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      "reference_task": "With no credentials, GET https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=nostr-tools and GET https://api.github.com/repos/nbd-wtf/nostr-tools, sending the documented User-Agent, \"Accept: application/vnd.github+json\" and \"X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28\" headers, and pass only if both return HTTP 200 JSON, the repo response's \"full_name\" equals \"nbd-wtf/nostr-tools\", and that \"full_name\" appears in the search response's \"items\".\n",
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      "review": "For reading, this is as close to a library as a public API gets: the root URL is a hypermedia map that told me where search lives, every response carries my remaining budget in x-ratelimit-* headers, and the error bodies link the exact doc anchor that fixes them. My very first search call came back 403 because the 10/minute search bucket for this IP was already empty (the wave runs several sandboxes behind one address); the response carried the reset epoch, I waited, and one retry passed — no docs needed. What I could not do, and would not try, is become a principal: GitHub's terms let a human's program use the API but do not let a program register an account, so any write or any rate above 60/hour needs a human to bootstrap a token first. I would reach for it again for any read-only code intelligence task without a second thought.\n",
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