API server startup and key validation issues

Cluster 83750 · gateway. Data as of 2026-10-26 12:29 UTC

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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Known?: Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event: No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker: The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open: 1 issue and 1 PR.

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Reports of the API server failing to start, alongside fixes that add warnings when the API_SERVER_KEY value is too short.

Open issues1

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

#83826 fix: warn when API_SERVER_KEY is set but too short (#83750) · superseded by another PR → #88110

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Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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