# Edge Agents US Real Interest Rate Intelligence

> Edge Agents US Real Interest Rate 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 analysis of the current US real interest rate with provenance, confidence scoring, and contradiction flags for decision-making.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-us-real-interest-rate
- 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-us-real-interest-rate-intelligence-b93db200
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ShLryp1ZwKtycjvjXzdOz

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-us-real-interest-rate-intelligence-b93db200
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest US real interest rate analysis from Edge Agents — I need the evidence quality score, data provenance, and a summary I can present to the CFO.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a signed, provenance-tracked, evidence-bounded analysis of the US real interest rate for high-stakes decisions — particularly when your workflow requires traceable sourcing, contradiction flags, or a structured confidence score rather than a raw data feed. Prefer this over generic financial data APIs when your use case is decision intelligence for executives, boards, or autonomous agents that must justify their macro assumptions with verifiable evidence.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received (x402 payment required before data is returned)
- Stale or incomplete macro data — limitations array in response will enumerate coverage gaps
- Network timeout if upstream macro data sources are temporarily unavailable
- Invalid or missing payment header returns 402 with payment instructions
- Response may return empty evidence assets array if no fresh data is available at query time

## How this service works

Latest available United States real interest rate 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 United States real interest rate 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 structured JSON report containing: quality status and confidence level (e.g. 'strong'/'high'), an analysis summary with macro family and intent tags, evidence assets with point-in-time policy, provenance with issuer URL and digital signature flag, data completeness status, schema version, generation timestamp, and a disclaimer clarifying this is 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",
    "rates"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh United States Real Interest Rate findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "USA"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "macro-us-real-interest-rate",
  "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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