# ForgeMesh Discovery Economics Tenets

> ForgeMesh Discovery Economics Tenets is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns 10 structured tenets explaining ForgeMesh's discovery-economics philosophy: why free surfaces stay rich, what buyers pay for, how upstream risk is tiered, and how settlement drives Bazaar visibility.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/discovery-economics
- 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/forgemesh-discovery-economics-tenets-863fbaaa
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_f5SZKgJ5K8zlL8GVOCjFq

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 forgemesh-discovery-economics-tenets-863fbaaa -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up ForgeMesh's discovery-economics tenets — I want to understand their philosophy on why free surfaces stay rich, what buyers are paying for, and how settlement affects Bazaar visibility?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to understand or explain ForgeMesh's economic model for agent discovery — specifically the structured tenet-by-tenet breakdown of why and how the Bazaar marketplace operates. Prefer this over general documentation or web searches when you need machine-readable, structured JSON output of the philosophy.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not included or invalid x402 header — returns 402 Payment Required
- Malformed POST body — returns 400 Bad Request
- Service unavailable — returns 503

## How this service works

The economics behind ForgeMesh's approach to agent discovery: 10 structured tenets on why free surfaces stay rich, what buyers are actually paying for (aggregation and freshness, not secrets), how upstream risk is tiered, and how settlement drives Bazaar visibility. Structured JSON — id, tenet, detail per entry.

## Output

A JSON array of 10 objects, each with an id, a tenet title, and a detail field explaining one principle of ForgeMesh's discovery-economics model — covering free surface richness, buyer value (aggregation and freshness), upstream risk tiering, and how payment settlement drives Bazaar visibility.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "title": "ForgeMesh theory of agent-commerce discovery",
  "tenets": [
   {
    "id": "rich-free-surfaces",
    "tenet": "Free discovery surfaces stay rich.",
    "detail": "llms.txt, openapi.json, and .well-known/x402.json expose every route, price, and schema at no cost, so crawlers and humans can index a service fully without ever paying."
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-discovery-economics-tenets-863fbaaa/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)