# Agent Kiosk Academic Search

> Agent Kiosk Academic Search is a paid API for AI agents from agent-kiosk.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Searches academic literature and returns relevant scientific papers for a given research topic or query.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agent-kiosk.vercel.app/v1/academic-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-kiosk-academic-search-94268b84
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_lEF4hqvApDk_u4RvaT2mG

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-kiosk-academic-search-94268b84 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search for academic papers on autonomous AI agents and return the top 8 most relevant results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to retrieve peer-reviewed or scholarly academic papers on a specific research topic at low per-call cost ($0.02 USDC). It is well-suited for literature review automation, research discovery pipelines, or any workflow requiring access to scientific publications without a full academic database subscription. Prefer it over general web search when the user explicitly needs academic or scientific sources rather than general web content.

## Known failure modes

- Query too vague or ambiguous resulting in low-relevance papers
- Limit parameter out of range (must be 1-15) causing validation error
- No papers found for highly niche or very recent topics
- Payment failure via x402/Base USDC causing 402 response
- Service timeout on complex or broad academic queries
- API returns ok:false with error details in data field

## How this service works

Peer-reviewed scientific paper & preprint search (OpenAlex + arXiv) returning citations, reconstructed abstracts, and direct Open-Access PDF links.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with an 'ok' boolean and a 'data' object containing academic paper results matching the query, including paper titles, authors, abstracts, and other metadata depending on the underlying data source. Also includes a 'payment_mode' field indicating how the x402 micropayment was processed.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "number"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Scientific topic or paper query"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 5,
  "query": "autonomous AI agents",
  "papers": [
   {
    "title": "Autonomous LLM Agents in Decentralized Markets",
    "citations": 142
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-kiosk-academic-search-94268b84/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agent-kiosk.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agent-kiosk.vercel.app/llms.txt)