# Canon – Country Leaders Lookup

> Canon – Country Leaders Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from v0-canon.orbonomy.xyz, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns current political leaders for a given country, supporting fact-checking and research use cases.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://v0-canon.orbonomy.xyz/api/leaders
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/canon-country-leaders-lookup-b86179b2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NThUkSsTDz-X2901Va1jv

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 canon-country-leaders-lookup-b86179b2 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Who are the current political leaders of France? Use Canon to look it up.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs to verify or retrieve current political leadership for a specific country, especially in fact-checking, research, or geopolitical analysis workflows. Prefer this over general web search when a structured, paid, reliable data response is required.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid 'country' field returns a validation error
- Unknown or misspelled country name may return empty results or an error
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC on Base) results in 402 response
- Service may return outdated leader data if not recently refreshed

## How this service works

Fact-checking and academic research for AI agents. Verify claims, search papers, explore journals. USDC on Base.

## Output

A JSON object with a success boolean and presumably leadership data for the specified country, such as head of state, head of government, or other key political figures.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "country"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "country": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "success": {
   "type": "boolean"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/canon-country-leaders-lookup-b86179b2/health.json
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