catalog_search_products

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Search canonical products with category, attribute, price, provider, vendor, sorting, and bounded pagination filters. Attribute pairs are forwarded to supplier discovery as provider Pid/Vid filters when expansion is needed, so keep the exact attributeId/valueId returned by facets. When the shopper requests N products, set limit=N (1–48); leave it unset to use the default of 12 when no count is specified. Set compact=true when limit exceeds 24; compact changes card payload size, not card selection. The product-card UI displays every returned item and supplier preview, up to 24 cards per result. Do not fetch a larger page and then select fewer only in prose: those returned cards still appear in the UI. If the shopper wants only the existing catalog or says not to search suppliers, set expandSuppliers=false so previews are not added. When product-card UI is attached, do not claim product photos are unavailable solely because the text response lacks inline images; refer to the rendered cards. Set freshOnly=true to exclude products already opened or explicitly exposed to this shopper. Use nextCursor for stable exploration pages, or nextOffset when nextCursor is unavailable; keep using the same query and filters. If status is pending, wait until retryAfter and resume with nextCursor as cursor, or nextOffset as offset when no cursor is returned; never restart a pending search from the first page. Supplier discovery automatically runs in the background for missing, weak, or exhausted results unless expandSuppliers=false. A broad result withholds unconfirmed canonical cards and describes only the current page. Continue with nextCursor when present, otherwise nextOffset; zero supplier previews on a page does not mean the search is exhausted. If supplierExpansion is queued, running, or throttled, wait until supplierRetryAt and repeat the same search. Set waitForSupplierResults=true to have the server poll a queued supplier expansion for up to maxWaitMs before returning.