# ForgeMesh Library – Teaching & Education Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Teaching & Education 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 books in the Teaching & Education category, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/teaching-education
- 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-teaching-education-shelf-6b0bdf4f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tA6ywRZwrFqPEsujFVlC0

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-teaching-education-shelf-6b0bdf4f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you give me a list of the top 20 public-domain books on teaching and education from the ForgeMesh library? I want titles and links so I can dig into the full texts.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain books specifically in the Teaching & Education domain, and want reliable drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. It is ideal over a general web search when you want pre-vetted, license-free classic texts — particularly works like Dewey's 'Democracy and Education' or 'How We Think' — without needing an API key. Prefer it over sibling shelves (poetry, science, history) when the user's focus is specifically on pedagogy, educational philosophy, or teaching methodology.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid limit value (e.g. limit > 50 or negative) may return an error or be clamped
- Payment of $0.003 USDC required per call; failure to provide payment results in 402 response
- If the corpus index is temporarily unavailable, the endpoint may return an empty list or server error
- Network timeout if the ranked list generation takes too long

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Teaching & Education — 1124 public-domain books including A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School, Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes. 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 50 public-domain books in the Teaching & Education category, including titles such as 'Democracy and Education' by John Dewey and 'How We Think'. Each entry includes metadata and drill-down routes that allow the caller to fetch the full text of individual books.

## 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": "A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School",
    "author": "Beecher, Catharine Esther",
    "book_id": 21829,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 13551
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Teaching & Education",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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