# ForgeMesh Federal Register Watch

> ForgeMesh Federal Register Watch 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 and returns US federal regulatory documents — proposed rules, final rules, executive orders, and agency notices — matching a given topic, sorted newest first.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/federal-register-watch
- 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-watch-358c1922
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Hi_f0yvzEwOpASqIQ_on5

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-watch-358c1922 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the Federal Register for the latest proposed rules and notices about stablecoins — I want to see what regulations are coming down the pipeline, with titles, agencies, dates, and links.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need early-warning regulatory intelligence — specifically to find proposed rules, final rules, executive orders, or agency notices from the US Federal Register by topic. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, authoritative regulatory data with publication dates, agency attribution, and direct document links. Ideal for compliance monitoring, policy research, and regulatory tracking workflows where freshness and official sourcing matter.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results array if no documents match the search term
- Stale results up to 30 minutes old due to caching
- Federal Register API downtime causing upstream errors
- Very broad queries returning thousands of results with limited relevance ranking
- Missing abstracts for some older document types

## How this service works

New US federal regulations and official notices matching any topic: proposed rules, final rules, executive orders, and agency notices with title, agency, publication date, abstract, and document links — newest first. Empty query returns the latest documents government-wide. The earliest public signal that a rule affecting an industry is coming. Cached 30 minutes.

## Output

A JSON object containing a count of total matching documents and an array of results, each with document type, title, abstract, list of publishing agencies, HTML URL to the full document on federalregister.gov, and publication date — sorted newest first. Results are cached for 30 minutes.

## 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

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