# Edge Agents Australia Consumer Price Inflation Intelligence

> Edge Agents Australia Consumer Price Inflation 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, provenance-signed macro analysis of Australia's Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, including findings, contradictions, and confidence ratings for business decision-making.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-au-inflation
- 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/edge-agents-australia-consumer-price-inflation-intelligence-c2c4a4fe
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4e78ZObkJ4yve7rOuNVS3

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 edge-agents-australia-consumer-price-inflation-intelligence-c2c4a4fe
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest Australian Consumer Price Inflation intelligence from Edge Agents — I need the evidence summary, confidence level, and provenance so I can include it in our board risk briefing?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a provenance-signed, evidence-bounded inflation report specifically for Australia (CPI / macro), with explicit confidence ratings and contradiction disclosure — suitable for autonomous agents, CFOs, boards, or strategy teams who need defensible, sourced macro intelligence rather than raw data feeds or general news. Prefer this over generic data APIs when audit trail, signed provenance, and structured decision-readiness (with limitations stated) are required.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received (HTTP 402): x402 micropayment of $0.01 USDC required before data is returned
- Data unavailable or stale: the report may note limited source freshness in the limitations field
- Incomplete evidence: the evidence.assets array may be empty if no live sources are currently reportable
- Invalid request format: malformed input schema may result in an error response
- Service downtime: pay.edge-agents.ai may be temporarily unreachable

## 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

A structured JSON object containing: an overall quality status and confidence level (e.g. 'strong'/'high'), a macro analysis summary with family classification and inflation intents, an evidence block with sourced assets and point-in-time policy, a signed provenance record from edge-agents.ai, a generatedAt timestamp, data completeness status, schema version, and a disclaimer clarifying this is general market research, not investment advice.

## 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": "macro",
   "intents": [
    "evidence",
    "inflation"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh Australia Consumer Price Inflation findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "AUS"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "macro-au-inflation",
  "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"
 }
}
```

## More

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