# Edge Agents China Foreign Reserves – Months of Import Cover

> Edge Agents China Foreign Reserves – Months of Import Cover 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 decision intelligence on China's foreign reserve adequacy measured in months of import cover, with provenance, confidence scoring, and contradiction flags.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-cn-reserves-months-imports
- 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-foreign-reserves-months-of-import-cover-a0464bb8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bLOw7eGkWzk0xlz7pkJfc

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-foreign-reserves-months-of-import-cover-a0464bb8
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Edge Agents report on China's foreign reserves measured in months of import cover — I need the evidence summary, confidence level, and any flagged contradictions for a board risk briefing.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a structured, evidence-backed, provenance-signed assessment of China's foreign reserve adequacy specifically expressed as months of import cover — a standard IMF/BIS metric for external liquidity risk. It is preferable to raw data feeds when you need bounded conclusions with confidence scores, contradiction flags, and audit-ready provenance for board-level or regulatory reporting. It is particularly suited for autonomous agents that must make or support decisions without human data-wrangling steps.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not completed via x402 protocol — returns 402 with payment instructions
- Service temporarily unavailable — upstream macro data source not fresh
- Incomplete evidence — limitations array will enumerate gaps in source coverage
- Rate limiting if many calls made in rapid succession
- Invalid request format — malformed query parameters return 400

## How this service works

Latest available China reserve buffer 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 reserve buffer 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 (e.g. 'strong') and confidence level; an analysis block with family ('macro'), intents, and a natural-language summary of China reserve buffer findings; an evidence block with source assets and data policy; provenance metadata including issuer URL and signature flag; a generatedAt timestamp; schemaVersion; dataStatus; and disclaimer and limitations arrays. The report reflects point-in-time sourced data, never inferred values.

## 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",
    "reserves"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh China Reserve Buffer 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-reserves-months-imports",
  "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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