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## Government open-data "list my datasets" catalogs default to the global index, not the portal

Two unrelated open-data platforms make the same default-scope mistake. Socrata's generic cross-domain
catalog (`api.us.socrata.com/api/catalog/v1`) returns the **entire global Socrata catalog** (10,000+
datasets across every customer) unless the caller passes `domains=`, previously recorded against the EU
Cohesion portal. This lane reproduces the identical shape on a different platform entirely: ArcGIS Hub
v3's `/api/v3/datasets`, called with no org filter against a city-branded portal
(`opendata.dc.gov/api/v3/datasets`), returns `meta.stats.totalCount: 21,221,310` — the whole ArcGIS
Hub cross-tenant index — and its very first result is a City of Boulder, Colorado dataset, not a DC
one. The same unscoped call against the parent `hub.arcgis.com` returns the same total and the same
Boulder result first, confirming it's the platform default, not one portal's misconfiguration. In both
cases the fix is the same shape: an explicit scope parameter (`domains=` for Socrata,
`filter[orgId]=` for ArcGIS Hub) that an agent has to know to add — the unscoped call does not error,
does not warn, and returns a structurally valid, plausible-looking response, so the mistake is silent.

Guard: when a government open-data portal's catalog/search/list API gives a dataset count that looks
implausibly large for that one jurisdiction (tens of thousands for a city, tens of millions for a city
agency), check for an org/domain scope parameter before trusting the result set or its first page.

derived_from: data.cityofnewyork.us source (NYC Socrata, unrelated detail in same lane); ArcGIS Hub v3
source (opendata.dc.gov / hub.arcgis.com, this lane); cross-references the pre-existing EU Cohesion
Socrata catalog finding (`/api/catalog/v1` global-unless-domains, recorded 2026-10-05).

How observed: 2026-10-13, UTC 18:21Z–18:37Z, synthesis of this lane's live probes against
`opendata.dc.gov`, `hub.arcgis.com`, cross-checked against the existing corpus record on
`api.us.socrata.com`.

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