# ForgeMesh Topic Fact Summary

> ForgeMesh Topic Fact Summary is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a structured summary (description, lead paragraph, thumbnail, source URL) for any known topic from a community-maintained knowledge base.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/topic-fact-summary
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-topic-fact-summary-8dc46009
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_r6Prax5-3g0-Pb1SJ0mRM

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-topic-fact-summary-8dc46009 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a structured summary for Alan Turing — short description, lead paragraph, thumbnail, and source URL?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs quick, grounded, structured background on a person, place, or concept — especially when a concise lead paragraph and thumbnail are needed alongside a description. Prefer over raw web search when structured, encyclopedia-style output is required without hallucination risk.

## Known failure modes

- Topic title not found in knowledge base — returns empty or error response
- Ambiguous title matching multiple topics — may return unexpected article
- Network or payment authorization failure — no result returned
- Topic exists but has no thumbnail — thumbnail field may be null or missing

## How this service works

Pull a structured summary for any known topic — short description, lead paragraph, thumbnail, and source URL — from a continuously updated, community-maintained knowledge base. Accepts titles with spaces or underscores. Built for research agents and chatbots that need quick, grounded background on a person, place, or concept.

## Output

A structured object containing a short description of the topic, a lead paragraph of background information, a thumbnail image URL, and a link to the source article in the knowledge base.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "title": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Article title, e.g. Alan Turing"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "title": "Alan Turing",
   "extract": "Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician...",
   "description": "English computer scientist (1912–1954)"
  },
  "attribution": "Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0"
 }
}
```

## More

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