# Edge Agents – South Africa Foreign Reserves (Months of Import Cover)

> Edge Agents – South Africa 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 South Africa's foreign exchange reserves expressed as months of import cover, with provenance, confidence scoring, and contradiction flags.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-za-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-south-africa-foreign-reserves-months-of-import-cover-f0d8e8cb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_B-aqWXrZELFgiraR9S64t

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-foreign-reserves-months-of-import-cover-f0d8e8cb
```

Example prompt: Pull me the latest Edge Agents decision intelligence report on South Africa's foreign reserves — specifically how many months of import cover the country currently holds, with confidence rating and provenance.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a structured, provenance-signed macro intelligence report specifically on South Africa's foreign reserve adequacy (months of import cover) — with explicit confidence scoring, contradiction flagging, and sourcing disclaimers — rather than a raw data feed or generic news summary. It is particularly valuable for autonomous agents that need auditable, bounded decisions with traceable evidence chains for compliance or board-level reporting contexts.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or insufficient USDC — endpoint returns HTTP 402 and does not deliver report
- Data temporarily unavailable — dataStatus field may indicate incomplete coverage
- Stale data — generatedAt timestamp may lag real-world release schedule if source has not updated
- Source not yet reporting — evidence assets array may be empty with limitation noted in limitations field
- Network timeout — standard HTTP 5xx if upstream aggregation is slow

## How this service works

Latest available South Africa 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 South Africa 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 (status and confidence), an analysis block (family, intents, summary of South Africa reserve buffer findings), an evidence block (assets, policy, sources), serviceId, dataStatus, disclaimer, provenance (issuer and signed flag), generatedAt timestamp, limitations array, and schemaVersion. The report is point-in-time, signed, and clearly scoped as market research rather than 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",
    "reserves"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh South Africa Reserve Buffer 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-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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