diff --git a/docs/content-reference.md b/docs/content-reference.md
index 2be83cb..e657d13 100644
--- a/docs/content-reference.md
+++ b/docs/content-reference.md
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ reads is never a client-supplied parameter.
           states: [approved, refused]      # only these; empty means all
           where: { field: case, equals: "{key}" }
           jq: ".[] | {name, url: .html_url}"
+          limit: 1                 # at most this many, after jq
           empty: Nothing decided yet.
           link: { to: "/notices/{id}", label: Answer this }   # a page per record
           transitions:             # the desk's buttons
@@ -264,6 +265,14 @@ reads is never a client-supplied parameter.
 `source.kind` is one of `kv`, `gitea_starred`,
 `gitea_releases`, `url`.
 
+`limit: 1` shows only the first item — for a feed where only the newest
+matters. A releases card wants the cut someone should run, not every
+cut there has ever been, and a page that grows by one card per release
+gets longer forever. It applies *after* `jq`, so a filter can reorder
+and the limit takes the top of that ordering. A source that yields a
+single record has no length and ignores it; `limit: 0` on a list shows
+nothing, and the `empty` line speaks instead.
+
 A spec with neither `public: true` nor `requires_group` is
 unreachable: reads fail closed, and mutations always need a group
 whatever `public` says.
diff --git a/src/content/mod.rs b/src/content/mod.rs
index a3a2533..2c72386 100644
--- a/src/content/mod.rs
+++ b/src/content/mod.rs
@@ -519,6 +519,18 @@ pub struct ResourceSpec {
     /// it where the silence needs a voice ("Nothing released yet").
     #[serde(default)]
     pub empty: Option<String>,
+    /// Show at most this many items, applied after `jq`. For a feed
+    /// where only the newest matters: a releases card wants the cut you
+    /// should run, not every cut there has ever been, and a page that
+    /// grows by one card per release gets longer forever.
+    ///
+    /// After `jq` rather than before, so it caps what the page will
+    /// actually render whatever the filter did — and so content can
+    /// reorder with jq and still take the top of its own ordering. A
+    /// source that yields a single record has no length and passes
+    /// through untouched. `None` shows everything.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub limit: Option<usize>,
 }
 
 /// Where a resource's live data comes from. `Kv` (a NATS KV bucket
diff --git a/src/resource.rs b/src/resource.rs
index 8e7243c..32b8ae4 100644
--- a/src/resource.rs
+++ b/src/resource.rs
@@ -347,9 +347,29 @@ async fn fetch_resource_value(
         ResourceSource::Url { url } => fetch_url_json(url, params).await?,
     };
 
-    match &resource.jq {
-        Some(filter) => apply_jq(filter, &value),
-        None => Ok(value),
+    let shaped = match &resource.jq {
+        Some(filter) => apply_jq(filter, &value)?,
+        None => value,
+    };
+    Ok(apply_limit(resource.limit, shaped))
+}
+
+/// Keep at most `n` items, after `jq` has had its say.
+///
+/// Anything that is not a list passes through: a single record has no
+/// length to cap, and silently turning one into an empty list would be
+/// worse than ignoring a limit that cannot apply. A limit of zero does
+/// mean nothing — the resource's `empty` line speaks instead, which is
+/// a coherent thing for content to ask for.
+#[cfg(feature = "ssr")]
+fn apply_limit(limit: Option<usize>, value: serde_json::Value) -> serde_json::Value {
+    let Some(n) = limit else { return value };
+    match value {
+        serde_json::Value::Array(mut items) => {
+            items.truncate(n);
+            serde_json::Value::Array(items)
+        }
+        other => other,
     }
 }
 
@@ -664,6 +684,51 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(!matches_filter(&fixed, &record("open", serde_json::json!({ "which_authority": "Fire service" })), &params));
     }
 
+    /// `limit` caps what the page renders, and does it after `jq` so
+    /// content can order with the filter and take the top of its own
+    /// ordering. The releases card is the case: the newest cut is the
+    /// one you should run, and a page that grows a card per release
+    /// gets longer forever.
+    #[test]
+    fn limit_caps_a_list_after_the_filter() {
+        let releases = serde_json::json!([
+            {"name": "redoal 0.1.17", "tag_name": "v0.1.17", "body": "newest"},
+            {"name": "redoal 0.1.16", "tag_name": "v0.1.16", "body": "older"},
+            {"name": "redoal 0.1.15", "tag_name": "v0.1.15", "body": "oldest"}
+        ]);
+        // The filter redoal/questions actually declares: bare objects,
+        // never a wrapped array — the frontend re-wraps.
+        let filter = ".[] | {name: .name, description: .body, tag: .tag_name, url: null}";
+        let shaped = apply_jq(filter, &releases).expect("filter runs");
+
+        let all = apply_limit(None, shaped.clone());
+        assert_eq!(all.as_array().map(Vec::len), Some(3), "no limit shows everything");
+
+        let latest = apply_limit(Some(1), shaped.clone());
+        let rows = latest.as_array().expect("still a list");
+        assert_eq!(rows.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(rows[0]["tag"], "v0.1.17", "and it is the newest, which Gitea returns first");
+
+        let two = apply_limit(Some(2), shaped.clone());
+        assert_eq!(two.as_array().map(Vec::len), Some(2));
+
+        // Asking for more than there is is not an error.
+        let plenty = apply_limit(Some(99), shaped);
+        assert_eq!(plenty.as_array().map(Vec::len), Some(3));
+    }
+
+    /// A limit that cannot apply is ignored rather than guessed at.
+    #[test]
+    fn limit_leaves_a_single_record_alone() {
+        let one = serde_json::json!({"name": "a record", "state": "open"});
+        assert_eq!(apply_limit(Some(1), one.clone()), one);
+        assert_eq!(apply_limit(Some(0), one.clone()), one, "no length to cap");
+
+        // Zero on a list does mean nothing — the `empty` line speaks.
+        let list = serde_json::json!([{"a": 1}, {"a": 2}]);
+        assert_eq!(apply_limit(Some(0), list).as_array().map(Vec::len), Some(0));
+    }
+
     /// A canned, Gitea-API-shaped fixture - the same fields the real
     /// `/users/{username}/starred` endpoint returns (Gitea 1.27:
     /// `stars_count`, not GitHub's `stargazers_count`; `website` is ""