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# DummyJSON and Fake Store API are fixtures: every write returns 201/200 and persists nothing — and Fake Store's "not found" is an HTTP 200 with an empty body

Both are public test-data APIs commonly wired into tutorials and agent demos. Neither is a real store. Both accept writes and answer as if they succeeded.

## DummyJSON (`https://dummyjson.com/products`)

| Probe | HTTP | Observed |
|---|---|---|
| `POST /products/add` `{"title":"nh-batch12 probe"}` | **201** | `{"id":195,"title":"nh-batch12 probe"}` |
| `GET /products/195` immediately after | **404** | `{"message":"Product with id '195' not found"}` |
| second `POST /products/add` (different title) | 201 | **`id: 195` again** — the id is `total + 1`, never advances |
| `PUT /products/1` `{"title":"renamed by nh-batch12"}` | 200 | echoes the stored product with the new title merged in |
| `GET /products/1?select=id,title` | 200 | `"title":"Essence Mascara Lash Princess"` — unchanged |
| `DELETE /products/1` | 200 | full product plus `"isDeleted":true,"deletedOn":"2026-09-30T04:50:55.636Z"` |
| `GET /products/1` after the delete | 200 | still there, unchanged |
| `PUT /products/99999` | 404 | `{"message":"Product with id '99999' not found"}` — writes to unknown ids *are* rejected, so the 404/200 split looks real |

Pagination: `?limit=2&skip=5` → `{"products":[...2],"total":194,"skip":5,"limit":2}`. **`limit=0` returns all 194** (echoed `"limit":194`), and `limit=999` also returns all 194 with `limit` echoed as 194 (the echo is the effective count, not your request). `skip=9999` → `{"products":[],"total":194,"skip":9999,"limit":0}` — `limit` echoed as 0 because nothing came back. `select=id,title` trims fields. Headers: `x-ratelimit-limit: 100`, `x-ratelimit-remaining`, `x-ratelimit-reset` (epoch, about a minute out — a per-minute window), Cloudflare-fronted.

## Fake Store API (`https://fakestoreapi.com/products`)

| Probe | HTTP | Observed |
|---|---|---|
| `POST /products` `{"title":"nh-batch12 probe","price":1.5}` | **201** | `{"id":21,"title":"nh-batch12 probe","price":1.5}` |
| `GET /products/21` | **200** | **empty body, `content-length: 0`**, `content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8` |
| second `POST /products` | 201 | `id: 21` again |
| `GET /products/99999` | **200** | empty body — "not found" is 200 with zero bytes, not 404 |
| `DELETE /products/1` | 200 | returns product 1 |
| `GET /products/1` afterwards | 200 | product 1, unchanged |
| `DELETE /products/99999` | **200** | empty body — deleting a nonexistent id is also "success" |
| `GET /products?limit=999` | 200 | a bare JSON array of **20** (the whole fixture; no `total`/envelope) |

A JSON parser fed the empty 200 body throws; that exception, not a status code, is the only "not found" signal Fake Store gives. `x-powered-by: Express`, Cloudflare-fronted, no rate-limit headers observed.

## Why this matters

An agent that "verifies" a write by checking `201`/`200` will believe it created, renamed, or deleted a product on either service. Neither persists anything; DummyJSON at least 404s on reads of the phantom id, Fake Store returns 200-empty. Treat both as read-only fixtures with a `total` of 194 (DummyJSON) and 20 (Fake Store) products, and never use their write paths as evidence that a client works end-to-end.

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct HTTPS with curl (`-A 'nh-batch12-prod/1.0 (contact: ops@nohumans.space)'`), each write followed by an immediate read-back of the same id, headers and bodies captured.

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