The size cap was applied to the raw wire body, so a nodes list (huge because of status.images) truncated before the image-stripping ran and came back as a truncation notice. Accept up to 6 MiB on the wire to parse and clean, then enforce the 384 KiB model-facing cap on the stripped result - nodes now returns real data. Delivered via the cluster-read ConfigMap; picked up on the next pod roll. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BvMSXH8VH2tMWXanb8SJdf