# AnswerPool Daily Rulemaking Digest

> AnswerPool Daily Rulemaking Digest is a paid API for AI agents from answerpool.io, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns all federal rules and proposed rules published on a given date, sorted by significance, with deadline flags and countdown days, optionally filtered to one agency.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://answerpool.io/v1/regs/digest
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/answerpool-daily-rulemaking-digest-4b39776c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_20a51rtN8FZUbVwc7sKFq

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 answerpool-daily-rulemaking-digest-4b39776c
```

Example prompt: Pull today's full federal rulemaking digest from AnswerPool — show me up to 50 documents sorted by significance, flagged with any upcoming deadlines, and filter it to just the EPA.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a complete, pre-triaged snapshot of all rulemaking activity for a single day — especially when building daily briefing agents, compliance dashboards, or deadline trackers. It is preferable to a cursor-based incremental feed when you want a full day's view rather than new-since-last-check updates, and better than full-text search when you want all documents rather than keyword-matched subsets.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid date format returns a 400 error
- Agency slug not matching known pattern returns empty result set or 400
- Limit outside 1–100 range returns validation error
- Future dates may return zero documents if none yet published
- Requesting a very old date may return incomplete historical data

## How this service works

AnswerPool turns SEC EDGAR, the Federal Register, USAspending, NIH, BLS and OpenAlex into structured JSON answers that AI agents and developers fetch in one call. 69 endpoints free, no account; derived analyses $0.02–$0.05 per call by card credits or USDC (x402). MCP server, full provenance.

## Output

A JSON object containing an as_of timestamp, total matching count, and an array of rule documents. Each document includes title, type (Rule or Proposed Rule), action description, publishing agencies, publication and effective dates, comment close date, significance flag, abstract, docket IDs, CFR references, topics, flags (e.g. 'significant', 'effective_soon'), and integer day-counts until comment close and effective date.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "title": "DigestIn",
     "properties": {
      "date": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string",
         "maxLength": 40
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ],
       "title": "Date",
       "default": null,
       "description": "ISO publication date; default today (UTC)."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "title": "Limit",
       "default": 50,
       "maximum": 100,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Maximum documents from that day, significant ones listed first."
      },
      "agency": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string",
         "pattern": "^[a-z0-9-]+$",
         "maxLength": 120
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ],
       "title": "Agency",
       "default": null,
       "description": "Federal Register agency slug from /v1/regs/agencies, e.g. securities-and-exchange-commission; an unknown slug fails the call. Omit for all."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "as_of": "2026-09-02T14:00:00Z",
  "count": 2,
  "documents": [
   {
    "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-12341",
    "type": "Rule",
    "flags": [
     "significant",
     "effective_soon",
     "final_rule_pending_effect"
    ],
    "title": "Cybersecurity Risk Management Rule",
    "action": "Final rule.",
    "topics": [
     "Securities"
    ],
    "abstract": "Requires registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents.",
    "agencies": [
     "Securities and Exchange Commission"
    ],
    "docket_ids": [
     "SEC-2026-001"
    ],
    "significant": true,
    "effective_on": "2026-09-12",
    "cfr_references": [
     "17 CFR 240"
    ],
    "document_number": "2026-12341",
    "publication_date": "2026-08-30",
    "comments_close_on": null,
    "days_to_effective": 10,
    "days_to_comment_close": null,
    "regulation_id_numbers": [
     "3235-AN00"
    ]
   },
   {
    "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-12343",
    "type": "Rule",
    "flags": [],
    "title": "Technical Corrections",
    "action": "Final rule; correction.",
    "topics": [],
    "abstract": null,
    "agencies": [
     "Securities and Exchange Commission"
    ],
    "docket_ids": [],
    "significant": null,
    "effective_on": "2026-08-28",
    "cfr_references": [],
    "document_number": "2026-12343",
    "publication_date": "2026-08-30",
    "comments_close_on": null,
    "days_to_effective": -5,
    "days_to_comment_close": null,
    "regulation_id_numbers": []
   }
  ],
  "total_matching": 3
 }
}
```

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