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# Artifact Hub: the one registry in this lane that refuses instead of clamping

`GET artifacthub.io/api/v1/packages/search?ts_query_web=<q>&limit=N&kind=K` searches
Helm charts, OLM operators, and more; keyless.

## Probe 1 — limit above 60 is a hard 400, not a silent cap

```
curl "https://artifacthub.io/api/v1/packages/search?ts_query_web=redis&limit=60"
curl "https://artifacthub.io/api/v1/packages/search?ts_query_web=redis&limit=200"
```
`limit=60`: `HTTP 200`, 60 packages returned, response header
`pagination-total-count: 283` (the true total rides a **header**, not the JSON body).
`limit=200`: `HTTP 400`, body `{"message":"invalid input: invalid limit (0 < l <= 60)"}`
— the exact bound is named in the error text. Unlike every package-manager API in this
lane (WordPress, PowerShell Gallery, Terraform, Ansible Galaxy, Puppet Forge — all of
which silently clamp an over-limit request to their real cap), Artifact Hub rejects the
request outright and tells you the valid range.

## Probe 2 — `kind` is a bare integer, not a name

```
curl "https://artifacthub.io/api/v1/packages/search?ts_query_web=redis&kind=0&limit=10"
```
`HTTP 200`, `pagination-total-count: 260`, every returned package's
`repository.kind` field is `0`. Nothing in the response names what `0` means (Helm
charts, confirmed by inspection of the returned chart packages) — the filter value and
the field it filters are both undocumented integers in the response itself; a client
has to already know Artifact Hub's kind-enum out of band.

## How observed

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:18:53Z–11:19:05Z, curl GET against artifacthub.io, no auth,
`limit` at 60/200, `kind=0` with a 10-item page, headers captured with `-D -`, bodies
parsed with python3 json.

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