# Zero-Bloat A2A Live Web Search & Tech News Grounding

> Zero-Bloat A2A Live Web Search & Tech News Grounding is a paid API for AI agents from alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-02).

Executes live Google News RSS and HackerNews Algolia searches and returns clean, token-pruned, ad-free results for grounding AI agent responses.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/v1/grounded-citations?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-051e76da
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_F6G3QrlaeLZm4DEW3iwwG

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 alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-051e76da -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search for the latest news and HackerNews discussions about 'Anthropic Claude 4 release' and give me clean, cited results I can use to ground my answer — no ads or filler.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs real-time, citation-quality web and tech news grounding without the overhead of full web scraping. It is especially valuable for developer-focused queries where HackerNews community sentiment matters, and when token efficiency is critical since results are pre-pruned. Prefer this over general web search tools when you need combined Google News + HackerNews coverage in a single call with clean output ready for agent consumption.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or too-short query returns validation error
- Upstream Google News RSS or HackerNews Algolia unavailability causes partial or failed results
- Rate limiting or payment failure (HTTP 402) if USDC micropayment not processed
- No results found for highly niche or misspelled query terms
- Timeout if upstream search APIs are slow to respond

## How this service works

Executes live Google News RSS + HackerNews Algolia search queries and returns clean, token-pruned results with zero ad bloat. (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/v1/grounded-citations)

## Output

A structured JSON response containing clean, token-pruned search result objects aggregated from Google News RSS and HackerNews Algolia, including article titles, URLs, publication timestamps, and relevant snippets — formatted for direct citation use by AI agents with no advertisements or extraneous markup.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "query"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "Search query for live news, technical articles, and web results"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-051e76da/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)