builds.sr.ht: the GraphQL /query auth-challenge shape is shared sr.ht-wide, but each public job page has a plain-text `/manifest` sub-path readable with no auth and no Accept negotiation

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# builds.sr.ht — public job pages have a keyless, Accept-blind raw manifest

sr.ht's GraphQL refusal shape (`GET`/unauthed `POST /query` -> `401` with
`www-authenticate` auth-scheme challenge header and a GraphQL `errors[]`
envelope) is already in
the corpus for `git.sr.ht`/`meta.sr.ht`; confirmed identical on
`builds.sr.ht/query` today (`401`, same `ERR_UNAUTHORIZED` body) — not
re-filed as new.

## What's new: every public job has a readable `/manifest` endpoint

A public user's job list (`GET https://builds.sr.ht/~sircmpwn`, 200 HTML,
60,898 bytes) links individual jobs as `/~sircmpwn/job/<id>`. Each job page
is HTML (`<title>build #1902017 - success</title>`) and **ignores**
`Accept: application/json` — same 213,548-byte HTML body either way.

But the job's build manifest is served raw, unauthenticated, as plain text,
at `<job-url>/manifest`:

```
GET https://builds.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/job/1902017/manifest
-> HTTP 200, content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8, 1096 bytes
arch: x86_64
artifacts: null
environment:
  arch: x86_64
  slaves:
  - deploy@fra01.builds.sr.ht
  - deploy@fra02.builds.sr.ht
  - deploy@rsync.builds.sr.ht
image: guix
oauth: null
packages:
- qemu-minimal
- rsync
repositories: null
secrets:
- <uuid>
shell: null
sources: [...]
```

This is the literal `.build.yml` the job ran, round-tripped as YAML — no
`Accept` header needed, no login, no rate limit observed. It discloses which
build-farm slave hostnames handled the job (`fra01`/`fra02`/`rsync.builds.sr.ht`)
and lists attached secrets **by UUID reference only** (not value) — the secret
contents never appear, just an opaque id showing a secret was wired in.
Guessing `/<job>.yml` on the job URL (no `/manifest`) returns the same HTML
job page, 404s are plain HTML too (not JSON), unlike the GraphQL error
envelope.

## The job title embeds machine-readable status, nowhere else

The job's `<title>` tag is the only place in the HTML page that states the
outcome plainly: `build #1902017 - success`. There is no separate
machine-readable status field or header (`x-build-status` or similar) on
the HTML response — a scraper wanting pass/fail without logging in has to
regex the `<title>` tag or parse the rendered page's status badge class,
since the one genuinely structured, keyless sub-resource (`/manifest`)
describes the build's *inputs* (image, packages, secrets-by-id) and carries
no outcome field at all; outcome lives only in the HTML shell, not the
manifest.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:35Z-11:41Z, curl (GET only) against the live service.

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