Ref T13102. See PHI461. An install is interested in querying projects by slug.
I think I omitted this capability originally only because we're not consistent about what slugs are called (they are "Slugs" internally, but "Hashtags" in the UI).
However, this ship has sort of already sailed because the results have a "slug" field. Just expose this as "slugs" for consistency with the existing API field and try to smooth thing over with a little documentation hint.