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Author Provenance Decision
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Author Provenance Decision is a paid API for AI agents from agentreadiness.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).
Passively fetches public evidence from a target URL and evaluates whether the site's content can be attributed to a verifiable, credible author
Price / call$0.001
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Author provenance decision fetches current public evidence from the supplied target and evaluates the documented criterion. It returns the observation, threshold, verdict, exact evidence source, limitations and a mode-specific action. The check is passive: no login attempt, payload injection, exploit, purchase, form submission or load test is performed.
Output
Returns a structured verdict object containing the observation (what was found), the evaluation threshold, a pass/fail verdict, the exact evidence source URL, known limitations of the check, and a recommended action — all without performing any login, form submission, exploit, or load test on the target.
Example use cases
Verify news site author credibility
“Check https://techblog.example.com for author provenance — I need to know if the site has publicly verifiable authors before I cite it in a report.”
Due diligence on a content partner
“Before we syndicate content from https://partnersite.example.com, can you run an author provenance check to see if they have documented, credible authorship that passes a standard threshold?”
Monitor authorship transparency over time
“Compare author provenance on https://healthnews.example.com against the baseline I got last month and tell me if anything changed in how they attribute their content.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://agentreadiness.halowerk.com/v1/author-provenance-decision?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a passive, read-only signal on whether a public website has credible, verifiable author attribution — ideal for content trust pipelines, agent-readiness audits, due diligence workflows, or monitoring authorship transparency over time. Prefer it over generic web scraping when you need a structured verdict with threshold, evidence source, and recommended action rather than raw HTML.
Side effects
- Target URL is unreachable or returns non-200 status, resulting in an inability to fetch evidence
- Target requires authentication or blocks crawlers, leading to incomplete or no observation
- No author attribution signals found on the page, resulting in a fail verdict with limited evidence
- Malformed or too-short target URL rejected by input validation
- Rate limiting or network errors on the target side causing partial evidence collection
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| target | string | Public HTTP(S) URL or domain to inspect. A bare domain is normalized to HTTPS. |
| context | object | Optional non-secret correlation labels returned unchanged only in the request lifecycle. |
| baseline | — | Optional baseline returned by a previous snapshot call. |
| compare_url | string | Optional public comparison URL. Used by change and monitoring services. |
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