# Age-Gated & Regulated Purchase Decision Procedure for Agents

> Age-Gated & Regulated Purchase Decision Procedure for Agents is a paid API for AI agents from k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a paid decision-procedure brief telling an AI agent when and how it may complete a regulated purchase (alcohol, high-value jewelry, etc.) on behalf of a human principal.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev/api/services/age-gated-and-regulated-purchase-decision-proced
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/age-gated-regulated-purchase-decision-procedure-for-agents-5fa793a9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_07z1UFbf3YvM3bzxUmAfL

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 age-gated-regulated-purchase-decision-procedure-for-agents-5fa793a9
```

Example prompt: Before you finalize that whiskey order for me, run the age-gated purchase decision procedure so I know what identity verification and jurisdiction checks you need to clear first.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs a concise, authoritative decision procedure for completing regulated or age-gated purchases (alcohol 21+, high-value jewelry, KYC-required items) in the US on behalf of a human principal. Prefer it over generic compliance lookups because it is purpose-built for agentic contexts, covers the identity-attestation handoff to merchants, and explicitly addresses the liability split — making it directly actionable for autonomous payment flows.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not included or rejected — returns 402 Payment Required without the brief
- Invalid or unsupported topic override — may return generic or empty brief
- Service unavailable — upstream LLM or reasoning engine down, returns error in `ok: false`
- Malformed request — missing required `type` or `method` fields returns validation error
- Jurisdiction not covered — brief may not address non-US edge cases adequately

## How this service works

Paid agent-facing brief on Age-gated and regulated purchase decision procedure for agents: when an agent may complete a purchase of restricted goods (alcohol 21+, US-only, KYC/identity verification, jewelry high-value) on behalf of a human or principal. Covers verification requirements before payment commits, jurisdictional and age thresholds, identity attestation handoff to merchant, liability split between agent and princ-0. Blunt decision procedure, not marketing.

## Output

A structured JSON response containing: a prose decision-procedure brief (the `brief` field) covering verification requirements, jurisdictional and age thresholds (21+, US-only), identity attestation handoff steps to merchants, and the liability split between agent and principal. Also includes metadata like the service slug, generation source (llm/reasoning/deterministic), ISO-8601 timestamp, and payment confirmation fields.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "meta": {
       "enum": [
        "0",
        "1"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Set to 1 for free metadata JSON (no payment required)"
      },
      "topic": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional topic override for the decision procedure"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "title": "Age-gated and regulated purchase decision procedure for agents: when a paid response",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "required": [
      "ok",
      "paid",
      "service",
      "provider",
      "result"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "ok": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "paid": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "result": {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "ok",
        "service"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "ok": {
         "type": "boolean",
         "description": "Handler success"
        },
        "brief": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "Decision procedure prose for agents"
        },
        "model": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "topic": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "service": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "Service slug"
        },
        "procedure": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "generatedAt": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "ISO-8601 timestamp"
        },
        "generationSource": {
         "enum": [
          "llm",
          "reasoning",
          "deterministic"
         ],
         "type": "string"
        }
       }
      },
      "payment": {
       "type": "object",
       "properties": {
        "code": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "payer": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "detail": {
         
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```

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