# AEML AI Tool / MCP Alive-Oracle & Death Forensics

> AEML AI Tool / MCP Alive-Oracle & Death Forensics is a paid API for AI agents from aeml-x402.zeabur.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns lifecycle status, death signals, zombie detection, and cross-validated narrative for a named AI tool or MCP, using real DNS/GitHub/directory signals.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://aeml-x402.zeabur.app/gauge/tool-region
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/aeml-ai-tool-mcp-alive-oracle-death-forensics-6bbdb710
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ukgiTCKaVSgp8xgCJAqtB

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability aeml-ai-tool-mcp-alive-oracle-death-forensics-6bbdb710
```

Example prompt: Check if mammoth-ai is still alive — I want to know its current lifecycle status, whether its GitHub repo is archived, if its page has disappeared, and whether it's a zombie tool still being recommended after shutdown.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a multi-signal, cross-validated liveness and lifecycle check for a specific AI tool or MCP — combining real DNS resolution, GitHub archive status, pricing anomaly detection, and zombie-in-directory detection in one call. Prefer over manual Google searches or single-signal checks when you need verifiable, citable evidence of whether a tool is alive, dying, or already dead but still being recommended.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown entity key returns no data or empty legs
- DNS or GitHub sources temporarily unreachable causing stale data
- Tool is ambiguously named causing misidentification
- Zombie detection may lag if AI directory crawl is not recent
- Payment of 0.1 USDC required — missing or failed x402 payment returns 402 error
- Source data frozen/dead triggers dead_source flag in provenance

## How this service works

[3-LEG] AI tool and MCP chain, one tool (?entity=mammoth-ai): leading decay warnings, release cadence stalling and docs going dark -> current live or dead status from real DNS and GitHub checks -> realized lifecycle from launch to death with days alive (confirmation gate). A sequential chain, not one reading - confidence = how many legs are lit, in order. Sources: DNS, GitHub, package registries. Descriptive only, never a forecast or advice. No data -> 422 no_charge, not billed.

## Output

Returns a structured object with: entity key, alive/dead lifecycle reading across DNS and GitHub legs, days-alive count, death/decay warning signals (page gone, pricing surge, GitHub archived), zombie detection flag (dead tool still being recommended), cross-line narrative describing the situation in neutral observational language, data provenance with freshness status, and an offline-verifiable Ed25519-signed citation anchoring the claims to traceable sources.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "type": "string",
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ]
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": false,
     "properties": {
      "entity": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "required - monitored object id, paired with signal_id; free list at GET /gauge/catalog?signal_id=<signal_id> -> signals[0].entities[]",
       "examples": [
        "jasper-ai",
        "perplexity-ai",
        "midjourney",
        "runwayml",
        "elevenlabs",
        "cursor"
       ],
       "x-accepted-values": {
        "shown": 6,
        "total": 21,
        "all": "https://api.truthbear.co/schemas/gauge-tool-region.input.json"
       }
      }
     },
     "required": [
      "entity"
     ]
    }
   },
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "queryParams"
   ]
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {}
   },
   "required": [
    "type"
   ]
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/aeml-ai-tool-mcp-alive-oracle-death-forensics-6bbdb710/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from aeml-x402.zeabur.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/aeml-x402.zeabur.app/llms.txt)