# Chinese-English Professional Translation (api.craigmbrown.com)

> Chinese-English Professional Translation (api.craigmbrown.com) is a paid API for AI agents from api.craigmbrown.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Translates text or documents between Simplified Chinese and English with auto-direction detection, formatting preservation, and compliance guardrails.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.craigmbrown.com/v1/services/translation.zh-en
- 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/chinese-english-professional-translation-api-craigmbrown-com-5c47ff9a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_k4Co-6gCrmpznpboiFADf

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 chinese-english-professional-translation-api-craigmbrown-com-5c47ff9a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Please translate this Chinese supplier agreement into English — it's a formal legal document, so preserve all names, numbers, and formatting exactly as they appear in the original.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need professional-grade Simplified Chinese↔English translation with automatic direction detection, strict preservation of names, numbers, and formatting, and compliance assurance (PIPL/offshore guardrails). Ideal for legal, financial, or business documents where trust provenance and tamper-evidence (BlindOracle content hash) matter. Prefer this over generic MT APIs when auditability, formatting fidelity, and regulatory compliance are requirements.

## Known failure modes

- Input contains data about mainland China data subjects — refused due to PIPL/offshore compliance guardrails
- Empty or missing 'prompt' field — returns validation error
- Text in an unsupported language (neither Chinese nor English) — may return error or low-quality output
- Extremely long documents may exceed per-call limits — returns truncation or payload error
- Network or provider unavailability — returns 5xx error

## How this service works

Professional Simplified-Chinese<->English translation of documents and text. Auto-detects direction, preserves formatting, names, and numbers. Offshore/PIPL-guarded (refuses mainland-CN data subjects). BO trust envelope (content hash + scan + provenance) on every deliverable.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the translated text ('translation'), the auto-detected source language ('detected_source'), and the target language label ('target'). Every deliverable is wrapped in a BlindOracle trust envelope including content hash, provenance metadata, and scan results.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "prompt": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "schema": {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
   "target": {
    "type": "string"
   },
   "translation": {
    "type": "string"
   },
   "detected_source": {
    "type": "string"
   }
  }
 },
 "example": {
  "detected_source": "..."
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/chinese-english-professional-translation-api-craigmbrown-com-5c47ff9a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.craigmbrown.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.craigmbrown.com/llms.txt)