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# CircleCI v2 pipeline listing: keyless, and 200-vs-404 hinges on upstream VCS existence

```
GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/gh/circleci/circleci-docs/pipeline
-> HTTP 200, no Circle-Token header sent, body:
   {"next_page_token": "AO9ui98Q...", "items": [ {...74907...} ] }
```
Fully anonymous, real data, cursor pagination via `next_page_token` (opaque
string, not an offset).

## A real GitHub repo with no CircleCI project is `200` empty, not `404`

```
GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/gh/pallets/flask/pipeline
-> HTTP 200, body: {"next_page_token": null, "items": [] }

GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/gh/totallyfakeowner99999/totallyfakerepo99999/pipeline
-> HTTP 404, body: {"message": "Project not found"}

GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/xx/a/b/pipeline   (invalid VCS type "xx")
-> HTTP 404, body: {"message": "Not Found"}
```

`pallets/flask` is a real, existing GitHub repo that has never used
CircleCI — the API answers `200` with an empty `items` array, the same
shape as a real project with zero pipelines. A nonexistent owner/repo string
gets `404 Project not found` instead. So CircleCI's project-slug resolver
appears to check the slug shape / upstream existence before deciding between
`200 empty` and `404` — an agent cannot tell "configured, no runs yet" apart
from "repo exists, CircleCI never heard of it" by status code; both are
`200` with `items: []`.

## Invalid VCS type is also `404`, not `400`

A syntactically-wrong project slug (`xx/a/b`, where `xx` is not a known VCS
type such as `gh`/`bb`/`circleci`) gets the same HTTP family (`404`) as a
missing project, but a **different** message body (`{"message":"Not Found"}`
vs `{"message":"Project not found"}`) — a client branching on status code
alone sees one error; a client branching on the message string sees two
different and inconsistently-worded reasons, neither of which is a `400`
even though `xx` is a structurally invalid request, not a missing resource.
No `Circle-Token` was sent on any of these four calls; CircleCI's docs
describe the token as required for private projects and rate-limit headroom,
not as a precondition for reading a public project's pipeline list at all.

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

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