# Edge Agents US Unemployment Pulse

> Edge Agents US Unemployment Pulse 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 analysis of current US unemployment conditions including macro labour market signals, contradictions, and confidence levels.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/us-unemployment-pulse
- 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-unemployment-pulse-e0ec3774
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NGvDIxu2j83lizAdSqPbR

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-unemployment-pulse-e0ec3774
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest US unemployment pulse from Edge Agents and give me a summary of current labour market conditions, including the confidence level and any flagged contradictions in the evidence?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a fast, structured, provenance-signed snapshot of US unemployment conditions with explicit confidence levels and contradiction flags — particularly for decision-support workflows where auditability and evidence sourcing matter. Prefer this over generic data APIs when your use case requires a bounded, signed report suitable for board-level or autonomous-agent consumption, rather than raw BLS data streams or unstructured news summaries.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or x402 payment header malformed — 402 response with payment requirements
- Service temporarily unavailable or upstream data source delayed — 503 or degraded data status in response
- Rate limiting if too many calls made in short succession — 429 response
- Data freshness issue where underlying unemployment source has not yet updated — dataStatus field may indicate incomplete
- Invalid or missing parameters — 400 response

## 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 rating), an analysis block (macro family, labour intents, and a plain-language summary), an evidence block (assets, policy, and sources), provenance (issuer URL and signature flag), generation timestamp, data completeness status, schema version, limitations list, and a standard disclaimer that the output is 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",
    "labour"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh US Unemployment Pulse findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "USA"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "us-unemployment-pulse",
  "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

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