# ForgeMesh Federal Register Search

> ForgeMesh Federal Register Search is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches the US Federal Register for government rules, proposed rules, executive orders, and notices matching a keyword, returning the 10 newest matching documents with metadata and links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/regulation-search
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-federal-register-search-4a7f6997
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_upqPSPpu83dvUFLSwuitc

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-federal-register-search-4a7f6997 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the Federal Register for the newest government rules and notices about stablecoins and give me the titles, agencies, dates, and links to the full documents.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to search or monitor US federal government publications — regulations, proposed rules, executive orders, and notices — by keyword. It provides structured metadata (agency, date, abstract, link) without requiring a Federal Register API key. Prefer this over raw web scraping or general web search when you need consistently structured, dated, authoritative regulatory documents from the official US government record.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results array when no documents match the search term
- Very broad queries may return unrelated documents due to keyword matching
- Results limited to 10 per call with no built-in pagination parameter
- Stale index if Federal Register has not been crawled recently
- Payment failure (402) if USDC balance is insufficient

## How this service works

Search the daily journal of the US government: rules, proposed rules, executive orders, and notices matching a search term, newest first, with agencies, dates, abstracts, and links to full text. Ten documents per call; empty query returns the newest publications across all agencies.

## Output

A JSON object containing a total count of matching documents and an array of up to 10 results, each with document type (Rule, Notice, etc.), title, abstract, list of agencies, publication date, and a direct URL to the full text on federalregister.gov. Attribution note confirming public domain sourcing is included.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "q": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "search term, e.g. 'stablecoin' — empty returns newest documents"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "count": 1546,
   "results": [
    {
     "type": "Notice",
     "title": "Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Guidance",
     "abstract": "Request for comment on updated AI risk management guidance...",
     "agencies": [
      {
       "name": "Commerce Department"
      }
     ],
     "html_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/18/example",
     "publication_date": "2026-08-18"
    }
   ]
  },
  "attribution": "Federal Register (public domain)"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-federal-register-search-4a7f6997/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)