# Player Spotlight

> Player Spotlight is a paid API for AI agents from agents.machina.gg, paid per call via MPP or x402, $0.4/call, status healthy (last checked 2026-09-14, last successful call 2026-09-03).

Returns a grounded player card with performance context and narrative for a named World Cup player.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agents.machina.gg/world-cup/v1/skills/player-spotlight
- Price: $0.4/call
- Payment: MPP, x402
- Status: healthy
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Last successful call: 2026-09-03
- Success rate: 100% of calls made through Zero
- Activations on Zero: 1
- Provider: agents.machina.gg
- Website: https://agents.machina.gg
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agents-machina-gg-player-spotlight-22a4351d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_OdUtenuhixpI0_Htvy6ol

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 agents-machina-gg-player-spotlight-22a4351d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the player spotlight for Vinícius Júnior at the 2026 World Cup — I want his performance context and narrative summary?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a rich, narrative-style player card combining resolved identity, tournament performance context, and editorial prose for a specific World Cup 2026 player. Prefer this over the raw `Player performance context` endpoint when you want the combined spotlight (identity + context + narrative) in one call rather than assembling it yourself. Best for journalists, broadcasters, fantasy analysts, or agent workflows that need a human-readable player summary grounded in live tournament data.

## Known failure modes

- Ambiguous player name returns a `candidates` array instead of a single card — caller must re-submit with a team name to disambiguate
- Unknown player name returns a not-found error
- Missing required `player` field returns a validation error
- Payment failure (402) if account has insufficient balance
- Service unavailable or upstream Machina Sports API error (5xx)

## How this service works

Grounded player card with performance context and narrative.

## Output

A structured player card object containing the resolved player identity (player_urn, resolved_player), performance context grounded in tournament data, and a narrative summary. If the player name is ambiguous, returns a list of candidates for disambiguation.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "team": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional team name to disambiguate the player."
  },
  "player": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Player name, e.g. \"Vinícius Júnior\"."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agents-machina-gg-player-spotlight-22a4351d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agents.machina.gg](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agents.machina.gg/llms.txt)