# Canon Leaders Lookup

> Canon Leaders Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from aury.orbonomy.xyz, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://aury.orbonomy.xyz/api/leaders?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/canon-leaders-lookup-665f0989
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_PnWlGV15FnwiETsfPA9gr

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-leaders-lookup-665f0989 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Who is the current head of government or political leader of France? Look it up for me.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to verify or look up the current political leader of a specific country, especially within a fact-checking or research workflow that already uses the Canon service on aury.orbonomy.xyz. Best for agents needing quick, on-demand leadership data per country with micropayment billing.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or misspelled country name returns an error or empty result
- Country field missing causes a 400 validation error
- Payment not fulfilled causes a 402 Payment Required response
- Service unavailable or upstream data stale returns a 500 error

## 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 flag and presumably leadership data for the requested country, such as the current head of state or government.

## 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-leaders-lookup-665f0989/health.json
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