# ForgeMesh Library — LB Curated Shelf (Education & Philosophy)

> ForgeMesh Library — LB Curated Shelf (Education & Philosophy) is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Returns a ranked list of up to 166 public-domain books focused on education and philosophy, including nature study, democracy, and practical education titles, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/lb
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-lb-curated-shelf-education-philosophy-06fc6693
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nM2xj3jUle7-XlZyzRJKJ

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-lb-curated-shelf-education-philosophy-06fc6693 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you show me up to 30 public-domain books from the education and philosophy shelf on ForgeMesh Library — I'm especially interested in classics like Democracy and Education and teachers' manuals?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain books specifically in the education and philosophy domain (LB shelf), including teachers' manuals, democracy, and practical education texts. Prefer this over the full-text search endpoint when you want to browse the collection rather than search for specific passages. Prefer over other shelf endpoints when the subject matter is education, nature study, or philosophy of education.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter exceeds 50 — may return an error or be capped at the maximum
- Payment of 0.003 USDC not provided or x402 protocol not supported by client — request fails with payment required error
- Empty result if the shelf index is unavailable or the service is down
- Limit set to 0 or negative value — may return empty list or validation error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: LB — 166 public-domain books including Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education. 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 166 public-domain books from the LB (education and philosophy) shelf, including titles such as Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study, Democracy and Education, and A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education, along with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval of each book.

## 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": "Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study",
    "author": "Ontario. Department of Education",
    "book_id": 26139,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 7819
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "LB",
  "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-lb-curated-shelf-education-philosophy-06fc6693/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)