# ForgeMesh Library – Didactic Fiction Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Didactic Fiction 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 15 curated public-domain didactic fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/didactic-fiction
- 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-didactic-fiction-shelf-5b63f003
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yKA0iE32Ar_w-kjM-2txQ

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-didactic-fiction-shelf-5b63f003 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full list of didactic fiction books from the ForgeMesh library — I'm looking for moral classics like The Picture of Dorian Gray or The Brothers Karamazov, give me up to 15 results?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked list of public-domain didactic fiction titles with links for full-text access, without any authentication or API key. Prefer this over a general web search when you want a reliable, stable shelf of moral/philosophical classics like Tolstoy or Wilde, and when you need drill-down routes for follow-up full-text retrieval from the same provider.

## Known failure modes

- limit parameter exceeds max of 50 — server may reject or clamp
- payment failure via x402 protocol — call returns 402 if USDC payment not processed
- service unavailable — corpus temporarily offline
- invalid limit type (non-integer) causes schema validation error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Didactic fiction — 15 public-domain books including The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Brothers Karamazov, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 15 (or requested limit) public-domain didactic fiction books, including titles such as The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Brothers Karamazov, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, along with drill-down routes that can be used for full-text retrieval of each work.

## 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 Picture of Dorian Gray",
    "author": "Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900",
    "book_id": 174,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 16363
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Didactic fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 860,
   "indexed": 860
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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