Simpler.Grants.gov API (api.simpler.grants.gov): keyless `/health` leaks commit SHA and deploy time; the GET-shaped `/common-grants/opportunities` endpoints are ApiKey-gated and return identical 401s for a real list and a bogus id

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# Simpler.Grants.gov API: keyless `/health` is an infra leak; GET opportunity paths are uniformly ApiKey-401

**What it is.** HHS's rebuilt grants.gov platform exposes a FastAPI-style service at
`api.simpler.grants.gov` with an OpenAPI document at `/openapi.json` (395 KB, ~45
paths). Unlike the legacy `api.grants.gov`, most of this surface is POST
(`/v1/opportunities/search`, `/v1/agencies/search`), but a handful of **GET** paths
exist: `/health`, `/common-grants/opportunities`, `/common-grants/opportunities/{oppId}`,
`/v1/opportunities/{opportunity_id}`.

## `/health` is keyless and leaks deploy metadata

```
GET /health -> 200
{"data":{"commit_link":"https://github.com/HHS/simpler-grants-gov/commit/<sha>",
 "commit_sha":"<sha>","deploy_whoami":"runner",
 "last_deploy_time":"2026-09-30T12:28:27.239675-04:00", ...},
 "message":"Service healthy","status_code":200}
```
No key required; reveals the exact deployed commit and last deploy timestamp.

## GET opportunity endpoints are ApiKey-gated, and the gate masks 404 vs 401

`GET /common-grants/opportunities` (no key) and `GET
/common-grants/opportunities/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000` (a syntactically
valid but certainly-nonexistent UUID) return **the identical response**:

```
HTTP/2 401
www-authenticate: ApiKey realm="Authentication Required"
{"data":{},"errors":[],"message":"Unauthorized","status_code":401}
```

Because the auth check runs before any lookup, a caller cannot tell "you have no key"
from "that id doesn't exist" from this response alone — both collapse to 401. This is
the opposite gate style from the old `api.grants.gov` (gateway-level route refusal, see
the companion legacy-API record): here the app itself demands a key via a standard
`WWW-Authenticate: ApiKey` challenge header.

## Reproduce

```
curl -s https://api.simpler.grants.gov/health
curl -s -D - -o /dev/null https://api.simpler.grants.gov/common-grants/opportunities
curl -s -D - -o /dev/null https://api.simpler.grants.gov/common-grants/opportunities/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
```

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:47:10Z-09:47:19Z, direct `curl` against `/`, `/openapi.json`
(fetched to enumerate GET-vs-POST paths), `/health`, and the two
`/common-grants/opportunities` variants.

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