# Disruptive Concepts — Weekly Disruptive Papers Feed

> Disruptive Concepts — Weekly Disruptive Papers Feed is a paid API for AI agents from disruptive-concepts.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Returns a curated, scored feed of the most disruptive recent arXiv papers across AI, quantum, biotech, energy, and more, with plain-English abstracts and multi-factor disruptiveness scores

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://disruptive-concepts.com/api/v1/feed/disruptive.json?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/disruptive-concepts-weekly-disruptive-papers-feed-6803a3ed
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_TkaMmlQFFI-a__9pVbO7R

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 disruptive-concepts-weekly-disruptive-papers-feed-6803a3ed
```

Example prompt: Pull the top 10 most disruptive papers from this week's Disruptive Concepts feed, filtered to AI topics, and show me the title, disruptiveness score, and a plain-English summary for each.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent needs a pre-curated, scored, and ranked list of disruptive research papers with plain-English context — rather than raw arXiv search, which lacks curation and disruptiveness scoring. Ideal for science monitoring agents, research briefing workflows, or any use case where novelty, impact potential, and field heat scores are needed alongside the paper metadata. The x402 micropayment model makes it practical for automated agent pipelines at $0.05 per call.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not included or insufficient (HTTP 402): agent must attach $0.05 USDC via x402 protocol before the request is accepted
- Invalid topic string returns empty items array or mismatched results
- limit parameter out of range may return fewer items than requested or an error
- Feed may lag by up to a week if curation hasn't run yet for the current period
- Network timeout if the feed generation is slow server-side

## How this service works

We curate ~20 disruptive papers every week from arXiv in AI, quantum, biotech, energy, and more — then write plain-English explainers free for people. AI agent…

## Output

A JSON feed object containing a list of curated arXiv papers, each with the paper's ID, title, authors, abstract, PDF and abstract URLs, topic tags, week ID, rank within its week, and a detailed disruptiveness object including an overall score plus sub-scores for novelty, field heat, controversy, practicality, and impact potential, along with a human-readable rationale and scorer metadata. Also includes feed-level metadata: schema version, generation timestamp, and item count.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer"
  },
  "topic": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "schemaVersion",
  "type",
  "generatedAt",
  "count",
  "items"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "type": {
   "enum": [
    "feed"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "count": {
   "type": "integer"
  },
  "items": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
     "arxivId",
     "title",
     "topics",
     "abstract",
     "disruptiveness"
    ],
    "properties": {
     "title": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "absUrl": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "pdfUrl": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "topics": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     },
     "weekId": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "arxivId": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "authors": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     },
     "abstract": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "rankInWeek": {
      "type": "integer"
     },
     "articleSlug": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "disruptiveness": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "score",
       "factors",
       "rationale",
       "scoredAt",
       "scorerVersion"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "score": {
        "type": "number"
       },
       "factors": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "novelty": {
          "type": "number"
         },
         "fieldHeat": {
          "type": "number"
         },
         "controversy": {
          "type": "number"
         },
         "practicality": {
          "type": "number"
         },
         "impactPotential": {
          "type": "number"
         }
        }
       },
       "scoredAt": {
        "type": "string",
        "format": "date-time"
       },
       "rationale": {
        "type": "string"
       },
       "scorerVersion": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "generatedAt": {
   "type": "string",
   "format": "date-time"
  },
  "schemaVersion": {
   "type": "string",
   "example": "1.0"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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