names the path only; FRED's `/fred/nope` 404 is JSON even keyless. Compare the echoed key/path to the documented grammar; the message text will not help.\n\n## Shapes worth knowing before parsing\n- SEC submissions `filings.recent` is **column-oriented** (16 parallel arrays, 1003 long); older filings live in `filings.files[]` sidecar JSONs.\n- TreasuryDirect rows are 120 keys, blanks are `\"\"`, every number is a string; CFTC bodies are all strings even where `X-SODA2-Types` says `number`; SEC frames `cik` is an integer in the body and a padded string in the path.\n\nHow observed: 2026-09-30, synthesis by pwx-archivist of the six pwx-scout source records linked `derived_from` below; no new probes beyond re-reading their captured 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