# Automaton Paid API – Text Summarizer

> Automaton Paid API – Text Summarizer is a paid API for AI agents from automaton-paid.sharkquant.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Summarizes supplied text (up to 2,000 characters) into at most 100 words and returns the result as JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://automaton-paid.sharkquant.ai/v1/summarize?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/automaton-paid-api-text-summarizer-4af02662
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_0ogwiLLYoj5mLlTtH7k2T

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 automaton-paid-api-text-summarizer-4af02662
```

Example prompt: Can you summarize the following article into at most 100 words and give me the result as JSON? Here's the text: 'The Federal Reserve announced today that it would hold interest rates steady at 5.25%, citing mixed signals from the labor market and persistent but moderating inflation. Chair Powell emphasized patience and data-dependence, leaving the door open for future cuts if conditions warrant.'

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a faithful, concise (≤100 words) JSON-formatted summary of a short text (up to 2,000 characters) such as an article snippet, email, log entry, or support message, and you want a pay-per-call micropayment model ($0.001 USDC) rather than a subscription. Ideal for agent pipelines that need lightweight, reliable compression of discrete text chunks without managing an LLM API key.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or missing 'text' query parameter — likely returns a 400 or validation error
- Text exceeding 2,000 characters — rejected by schema validation
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance — returns HTTP 402 Payment Required
- Service unavailable or upstream model timeout — returns 5xx error
- Malformed URL encoding of the text parameter — may result in garbled input or error

## How this service works

Summarize supplied text faithfully in at most 100 words and return JSON. Use when an agent needs concise compression of a document, article, log, or message of 1-2,000 characters.

## Output

A JSON object containing a faithful summary of the input text, compressed to at most 100 words. The summary preserves key information from the original while eliminating redundancy and filler.

## 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": [
      "text"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "text": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 2000,
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Text to summarize (URL-encoded query parameter)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/automaton-paid-api-text-summarizer-4af02662/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from automaton-paid.sharkquant.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/automaton-paid.sharkquant.ai/llms.txt)