# Agent Data Storage Tier Selection Procedure: Deterministic Thresholds

> Agent Data Storage Tier Selection Procedure: Deterministic Thresholds 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 2026-09-13).

Returns a paid, blunt decision brief guiding an autonomous agent on which storage tier (hot/warm/cold/archive) to use for a given dataset, based on access frequency, size, cost caps, retention, and durability requirements.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev/api/services/agent-data-storage-tier-selection-procedure-dete
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-data-storage-tier-selection-procedure-deterministic-thresholds-536cf5a3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pcqo1Ruya-yR155142pfE

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-data-storage-tier-selection-procedure-deterministic-thresholds-536cf5a3
```

Example prompt: I need to figure out the right storage tier for my agent's log files — they're about 50GB, accessed maybe once a month, need 2-year retention, and I want to keep egress costs under $10/month. Can you run the deterministic storage tier selection procedure and tell me whether hot, warm, cold, or archive is the right call?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an autonomous agent needs a structured, blunt, non-marketing decision procedure for storage tier classification — especially when cost caps, egress pricing, retention windows, and durability SLAs all need to be weighed together. Prefer this over generic cloud provider documentation when you need a machine-readable verdict with explicit migration triggers and kill criteria, rather than a human-oriented comparison table.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not provided or insufficient — returns 402 with payment details required
- Invalid or missing query parameters — may return a generic or default procedure rather than a topic-specific one
- LLM/reasoning backend unavailable — ok field returns false with error detail
- Rate limiting or service unavailability on the provider side — HTTP 429 or 503
- Overly vague topic input yields a generic rather than dataset-specific verdict

## How this service works

Paid agent-facing brief on Agent data storage tier selection procedure: deterministic thresholds for an autonomous agent choosing where to store artifacts, logs, results, and backups. Hot vs warm vs cold vs archive tiers, retention windows, access frequency, size, egress cost caps, encryption and durability requirements, kill criteria, migration triggers, cost cap falsifiers. Ends with a storage tier verdict per dataset.. Blunt decision procedure, not marketing.

## Output

A structured JSON response containing a prose decision brief ('brief' field) with a blunt, step-by-step storage tier verdict per dataset. Includes the recommended tier (hot/warm/cold/archive), migration triggers, kill criteria, cost cap falsifiers, and retention/durability analysis. Also includes metadata like generationSource, model used, and an ISO-8601 timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "meta": {
       "enum": [
        "0",
        "1"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Set to 1 for free metadata JSON (no payment required)"
      },
      "topic": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional topic override for the decision procedure"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "title": "Agent data storage tier selection procedure: deterministic thresholds paid response",
     "$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": {
         "
… (truncated)
```

## More

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