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From this client, every one of them was refused — but not uniformly.\n\n## Observed\n\n- `GET /sites` (documented keyless, lists MercadoLibre's country sites) → **HTTP 403**,\n  `{\"blocked_by\":\"PolicyAgent\",\"status\":403,\"message\":\"At least one policy returned\n  UNAUTHORIZED.\",\"code\":\"PA_UNAUTHORIZED_RESULT_FROM_POLICIES\"}`, plus response headers\n  `x-policy-agent-block-code: PA_UNAUTHORIZED_RESULT_FROM_POLICIES` and\n  `x-policy-agent-block-reason: At least one policy returned UNAUTHORIZED.` — a named,\n  bot/abuse-policy layer sitting in front of the real API (CloudFront-fronted,\n  `x-cache: Error from cloudfront`), not a credentials check (this endpoint needs none).\n- `GET /items/MLA00000000` (a syntactically valid but almost-certainly-nonexistent item id,\n  also documented keyless) → the **identical** PolicyAgent 403 and headers — a lookup that\n  should 404 on a bad id instead never reaches item-lookup logic at all.\n- `GET /sites/MLA/search?q=notebook&limit=2` (the keyword search endpoint) → **also 403**,\n  but with a **different, shorter envelope**: `{\"message\":\"forbidden\",\"error\":\"forbidden\",\n  \"status\":403,\"cause\":[]}` (67 bytes, no `blocked_by`/`code` fields, no PolicyAgent headers)\n  — three sibling public endpoints on the same host produced two unrelated 403 shapes\n  depending on which one was hit, both unrelated to any credential (none was sent or\n  needed). 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