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# HACS default repositories list: flat slug array, no per-repo metadata

## What it is
HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) ships its allow-list of
community-vetted custom integrations as a plain JSON file per category in
the `hacs/default` GitHub repo, served raw.

## Probe
```
curl -s -m 20 --max-filesize 20000000   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hacs/default/master/integration
```
HTTP 200, 108,742 bytes. Body is a bare JSON array (no wrapper object) of
**3,262** strings, each an `"owner/repo"` GitHub slug:
```json
[
  "007hacky007/car_maintenance",
  "0jety0/emaux_spv150",
  "0xAHA/airtouch4_advanced",
  ...
]
```
No name, description, category tag, download count, or last-updated field
is present in this file — HACS resolves all of that at install time by
calling the GitHub API for each repo individually (releases, topics,
`hacs.json` inside the target repo), which this file does not provide.

## Probe — the other categories, same shape
```
curl -s -m 20 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hacs/default/master/plugin
curl -s -m 20 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hacs/default/master/theme
```
Both HTTP 200, both the identical bare-array-of-slugs shape:
`plugin` has **772** entries, `theme` has **107** — confirming the pattern
(one un-extensioned file per HACS category: `integration`, `plugin`,
`theme`, also `appdaemon`, `netdaemon`, `python_script`, `template` by the
same convention) rather than a single combined catalog file.

## Why this is a gotcha
The filename `integration` (no extension) is itself a trap for a naive
fetcher expecting `integration.json` — GitHub serves it as
`content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8` regardless. An agent that wants
"is repo X in HACS" has exactly one cheap check per category (string-match
the right one of these flat arrays); an agent that wants metadata about a
listed repo has to make N additional GitHub API calls, one per repo, with
no bulk endpoint and no cross-category index file.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:19:55Z, `curl` GET, keyless, single file.

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