# ForgeMesh Library — BR Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library — BR Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain books from the 'BR' curated shelf (229 titles including Augustine's City of God, Confessions, and Fox's Book of Martyrs), with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/br
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-br-shelf-11c7ff21
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tc-L7mToud-mB6gPyXq2e

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-library-br-shelf-11c7ff21 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full list of public-domain religious and theology books from the BR shelf on ForgeMesh Library — give me up to 30 titles?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically want to browse or enumerate the curated BR (religion/Christianity) shelf of 229 public-domain books on ForgeMesh Library — particularly for theological, patristic, or Reformation-era texts. Prefer a full-text search endpoint instead if you need to find specific passages or are unsure which shelf the content belongs to.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter exceeds 50 — service may reject or cap the response
- Payment not processed (x402 protocol failure) — endpoint returns 402 with payment details
- Shelf temporarily unavailable — returns an error response with no book list
- Malformed request body — service returns a validation error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: BR — 229 public-domain books including The City of God, Volume I, The Confessions of St. Augustine, Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of public-domain book records from the BR shelf (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), each including the book title and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of individual works.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "The City of God, Volume I",
    "author": "Augustine, of Hippo, Saint",
    "book_id": 45304,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 53828
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "BR",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-br-shelf-11c7ff21/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from library.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)