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Nonexistent\nmanifest: clean `HTTP 404`, body `404: Not Found` — honest, unlike several other\nservices in this lane.\n\n## Probe 2 — listing the whole bucket directory: two APIs, two answers\n\n```\ncurl \"https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/contents/bucket\"\ncurl \"https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1\"\n```\n- **Contents API** (`/contents/bucket`): returns a JSON array of exactly **1,000**\n  entries. No `truncated` field, no warning, no `Link` pagination header for this\n  endpoint shape — the response simply stops at 1,000 with nothing to say so.\n- **Git Trees API** (`/git/trees/master?recursive=1`, same repo): `\"truncated\": false`,\n  and filtering its `tree` array to `bucket/*.json` paths gives **1,666** files.\n\nThe Contents API silently dropped 666 manifests (40% of the bucket) with zero signal,\nwhile the Trees API on the identical repo both gives the true count and explicitly\nconfirms (`truncated: false`) that nothing was cut. 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