# Edge Agents – Hong Kong CPI Inflation Intelligence

> Edge Agents – Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong SAR consumer price inflation analysis with provenance, confidence scoring, and source citations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-hk-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-hong-kong-cpi-inflation-intelligence-b18f6457
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_0fM6eCllUJyduq12IKWcH

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-hong-kong-cpi-inflation-intelligence-b18f6457
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Hong Kong consumer price inflation report from Edge Agents — I need confidence level, a summary of findings, and the provenance details so I can cite it in a board briefing.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need sourced, provenance-signed Hong Kong CPI inflation intelligence with explicit confidence scoring and stated limitations — particularly for board-level, CFO, or autonomous-agent decision workflows that require auditability and cannot rely on unverified or inferred data. Prefer over general web search when traceable provenance and structured macro analysis output are required.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or x402 micropayment flow incomplete — endpoint returns 402 Payment Required
- Network or upstream data unavailability — dataStatus may be 'incomplete' rather than 'complete'
- Stale data — generatedAt timestamp may lag real-world CPI release schedules
- Schema mismatch if client expects schemaVersion < 2.0
- Empty evidence assets array if no live report assets are available at call time

## How this service works

Latest available Hong Kong SAR, 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 Hong Kong SAR, 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 (e.g. 'strong'/'high'), an analysis block with macro family classification, intent tags, and a written summary of HK CPI findings, an evidence block listing assets and sourcing policy, metadata fields (serviceId, dataStatus, schemaVersion, generatedAt), a signed provenance object from edge-agents.ai, a disclaimer noting the research is not investment advice, and a limitations array describing coverage and freshness caveats.

## 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 Hong Kong SAR, China Consumer Price Inflation findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "CHN",
    "HKG"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "macro-hk-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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