# Federal Awards Brief – LLM Digest

> Federal Awards Brief – LLM Digest is a paid API for AI agents from oracles-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns an LLM-written narrative digest summarizing the largest and most notable federal government contract/grant awards within a specified time window

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://oracles-production.up.railway.app/v1/awards/brief
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/federal-awards-brief-llm-digest-b482b6d1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yMaa6lx1bLM-dozyXTPpX

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 federal-awards-brief-llm-digest-b482b6d1
```

Example prompt: Give me an LLM-written digest of the largest and most notable federal awards since January 1, 2025.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a concise, human-readable narrative summary of notable federal awards rather than raw structured data. Ideal for briefings, newsletters, or monitoring government procurement activity without parsing bulk contract datasets. Choose this over raw federal data APIs when you want editorial prioritization — the LLM highlights only the most significant awards.

## Known failure modes

- No awards found in the specified window returns an empty or minimal brief
- Invalid or future 'since' datetime results in a 400 or empty data error
- LLM generation failure may fall back to template-based output (generatedBy: template)
- Payment failure (x402) blocks the response entirely
- Very large time windows may time out or return truncated results

## How this service works

An LLM-written digest of the largest / most notable federal awards in the window.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing a 'brief' field with a narrative LLM-written summary of the most significant federal contract and grant awards in the window, a 'generatedBy' field indicating whether an LLM or template produced it, and a 'basedOnChanges' integer showing how many award records were analyzed.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "since": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date-time",
       "description": "Window start (default: last 30 days)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "brief": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "generatedBy": {
       "enum": [
        "llm",
        "template"
       ],
       "type": "string"
      },
      "basedOnChanges": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/federal-awards-brief-llm-digest-b482b6d1/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from oracles-production.up.railway.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/oracles-production.up.railway.app/llms.txt)