# Edge Agents Cotton No. 2 Managed Money Positioning

> Edge Agents Cotton No. 2 Managed Money Positioning is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns current managed money positioning data for Cotton No. 2 futures, including leverage, open interest, and institutional positioning evidence with provenance and confidence scoring.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/cotton-2-managed-money-positioning
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/edge-agents-cotton-no-2-managed-money-positioning-e913f651
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3K_p5NZxCk5csfeneVPF-

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-cotton-no-2-managed-money-positioning-e913f651
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest managed money positioning report for Cotton No. 2 futures from Edge Agents — I need to see where institutional players are leveraged and what the open interest looks like right now?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need evidence-backed, sourced, and signed Cotton No. 2 managed money positioning data with explicit provenance and confidence scoring — particularly when you require point-in-time accuracy, contradiction disclosure, and auditability for institutional or agent-driven decision making. Prefer this over generic commodity data feeds when the consumer is a CFO, board, strategy team, or autonomous agent that requires defensible, cited intelligence rather than raw price data.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not fulfilled — HTTP 402 returned if USDC payment header is missing or invalid
- Data temporarily unavailable — dataStatus field may indicate incomplete coverage
- Stale data — report freshness depends on underlying source publication schedules
- Schema mismatch — if caller expects a different schema version than 2.0
- Network timeout — real-time report generation may occasionally exceed response time limits

## 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

Returns a JSON object containing: a quality status and confidence level, an analysis summary covering the agriculture family with intents like leverage, open interest, and positioning, evidence specifying the Cotton asset under a point-in-time policy with sourced data, a signed provenance record from edge-agents.ai, the generation timestamp, schema version, data status, limitations on coverage and freshness, and a disclaimer that the report 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": "agriculture",
   "intents": [
    "leverage",
    "evidence",
    "positioning",
    "open-interest",
    "commodities"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh Cotton No. 2 Managed Money Positioning findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "COTTON"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "cotton-2-managed-money-positioning",
  "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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