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      "slug": "deel",
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      "vendor": "Deel, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.deel.com",
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      "category": "hr",
      "summary": "Deel is a global HR, payroll and employer-of-record platform. Its REST API and hosted MCP server let an agent read and update people records, time off, organisation structure, onboarding, contracts and compliance documents.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/letsdeel/deel-cli",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Deel's platform terms. The Deel CLI on GitHub is MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "sse"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@deel-org/cli"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@deel-developers/deel"
        }
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      "authNotes": "Self-serve for an existing Deel customer. An admin creates an organisation or personal token in the Developer Centre (More, Developer, Access Tokens), choosing scopes and what sensitive data it can read, or registers an OAuth 2 app. No partner or sales approval is documented for a company's own data. Publishing to the Deel App Store has its own submission step, and worker tokens need the Embedded partnership. The MCP server takes OAuth with PKCE and dynamic client registration, or a personal token. Scopes follow `{resource}:read` and `{resource}:write`.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "No separate API charge was found. Access comes with a Deel account, priced per person a month. Deel HR is $5 (Core), $19 (Advanced) or $29 (Elite) per employee, contractor management $49 per contractor and EOR $599 per employee. No free plan is on the pricing page, whose buttons book a demo. The quickstart says a sandbox can be created from the Developer Centre after signing up at app.deel.com. We didn't sign up, so whether that needs a card or a contract is unconfirmed (https://www.deel.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-07).",
      "priceSummary": "$5 / seat-mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI specs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).",
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      "openapi": "https://developer.deel.com/openapi/endpoints-5.json",
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        "hr.employees",
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        "hr.documents"
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        "hosted",
        "official",
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        "closed-source",
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        "webhooks",
        "sandbox",
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          "maintenance": 70,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 88,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 64,
          "transparency": 69
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-07"
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        "verdict": "The API has 506 operations in public OpenAPI 3.1 specs, about 90 read and write OAuth scopes, a sandbox and a dated versioning policy with one year of deprecation notice. The limit is 5 requests a second for a whole organisation, and the legal documents load only with JavaScript, so data handling terms weren't read.",
        "bestFor": "A company that already runs HR, contractors, EOR or payroll on Deel and wants an agent to read the directory, update personal information, file and review time off, follow onboarding and fetch compliance documents.",
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          "Public OpenAPI 3.1 specs with 506 operations and 55 webhook events, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page",
          "OAuth 2 with PKCE and dynamic client registration, about 90 scopes split into read and write, and single-use refresh tokens",
          "Date-based versions with at least one year stable, one year deprecated, and `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers",
          "Changelog with 20 dated entries between 2 September and 5 October 2026",
          "Sandbox at api-staging.letsdeel.com with sample data, simulated payments and no emails sent to workers"
        ],
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          "5 requests a second shared by every token in an organisation, with no rate limit headers on REST responses per the rate limits page",
          "The OpenAPI links in the docs index return 404. The working specs sit under developer.deel.com/openapi/",
          "The idempotency guide covers POST and PATCH, but the spec declares the `Idempotency-Key` header on one operation",
          "TypeScript SDK last published on 13 March 2025, and no Python SDK found",
          "Privacy policy, DPA and platform terms render only with JavaScript, and no public sub-processor list or SLA was read"
        ],
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          "Queue calls to stay under 5 requests a second for the whole organisation. Other integrations on the same account share the limit",
          "Send `X-Version: 2026-01-01` on REST calls, and watch `X-State`, `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers",
          "Send a UUID `Idempotency-Key` on POST and PATCH. Only retry a 5xx on a write when the request carried one",
          "Test against https://api-staging.letsdeel.com/rest with a sandbox token. Production and sandbox tokens aren't interchangeable",
          "Request read scopes only (people:read, time-off:read) for a read-only agent. Rejecting a time-off request is irreversible"
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          "measured": false
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            "grade": "B",
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              "tasks"
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          "maintenance": 70,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 88,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 64,
          "transparency": 43
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        "provenanceScore": 94
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      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install -g @deel-org/cli",
        "http": "curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/contracts' \\\n  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' \\\n  -H 'X-Version: 2026-01-01'",
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              "url": "https://api.letsdeel.com/mcp"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/hr.employees",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/deel"
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      "area": "business",
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          "item": "Deel HR Core",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "per employee"
        },
        {
          "item": "Deel HR Advanced",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 19,
          "note": "per employee"
        },
        {
          "item": "Deel HR Elite",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 29,
          "note": "per employee"
        },
        {
          "item": "Contractor management",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 49,
          "note": "per contractor"
        },
        {
          "item": "Employer of record",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 599,
          "note": "per EOR employee"
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        "domain": "deel.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1998-04-21",
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        "terms": "https://www.deel.com/legal/platform-terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.deel.com/legal/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.deel.com",
        "changelog": "https://developer.deel.com/api/changelog",
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          "The entity name comes from the copyright line of the MIT licence in letsdeel/deel-cli (Copyright (c) 2026 Deel, Inc.). The legal pages on deel.com returned no document text without JavaScript, so the contracting entity in the terms wasn't read.",
          "The API and MCP server answer on api.letsdeel.com and the sandbox on api-staging.letsdeel.com. letsdeel.com is Deel's second domain, registered 2018-10-16 per RDAP, and the docs on developer.deel.com name it.",
          "https://www.deel.com/.well-known/security.txt gives a Contact and Policy of https://www.deel.com/security and expires on 21 July 2027. api.letsdeel.com and app.deel.com return 404 for the same path.",
          "RDAP for deel.com gives a registration date of 1998-04-21.",
          "trust.deel.com is a JavaScript application and returned no readable content."
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          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:08.580422246Z",
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          "url": "https://deel.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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            "url": "https://developer.deel.com/api/changelog",
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            "url": "https://www.deel.com/pricing/",
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    "answer": "Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Zoho People's 55 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.",
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      "slug": "zoho-people",
      "name": "Zoho People",
      "vendor": "Zoho",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.zoho.com/people/",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "hr",
      "summary": "Cloud HR system from Zoho covering employee records, leave, attendance, timesheets, onboarding, performance and learning. Agents reach it through a REST API with OAuth 2.0, available on paid plans.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-people.json",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the Zoho Terms of Service",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://people.zoho.com/api",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "oauth",
      "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 only in the current docs. A person registers a client in the Zoho API console (web, mobile, JavaScript, non-browser or a self client for one organisation) and approves scopes of the form `ZOHOPEOPLE.\u003carea\u003e.\u003coperation\u003e`. The access token lasts one hour and goes in `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e`. The refresh token lasts until revoked. Each data centre (US, EU, India, Australia, Japan, China) has its own accounts host. Registration is self-serve, with no app review or sales approval for use inside one's own organisation. The authentication page still links to a legacy authentication token page, which returns 404.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Paid plans only for the API. Essential HR, Professional, Premium and Enterprise cost $1.25, $2, $3 and $4.50 a user a month billed yearly ($1.50, $2.50, $3.50 and $5 monthly), with a five-user minimum. A separate United States plan set costs $3 to $8 a user a month billed yearly. The Free plan covers five users and has no API access. A 30-day trial of any paid plan is self-serve, and the account drops to Free when it ends. Prices come from the feed the pricing page loads (https://www.zoho.com/people/zohopeople-pricing.html, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$1.25 / seat-mo",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the pricing pages or the terms (checked 2026-10-08).",
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        "hr.time-off",
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        "hr.onboarding",
        "hr.documents"
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        "paid",
        "free-trial",
        "oauth",
        "llms-txt",
        "webhooks",
        "status-page",
        "bug-bounty",
        "soc2"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-08-01",
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        "score": 55,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 523,
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        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 48,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 77,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 73
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        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
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        "verdict": "The REST API covers employee forms, leave, attendance, timesheets, files and learning, with per-endpoint rate limits and Markdown docs listed in an llms.txt. No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog was found, the Free plan has no API access, and several scopes come only as ALL.",
        "bestFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs Zoho People on a paid plan, for directory reads, leave requests, attendance and timesheet entries at modest volume.",
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          "Every reference page states a per-minute threshold and a five-minute lock period, and daily call caps are published per plan",
          "An llms.txt at `/people/api/llms.txt` lists 339 reference pages, each served as Markdown",
          "Plan prices are public, from $1.25 a user a month billed yearly, with a 30-day trial of any paid plan",
          "security.txt valid to 30 June 2028, a bug bounty, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001, 27701, 27017 and 27018"
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          "No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog found. The product What's New page has no API entries for 2026",
          "The Free plan has no API access. Paid plans cap calls at 5,000 to 25,000 a day",
          "Employee, attendance, time tracker, dashboard and automation scopes are listed only as ALL, with no read-only form",
          "Three URL styles coexist (unversioned form endpoints, v2 and v3), with different parameter names, paging and error formats",
          "The documented token refresh call carries the refresh token and client secret in the URL query string"
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          "Use the accounts host and API host of the organisation's data centre. Tokens issued in one region fail in another",
          "Stay under each page's threshold, often 30 calls a minute. Exceeding it locks that endpoint for five minutes",
          "Page form records with `sIndex` and `limit`, at most 200 a call, and use `modifiedtime` to fetch only changes",
          "Look up form and field label names with `/api/forms` before writing. `inputData` takes label names, and lookup fields take record IDs",
          "Send the refresh token and client secret in the POST body, not the query string, and store the refresh token, which never expires"
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          "measured": false
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
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            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 48,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 77,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "provenanceScore": 95
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl --location 'https://people.zoho.com/api/forms' \\\n  --header \"Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken $ZOHO_ACCESS_TOKEN\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/hr.employees",
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        "zoho-zeptomail",
        "zoho-crm",
        "zoho-recruit"
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      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
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          "item": "Essential HR",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 1.25,
          "note": "billed yearly; $1.50 billed monthly; five-user minimum; API capped at 5,000 calls a day"
        },
        {
          "item": "Professional",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 2,
          "note": "billed yearly; $2.50 billed monthly; API capped at 10,000 calls a day"
        },
        {
          "item": "Premium",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 3,
          "note": "billed yearly; $3.50 billed monthly; API capped at 15,000 calls a day"
        },
        {
          "item": "Enterprise",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 4.5,
          "note": "billed yearly; $5 billed monthly; API capped at 25,000 calls a day"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Zoho Corporation Private Limited",
        "domain": "zoho.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2004-01-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.zoho.com/terms.html",
        "privacy": "https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html",
        "statusPage": "https://status.zoho.com",
        "changelog": "https://www.zoho.com/people/whats-new.html",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The Terms of Service (last updated 2 March 2022) are the service agreement for Zoho's online services. The contracting entity depends on the customer's region, Zoho Corporation Private Limited for India and Zoho Corporation for the United States (https://www.zoho.com/legal/zoho-contracting-entities.html).",
          "The privacy policy was last updated on 22 December 2025. Its Part II covers data customers store in Zoho services. A separate Zoho People privacy notice at https://www.zoho.com/people/privacy-policy.html adds terms for facial recognition and location data in attendance.",
          "API calls go to people.zoho.com and its regional equivalents, on Zoho's own domains. OAuth runs on accounts.zoho.com.",
          "status.zoho.com redirects to us.zohostatus.com, which lists Zoho People as a component.",
          "security.txt at www.zoho.com gives a bug bounty contact, security@zohocorp.com, a policy link and an expiry of 30 June 2028.",
          "What's New is a product changelog dated by month, newest August 2026. No API changelog was found.",
          "RDAP for zoho.com gives a registration date of 2004-01-16."
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        "score": 95
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-people.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Deel (B)\n\nGood for: A company that already runs HR, contractors, EOR or payroll on Deel and wants an agent to read the directory, update personal information, file and review time off, follow onboarding and fetch compliance documents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 88 against 77\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 43\n- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 48\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 48\n\nWatch for: 5 requests a second shared by every token in an organisation, with no rate limit headers on REST responses per the rate limits page\n\n### Zoho People (C)\n\nGood for: An agent working inside a company that already runs Zoho People on a paid plan, for directory reads, leave requests, attendance and timesheet entries at modest volume.\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog found. The product What's New page has no API entries for 2026\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Deel | Zoho People | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 88 | 77 | Deel +11 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 43 | Deel +42 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 48 | Deel +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 60 | Deel +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 48 | Deel +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 73 | Zoho People +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.1 · B** | **55 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Deel | Zoho People |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Deel, Inc. | Zoho |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.letsdeel.com/rest` | `https://people.zoho.com/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Deel's platform terms. 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The limit is 5 requests a second for a whole organisation, and the legal documents load only with JavaScript, so data handling terms weren't read.\n\n**Zoho People.** The REST API covers employee forms, leave, attendance, timesheets, files and learning, with per-endpoint rate limits and Markdown docs listed in an llms.txt. No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog was found, the Free plan has no API access, and several scopes come only as ALL.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Deel\n\n1. Queue calls to stay under 5 requests a second for the whole organisation. Other integrations on the same account share the limit\n2. Send `X-Version: 2026-01-01` on REST calls, and watch `X-State`, `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers\n3. Send a UUID `Idempotency-Key` on POST and PATCH. Only retry a 5xx on a write when the request carried one\n4. Test against https://api-staging.letsdeel.com/rest with a sandbox token. Production and sandbox tokens aren't interchangeable\n5. Request read scopes only (people:read, time-off:read) for a read-only agent. Rejecting a time-off request is irreversible\n\n### Zoho People\n\n1. Use the accounts host and API host of the organisation's data centre. Tokens issued in one region fail in another\n2. Stay under each page's threshold, often 30 calls a minute. Exceeding it locks that endpoint for five minutes\n3. Page form records with `sIndex` and `limit`, at most 200 a call, and use `modifiedtime` to fetch only changes\n4. Look up form and field label names with `/api/forms` before writing. `inputData` takes label names, and lookup fields take record IDs\n5. 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