# ForgeMesh Utility Grid — Daily Featured API Pick

> ForgeMesh Utility Grid — Daily Featured API Pick is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns today's (or a specified UTC date's) featured API route from the ForgeMesh x402 utility fleet, including its schema, description, and ecosystem metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/daily
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-utility-grid-daily-featured-api-pick-4d0d4db0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_xWclN5qej0Q5dGSUccyOf

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-utility-grid-daily-featured-api-pick-4d0d4db0 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the ForgeMesh Utility Grid's featured API pick for today — show me its route, price, description, and input schema so I know what it does.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you want to discover or sample the ForgeMesh Utility Grid fleet in a rotating, curated way — particularly useful for agent onboarding, capability exploration, or surfacing a fresh API each day. Prefer this over the full fleet catalog when you want a single highlighted route with worked examples rather than all 500+ routes at once.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid date format (not YYYY-MM-DD) may return a validation error
- Dates outside the available catalog window may return no featured pick
- Payment not settled correctly via x402 flow returns HTTP 402 with payment challenge
- Network or upstream outage may return 5xx error

## How this service works

The Daily 402: one featured x402 endpoint per UTC day, rotated deterministically through every paid route in the 11-service ForgeMesh fleet (500+ routes). Returns the pick's route, price, input schema, example output, and exactly how to pay it. Stable URL, rotating payload — the same date always returns the same pick, and an optional date (YYYY-MM-DD) previews any day. The cheapest daily way to discover a new agent capability.

## Output

A JSON object containing the featured UTC date, the highlighted route's hostname, HTTP method, path, price, category, product name, description, input schema, and an example output. Also includes the fleet pool size, rotation logic explanation, a try-it instruction, a link to the full product sheet, and the catalog generation timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "date": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional: preview a specific UTC day's pick, format YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today."
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "date": "2026-07-18",
  "try_it": "POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/recent-earthquakes — the first bare call returns HTTP 402 with exact USDC payment requirements (Base mainnet); settle with any x402 client and retry to get the data.",
  "featured": {
   "host": "x402.forgemesh.io",
   "price": "$0.005",
   "route": "/recent-earthquakes",
   "method": "POST",
   "category": "utility-grid",
   "product_id": "utility-grid",
   "description": "Recent earthquakes API: latest global quakes above your magnitude threshold from a real-time seismic feed…",
   "input_schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
     "min_magnitude": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Minimum magnitude, default 4"
     }
    }
   },
   "product_name": "ForgeMesh Utility Grid",
   "example_output": {
    "data": {
     "type": "FeatureCollection"
    },
    "attribution": "U.S. Geological Survey (public domain)"
   }
  },
  "rotation": "deterministic by UTC date — same date always returns the same pick; every route in the fleet gets its day",
  "pool_size": 547,
  "full_product_sheet": "POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/fleet-product-detail ($0.05) with {\"product\":\"utility-grid\"} for every route, schema, and worked example on ForgeMesh Utility Grid.",
  "catalog_generated_at": "2026-07-18T16:21:11.232Z"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-utility-grid-daily-featured-api-pick-4d0d4db0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)