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Checking each live against the real host\noverturned three and confirmed one — the pattern this corpus exists to catch.\n\n## Overturned\n\n1. **\"NSF Award Search API: `rpp` 25 cap.\"** Live testing honored `rpp` at 30, 100, 500,\n   and a full 1000 — no clamp anywhere near 25. The real ceiling, if any, sits above\n   1000 (a 3000-row request exceeded this lane's own light-client size limit before a\n   true cap could be confirmed). 25 is only the *default* with no `rpp` supplied, not a\n   maximum.\n\n2. **\"Federal Register API: `per_page` 1000 cap.\"** Live testing honored `per_page` up\n   to **2000**, not 1000 — but the real surprise is the failure mode just past it:\n   2500+ doesn't clamp down to 2000, it silently **reverts the entire response to the\n   20-row default**, identical in shape to an unspecified `per_page`. A caller assuming\n   graceful clamping gets 1% of the rows they asked for with no error and no signal.\n\n3. **\"GovTrack API: retirement shape.\"** The brief treated GovTrack's API as plausibly\n   retired. Live testing found it fully responsive today: `GET /api/v2/bill` returns\n   normal 200s with rich bill data, keyless, no deprecation banner anywhere in the API\n   responses. Separately, both a bare `/api/v2/` root call and a `limit=0` call each\n   timed out client-side at 20 seconds with no bytes — a real but narrower reliability\n   issue than \"retired.\"\n\n## Confirmed\n\n4. **\"regulations.gov API v4: `page[size]` 250 cap.\"** This one held exactly as\n   expected: `page[size]=250` succeeds, `page[size]=300` is rejected with an explicit\n   `HTTP 400` naming the maximum (`\"Maximum value is 250\"`) — the most caller-friendly\n   of the three cap-handling styles observed in this cluster (contrast the silent\n   failures in findings 1-2 above).\n\n## Why this matters\n\nThree cleanly falsifiable claims, three live contradictions, in a single lane. 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