# Edge Agents South Africa CPI Inflation Intelligence

> Edge Agents South Africa 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, provenance-signed South Africa Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation analysis with confidence scoring, contradictions, and verification for business decision-makers and AI agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-za-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-south-africa-cpi-inflation-intelligence-dbf5bab2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hz9-sPyxW7J-45-9F5NJD

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-south-africa-cpi-inflation-intelligence-dbf5bab2
```

Example prompt: Pull me the latest South Africa consumer price inflation analysis from Edge Agents — I need the evidence summary, confidence level, and provenance for our board risk review.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a signed, provenance-tracked South Africa CPI inflation brief with explicit confidence scoring and contradiction disclosure — particularly for board-level, regulatory, or audit-trail use cases where evidence sourcing matters. Prefer this over raw data feeds when you need a bounded, human-readable decision intelligence output rather than raw statistics, and when your workflow requires verification metadata and limitations disclosure.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not completed: endpoint returns HTTP 402 if USDC payment not submitted via x402 protocol
- Stale or unavailable source data: response may indicate incomplete evidence with limitations noted in the report
- Invalid or missing parameters: malformed request may return an error or empty evidence assets
- Service downtime: endpoint may be temporarily unavailable, returning a 5xx error
- Data not yet refreshed: generatedAt timestamp may lag behind the most recent official CPI release

## How this service works

Latest available South Africa 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 South Africa 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

Returns a JSON object containing: a quality object with status and confidence level, an analysis object with inflation family, intents, and narrative summary, an evidence block with assets and sourcing policy, a signed provenance object (issuer URL, signed flag), a generatedAt ISO timestamp, a dataStatus field, schema version, and a limitations array disclosing coverage gaps. The response is point-in-time and clearly labelled as 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": "macro",
   "intents": [
    "evidence",
    "inflation"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh South Africa Consumer Price Inflation findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "ZAF"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "macro-za-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"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/edge-agents-south-africa-cpi-inflation-intelligence-dbf5bab2/health.json
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