# Edge Agents China CPI Inflation Intelligence

> Edge Agents China CPI 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, sourced analysis of China's Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) with confidence ratings, provenance, and bounded decision support for business leaders and AI agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-cn-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-china-cpi-inflation-intelligence-69db3cab
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CUAN3HNTB8TkSMBuDG7mQ

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-china-cpi-inflation-intelligence-69db3cab
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest China Consumer Price Inflation analysis from Edge Agents — I need the evidence summary, confidence level, and source provenance so I can include it in our macro risk briefing for the CFO.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, sourced, and bounded intelligence on China's consumer price inflation specifically — with explicit confidence scores, provenance signing, and stated limitations — rather than a raw data feed or generic news scrape. Ideal for AI agents and business decision-makers who require defensible, evidence-backed macro analysis with audit trails, not just a number. Best suited for decision pipelines that need to cite sources and acknowledge contradictions.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not processed or x402 protocol failure — endpoint returns 402 requiring USDC payment
- Data temporarily unavailable — dataStatus field may indicate incomplete coverage
- Stale or low-confidence data — confidence field may return 'low' or quality status 'weak'
- Service outage — standard HTTP 5xx errors possible
- Schema mismatch if caller expects a different schemaVersion than returned

## How this service works

Latest available China consumer price inflation 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 China consumer price inflation 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 with status and confidence level, an analysis summary with intents and macro family classification, an evidence block with assets and sourcing policy, provenance with issuer and signing status, a dataStatus field, generatedAt timestamp, schemaVersion, limitations list, and a standard disclaimer that the output is general market research and 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 China Consumer Price Inflation findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "CHN"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "macro-cn-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"
 }
}
```

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