# Canon Leaders Lookup

> Canon Leaders Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from canon.orbonomy.xyz, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns current political leaders or heads of state for a given country

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://canon.orbonomy.xyz/api/leaders
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/canon-leaders-lookup-86f1af79
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_YE688A8XWaUmJlT_6nIrI

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-86f1af79 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Who are the current leaders and heads of state for Germany? Use Canon to look that up.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, verified lookup of the current political leaders or heads of state for a specific country — especially in fact-checking workflows, research pipelines, or when grounding AI-generated claims about world leadership. Prefer over general web search when structured, reliable, pay-per-call data is needed.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid country name returns a validation error
- Unknown or unrecognized country string may yield empty or null results
- Payment failure (USDC on Base not settled) returns 402
- Service downtime or upstream data unavailability returns 5xx

## How this service works

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

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a success boolean and presumably details about the current leaders or heads of state for the specified country, sourced from Canon's fact-checking and academic research data layer.

## 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

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