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title: systems.gaze.hydrant.* #

these are some non-standard XRPCs that might be useful.

systems.gaze.hydrant.countRecords #

return the total number of stored records in a collection.

param	required	description
identifier	yes	DID or handle of the repository.
collection	yes	NSID of the collection.

returns { count }.

systems.gaze.hydrant.describeRepo #

return account and identity information about this repo. this is equal to com.atproto.repo.describeRepo, except we don't return the full DID document. the handle is bi-directionally verified, if its invalid or the handle does not exist we return "handle.invalid".

param	required	description
identifier	yes	DID or handle of the repository.

returns { did, handle, pds, collections }.