generated: '2026-08-13'
method: probed
source: >-
  live unauthenticated requests to https://beacons.ai/api/v001/* on 2026-08-13
docs: null
limit_count: 0
limit_count_note: >-
  Beacons publishes NO rate limits. There is no developer portal, no API reference
  and no help-centre article stating a limit, a window or a quota, so no numeric
  limit can be recorded. What IS recorded below is the runtime behaviour observed
  on live requests, which is the part an agent actually has to handle.
limits: []
observed_behavior:
- surface: https://beacons.ai/api/v001/* (any path other than the MCP resource)
  status: 429
  body: 'Rate limit exceeded'
  content_type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
  note: >-
    Every unauthenticated request to an unmatched /api/v001/ path returns 429 on
    the FIRST call from a cold IP — /api/v001/openapi.json, /api/v001/docs,
    /api/v001/creator and a randomly generated nonexistent path all behaved
    identically. This is a blanket catch-all, not an exhausted quota: the MCP
    resource on the same prefix returned 401 (not 429) on the same connections.
    The practical effect is that the /api/v001/ namespace is unenumerable and a
    404 is indistinguishable from throttling.
- surface: https://beacons.ai/api/v001/creator/mcp
  status: 401
  note: The MCP resource answers with an auth challenge rather than 429, so it is
    exempt from the catch-all.
response_headers:
  ratelimit_standard: absent
  x_ratelimit: absent
  retry_after: absent
  note: >-
    The 429 response carries no RateLimit-*, no X-RateLimit-*, and no Retry-After.
    A client is told to back off with no signal of how much or for how long, which
    makes correct retry behaviour impossible to implement from the response alone.
    Headers present on the 429 were limited to date, content-type, vary,
    x-cloud-trace-context, server (cloudflare), via, cf-cache-status,
    strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options and cf-ray.
exhaustion_status: 429
x-evidence:
- fetched: '2026-08-13'
  url: https://beacons.ai/api/v001/openapi.json
  http_status: 429
- fetched: '2026-08-13'
  url: https://beacons.ai/api/v001/zzz-nonexistent-path-9182
  http_status: 429
- fetched: '2026-08-13'
  url: https://beacons.ai/api/v001/creator/mcp
  http_status: 401