# ArgonautWorks Bounty Signal API

> ArgonautWorks Bounty Signal API is a paid API for AI agents from argonaut-bounty-signal.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $1.99/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a pre-screened report of GitHub bounty viability signals — including issue state, repo trust, payout evidence, age, claims, and competing PRs — for a pinned edition date.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://argonaut-bounty-signal.vercel.app/api/v1/report
- Price: $1.99/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/argonautworks-bounty-signal-api-147b5b97
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jP3y0Q5kg7lIjCnheDRy_

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 argonautworks-bounty-signal-api-147b5b97
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest ArgonautWorks Bounty Signal report for the 2026-08-04 edition — I want to see which GitHub bounties are actually viable: still open, from trustworthy repos, with real payout evidence, and no competing PRs already in flight.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent or developer needs a pre-screened, multi-signal viability assessment of GitHub bounties before committing development effort — particularly when filtering for real payout evidence, open issue state, low competition, and trustworthy repositories at scale (1,000+ listings screened per edition). Prefer it over manual GitHub search when you need consolidated trust signals in one call, or over raw GitHub API queries when you lack the logic to assess payout credibility and competing PR risk yourself.

## Known failure modes

- Incorrect or unsupported edition date returns no matching report
- Payment failure (402) if USDC payment is not correctly attached
- Stale data if the pinned edition has not been refreshed recently
- Report may not reflect real-time GitHub state if fetched long after edition date
- Network timeout on Vercel cold-start if endpoint has been dormant

## How this service works

Canonical GitHub bounty viability checks for agents: live issue state, repository trust, payout evidence, age, claims, assignments, and competing pull requests.

## Output

A markdown-formatted report summarizing up to ~1,291 screened GitHub bounty listings for the specified edition date, including live issue state (open/closed), repository trust signals, evidence of actual payout history, issue age, number of existing claims, assignment status, and any competing pull requests already submitted — giving an agent or developer a viability snapshot to prioritize effort.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "edition"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "edition": {
       "type": "string",
       "const": "2026-08-04",
       "description": "Pinned report edition to download."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "body": "# Agent Bounty Reality Check — 1,291 listings screened",
  "format": "text/markdown",
  "edition": "2026-08-04"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/argonautworks-bounty-signal-api-147b5b97/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from argonaut-bounty-signal.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/argonaut-bounty-signal.vercel.app/llms.txt)