# ForgeMesh Library – Religion & Spirituality Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Religion & Spirituality Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain religion and spirituality books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/religion-spirituality
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-religion-spirituality-shelf-ac75eb83
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CvtNh2O22VxzuHB4pITam

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-religion-spirituality-shelf-ac75eb83 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the religion and spirituality shelf on ForgeMesh Library and show me the top 30 books available?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a browsable, ranked catalog of public-domain religion and spirituality texts without any licensing or API key overhead. It is ideal for discovery use cases — finding what books are available — before drilling into full-text retrieval. Prefer this over general web search when you want structured, curated results from a consistent corpus of classic religious and spiritual works.

## Known failure modes

- Requesting a limit above 50 may return an error or be capped at 50
- Network or payment failures (x402 micropayment not processed) result in a 402 response with no data
- If the shelf index is temporarily unavailable, a 5xx error may be returned
- Malformed request body may return a 400 validation error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Religion/Spirituality — 3658 public-domain books including The City of God, Volume I, The Confessions of St. Augustine, Autobiography of a Yogi. 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 religion and spirituality books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), each entry including the book title, author, and a drill-down route URL for full-text retrieval. The list includes works such as St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries, The Prophet, and Daemonologie.

## 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": "Religion/Spirituality",
  "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-religion-spirituality-shelf-ac75eb83/health.json
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