# Bounty Preflight

> Bounty Preflight is a paid API for AI agents from bounty-preflight.tiety23.chatgpt.site, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Searches GitHub bounty opportunities and returns a risk/competition intelligence score to help developers avoid wasting time on phantom or already-claimed bounties.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://bounty-preflight.tiety23.chatgpt.site/api/v1/search
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bounty-preflight-c73f9c97
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Xm7B_1RTPrwDks5HMOW20

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 bounty-preflight-c73f9c97
```

Example prompt: Search Bounty Preflight for the top 5 Rust bounties on GitHub and tell me which ones score high enough to actually be worth working on — filter by keyword 'compiler' and language 'Rust'.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when a developer or agent needs to quickly triage open-source bounties before investing coding time — especially useful to filter out phantom bounties, low-competition opportunities, or already-claimed rewards. Prefer it over manual GitHub browsing when you need a scored, ranked shortlist rather than raw search results.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'input' parameter returns a validation error
- Keyword exceeding 80 characters is rejected
- Limit outside 1–20 range returns a schema validation error
- No matching bounties returns an empty opportunities array with count 0
- Payment not included or insufficient USDC results in a 402 Payment Required response
- Upstream GitHub data unavailability may result in stale or empty results

## How this service works

Live GitHub bounty risk and competition intelligence, payable per request in USDC on Base.

## Output

Returns a list of bounty opportunities each with a numeric score (0–100) and a verdict (e.g. 'WORK') indicating whether the bounty is worth pursuing, along with a total count of results matching the query.

## 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",
    "queryParams"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 20,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "keyword": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 80
      },
      "language": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 1,
  "opportunities": [
   {
    "score": 78,
    "verdict": "WORK"
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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