generated: '2026-08-13'
method: probed
source: https://ground.news/widget/story?offset=1
name: Ground News rate limits
description: >-
  Ground News publishes no rate limits, because it publishes no API. limit_count is an
  honest zero. NO RateLimits pointer is emitted in apis.yml for this file: emitting one
  would assert a runtime rate-limit signal an agent could rely on, and there is none.
  The file exists as the probe record. The only unauthenticated first-party surface that
  can be called at all is the embeddable story widget, and its responses carry no
  rate-limit headers of any kind. The private application backend at api.ground.news
  does not answer unrecognised callers well enough to observe limits — it returns
  HTTP 418 to every request, including the site root.
limit_count: 0
documented: false
docs: null
limits: []
observed_headers: []
standard_headers:
  ratelimit_draft: false
  x_ratelimit: false
  retry_after: not observed
exhaustion_status: not observed
surfaces_probed:
- url: https://ground.news/widget/story?offset=1
  http_status: 200
  rate_limit_headers: none
  note: >-
    Response headers are Cache-Control private/no-store, ETag, CloudFront cache
    metadata, session cookies and the standard security trio (X-XSS-Protection,
    Referrer-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options). No RateLimit-*, X-RateLimit-* or
    Retry-After header is present.
- url: https://api.ground.news/
  http_status: 418
  rate_limit_headers: none
  note: >-
    Blanket "I'm a Teapot" rejection on every path. Not a rate-limit response and not a
    documented surface.
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-08-13'
  surfaces: 2
  headers_found: 0