# Edge Agents – Canada Unemployment Macro Intelligence

> Edge Agents – Canada Unemployment Macro 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 2026-09-16).

Returns evidence-backed, sourced analysis of Canada's current unemployment situation with confidence ratings, provenance, and contradiction flags for business decision-makers and autonomous agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-ca-unemployment
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/edge-agents-canada-unemployment-macro-intelligence-63109f84
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NkLhKCDcutA5ZSCj7KOxi

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-canada-unemployment-macro-intelligence-63109f84
```

Example prompt: Pull me the latest Canada unemployment intelligence from Edge Agents — I need the evidence summary, confidence level, and provenance for a CFO briefing on Canadian labour market conditions.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need sourced, confidence-rated, provenance-signed Canadian unemployment intelligence rather than raw statistical feeds. It is preferable when your workflow requires bounded decisions with contradiction flags and stated limitations — typical for board briefings, autonomous agent pipelines, or compliance-sensitive strategy work. It is not a raw Statistics Canada data feed; it is curated macro decision intelligence with explainability built in.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not processed via x402 protocol — returns 402 Payment Required
- Service temporarily unavailable or upstream data source not fresh — may return degraded quality status
- Empty evidence assets array if no live report data is currently ingested
- Malformed request schema may return validation error
- Rate limiting if called excessively in short window

## How this service works

Latest available Canada unemployment plus a comparable annual history from the World Bank World Development Indicators API, with source, lag and revision caveats. Purpose: Give an autonomous agent a normalized, directly sourced Canada unemployment series without forcing it to understand World Bank indicator codes or response shapes. 24-hour freshness target; missing evidence is reported explicitly rather than invented.

## Output

A JSON object containing: a quality block (status and confidence level), an analysis block (macro family classification, intent tags like 'evidence' and 'labour', and a plain-language summary of current Canadian unemployment findings), an evidence block (assets, point-in-time policy, and source attribution), data completeness status, a signed provenance object from edge-agents.ai, a generation timestamp, a disclaimer noting this is market research not investment advice, stated limitations on coverage and freshness, and the schema version (2.0).

## 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",
    "labour"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh Canada Unemployment findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "CAN"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "macro-ca-unemployment",
  "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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