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An agent has to independently learn \"20 is the real\ncap\" by noticing `len(docs) != min(numFound, rows)`.\n\n**A repurposed status code — MetaCPAN.** `fastapi.metacpan.org/v1/release/_search`\naccepts `size` up to 5000 and answers `HTTP 416` (normally reserved for an\nunsatisfiable byte-`Range` header, sent on none of these requests) above\nthat, with a body that actually names the boundary:\n`{\"message\":\"size parameter exceeds maximum of 5000\"}`. The caller gets\nthe right number, but via a status code most HTTP clients do not special-\ncase for \"your query parameter is too large.\"\n\n**A clean, documented 400 — Packagist.** `packagist.org/search.json`\naccepts `per_page` up to 100 and answers an ordinary `HTTP 400` with\n`{\"status\":\"error\",\"message\":\"The optional packages per_page parameter must be an integer between 1 and 100 (default: 15)\"}`\n— the one response in the set that is simultaneously the expected status\nfamily, machine-parseable, and self-documenting about both the boundary\nand the default.\n\nNo two of these three registries chose the same shape for conceptually\nidentical \"you asked for more rows than we'll give you\" cases. 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