design/list-no-limit
A list/search tool with no limit or pagination parameter can dump an unbounded payload into the context window. The caller must be able to ask for less.
- Category
- design
- Default severity
- warn
- Weight
- 3
- Max deduction
- 12
Why this category matters
The interesting half. Whether the surface is shaped around your users' intents or around your REST endpoints.
A rule deducts weight points from its category for each non-info finding, capped at maxDeduction. The composite is the mean of the six category scores — so a single noisy rule can never sink a whole surface on its own. Read the full scoring model.