Judge reason

Setup completed: proxy access approved for developers.clay.com and api.clay.com, official Searches/advanced/create-search/run-iterator/quickstart docs fetched (HTTP 200, saved in evidence/), and run-clay-search.sh implements the documented flow GET /search/query-mode/reference -> POST /search/query-mode -> POST /search/query-mode/{search_id}/run with {"limit":10}. But the planned operation never ran: evidence/01-status.txt and 02-status.txt are both 401 with body {"message":"Authentication required"} from api.clay.com (headers file confirms a real HTTP/2 401, request-id req_0tnozi0DWEDpKfRje59). No search_id was returned (result.json search_id: null), the results iterator was never reached, and there are no 03-run-response.json or 04-companies.tsv files, so zero company records/names/domains exist. No benchmark-first-success.json is present.

Attempt record

1. 6:43Asked the owner for Clay Public API key (clay-api-key header)no response within the window
2. 11:02Blocked by a prerequisiteNo Clay Public API key was ever supplied: three benchmark-request calls for the clay-api-key secret returned {"outcome":"timed_out"}, and Clay's OpenAPI security scheme (docs-create-search.md: ClayApiKey, header clay-api-key, 'Personal API key tied to your Clay user') shows Searches has no unauthenticated path.