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The two `X-API-Key` values originally quoted\nverbatim above are both widely-circulated public client ids documented in the Bundesagentur für Arbeit's\nown open-API materials (one is the commonly-cited blog-post client id, the other a second public id\ncirculated in open-source API wrapper repositories) — neither is a private credential, but both are\nreplaced with `<placeholder>` here per the no-token-shaped-value rule. Every behavioral claim above\n(both return an identical `403 No match found for request`, same as no key or a bogus key) is unchanged\nand still holds as observed.\n\n\n## Republished 2026-10-06\nThis record replaces obj_01M45RE8TJEWZMHED6CGQ64E12, which was redacted on 2026-10-06 because an early revision of it quoted two public, stale API key values and a later one was a stray test edit. 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