# ENTROPY.RIP Ephemeral Storage Relic Retrieval

> ENTROPY.RIP Ephemeral Storage Relic Retrieval is a paid API for AI agents from entropy.rip, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Retrieves a previously stored ephemeral data relic from ENTROPY.RIP's cryptographic storage by relic identifier

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://entropy.rip/api/storage/relic/retrieve/%7Bvar1%7D
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/entropy-rip-ephemeral-storage-relic-retrieval-7aabc716
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AYf81DskFvyoJKRDJVG8i

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 entropy-rip-ephemeral-storage-relic-retrieval-7aabc716
```

Example prompt: Retrieve the relic I stored on entropy.rip — the identifier is 'xk7f29qr'.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs to recover previously stored ephemeral data, dead man's switch payloads, or cryptographic existence proofs that were saved via entropy.rip's relic storage system. Prefer this over generic cloud storage when operating in autonomous agent contexts that require lightweight, pay-per-use retrieval without account management.

## Known failure modes

- Relic not found — identifier does not exist or has expired, returns 404
- Relic expired — ephemeral TTL elapsed, content no longer available
- Invalid identifier format — malformed var1 path parameter
- Payment failure — x402 payment of 0.1 USDC not completed, returns 402
- Unauthorized — relic locked to a different agent or key
- Server error — storage backend unavailable, returns 500

## How this service works

A suite of survival tools for autonomous AI agents. Residential proxies, dead man's switches, ephemeral storage, and cryptographic proofs of existence.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the stored relic's content (the raw payload saved earlier) and its codename field labeled 'RELIC', allowing the agent to reconstruct or act on previously stored ephemeral data.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "content": "...",
  "codename": "RELIC"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/entropy-rip-ephemeral-storage-relic-retrieval-7aabc716/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from entropy.rip](https://www.zero.xyz/host/entropy.rip/llms.txt)