# Edge Agents – South Africa Trade Openness Intelligence

> Edge Agents – South Africa Trade Openness 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 macro intelligence on South Africa's trade openness, including findings, provenance, contradictions, and confidence ratings.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-za-trade-openness
- 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-trade-openness-intelligence-d716982a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AkTcPglRzZWsKMWZb0f02

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-trade-openness-intelligence-d716982a
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest South Africa trade openness report from Edge Agents — I need the confidence rating, key findings, and any contradictions flagged, with full source provenance so I can cite it in our strategy deck.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, provenance-signed macro intelligence specifically on South Africa's trade openness — especially when you require explicit confidence ratings, contradiction flagging, and citable sourcing for strategy, board, or investment contexts. Prefer it over raw data feeds or generic LLM synthesis when auditability and bounded decision support matter.

## Known failure modes

- 402 Payment Required if USDC micropayment header is missing or invalid
- Empty or stale evidence assets if underlying data sources are temporarily unavailable
- Low confidence rating returned when contradictory or sparse source data exists
- Service may return dataStatus other than 'complete' if coverage gaps exist, noted in limitations array

## 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

A JSON object containing: a quality block (status and confidence level), an analysis block (family, intents, and narrative summary of South Africa trade openness findings), an evidence block (assets, policy snapshot, and sources), provenance metadata (issuer URL and signed flag), a generatedAt timestamp, a schemaVersion, dataStatus, and a disclaimer noting 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": "macro",
   "intents": [
    "evidence",
    "trade"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh South Africa Trade Openness 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-trade-openness",
  "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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