# Cotton No. 2 Open Interest Pressure Intelligence

> Cotton No. 2 Open Interest Pressure Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns evidence-backed open interest pressure analysis for Cotton No. 2 futures, including leverage signals, positioning data, and sourced market intelligence with provenance.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/cotton-2-open-interest-pressure
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cotton-no-2-open-interest-pressure-intelligence-2c5d7679
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_c2Jh2jrM5CEE-9eyyH53h

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 cotton-no-2-open-interest-pressure-intelligence-2c5d7679
```

Example prompt: Pull me the latest open interest pressure report for Cotton No. 2 futures from Edge Agents — I want to see positioning signals, confidence level, and the sourced evidence behind the call.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a sourced, provenance-signed, point-in-time intelligence report specifically on Cotton No. 2 futures open interest and positioning pressure — particularly when you need contradictions flagged, confidence scored, and evidence traceable to actual live data rather than inferred estimates. Prefer this over generic financial data APIs when decision accountability and audit trail matter (e.g. board reporting, autonomous agent workflows, or regulated investment processes).

## Known failure modes

- Payment not processed or USDC balance insufficient — 402 Payment Required returned
- Service temporarily unavailable for Cotton No. 2 data — 503 or error status
- Data status incomplete if upstream cotton market data sources are stale or unavailable
- Provenance signature verification failure if report integrity is compromised
- Empty or low-confidence report if open interest data is thin or contradictory

## How this service works

Edge Agents provides evidence-backed macro, market and decision intelligence for AI agents, individual leaders and investors, businesses and government teams requiring consulting, procurement and decision support. Machine services are purchasable per request over x402 on 5 settlement rails (Base/USDC, XRPL/RLUSD, Solana/USDC, Arbitrum/USDC and Polygon/USDC).

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a quality status and confidence rating, an analysis block covering the agriculture family with intents like leverage, forecast and positioning, evidence assets listing COTTON with a point-in-time policy, a generated-at timestamp, signed provenance from edge-agents.ai, a disclaimer that this is general market research (not investment advice), schema version, and a limitations statement about coverage and source freshness.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "quality": {
   "status": "strong",
   "confidence": "high"
  },
  "analysis": {
   "family": "agriculture",
   "intents": [
    "leverage",
    "evidence",
    "forecast",
    "labour",
    "positioning",
    "open-interest",
    "commodities"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh Cotton No. 2 Open Interest Pressure findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "COTTON"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "cotton-2-open-interest-pressure",
  "dataStatus": "complete",
  "disclaimer": "General, impersonal market research; not investment advice or a buy, sell or hold recommendation.",
  "provenance": {
   "issuer": "https://edge-agents.ai",
   "signed": true
  },
  "generatedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "limitations": [
   "Coverage, source freshness and unavailable evidence are stated in every paid report."
  ],
  "schemaVersion": "2.0"
 }
}
```

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