# Agent Council (Grounded)

> Agent Council (Grounded) is a paid API for AI agents from council.cyberwarex.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Buys real-world evidence (honeypot checks, sanctions screens, web content, SEC profiles) for a contract address, URL, or ticker, then routes it through 4 AI models in two deliberation rounds to return a sourced, evidence-backed verdict.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://council.cyberwarex.com/grounded?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-council-grounded-c6416589
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tYm5RTAutlVW114R15NU0

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 agent-council-grounded-c6416589
```

Example prompt: Before I ape into this token, can you run a full grounded council check on contract address 0x1f9840a85d5aF5bf1D1762F925BDADdC4201F984 — I want honeypot simulation, sanctions screen, and a multi-model verdict on whether it's safe?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a verdict that is explicitly grounded in purchased, real-world evidence rather than model priors alone. It is best for high-stakes decisions involving crypto tokens, smart contracts, URLs, or tickers where you need honeypot simulation, sanctions screening, SEC lookups, and web results combined with multi-model deliberation. Prefer this over the basic or deep council endpoints when the question involves a concrete on-chain address, a specific URL, or a ticker that evidence APIs can act on. It is slower and costs more than single-round councils but provides full source attribution and spend transparency.

## Known failure modes

- No contract address, URL, or ticker found in question — evidence gathering cannot proceed
- Question exceeds 2000 character limit
- External data sources (honeypot simulator, sanctions API, SEC, web search) return no results or time out
- Spend cap exhausted before all evidence sources are queried
- Ambiguous ticker symbol matching multiple assets
- Payment (x402, $0.05 USDC) fails or is not provided

## How this service works

The grounded council: we buy the facts first, then deliberate on them. Your question is scanned for a contract address, URL or $TICKER; we spend on the matching evidence (honeypot simulation, sanctions screen, page content, SEC profile), hand it to one analyst that judges on what was found, not on recollection. The response lists every source and what we spent for you.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with: a 'verdict' string (the council's evidence-backed conclusion), 'evidence' array listing every source consulted with name and cost, 'panel' array with each model's responses across two rounds, 'dissent' array for minority opinions, 'confidence' integer score, 'watch_for' list of caution items, 'grounded' boolean, and a 'spend' object showing the cost cap and actual amount spent on data retrieval.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 2000,
       "description": "The question to put to the council (required, max 2000 chars). A decision question works best: include the options and the constraints."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "panel": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       }
      },
      "spend": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "cap and what we spent on your behalf."
      },
      "dissent": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       }
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "the council's answer, from the evidence."
      },
      "evidence": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": "every source consulted: name, cost, whether it returned."
      },
      "grounded": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "watch_for": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "confidence": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-council-grounded-c6416589/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from council.cyberwarex.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/council.cyberwarex.com/llms.txt)