# library.forgemesh.io – Ask About The Picture of Dorian Gray

> library.forgemesh.io – Ask About The Picture of Dorian Gray is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Retrieves the most relevant verbatim passages from The Picture of Dorian Gray in response to a natural-language question, with chapter and location citations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/ask-picture-of-dorian-gray
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-ask-about-the-picture-of-dorian-gray-e13ae011
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nbKJ2u9XJy84QO3ETKhUr

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 library-forgemesh-io-ask-about-the-picture-of-dorian-gray-e13ae011 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search The Picture of Dorian Gray for passages about what happens to the portrait over time — give me up to 8 of the most relevant excerpts with their chapter citations.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need verbatim, cited passages from The Picture of Dorian Gray specifically — not a summary or AI-generated answer. Ideal for literary research, quote sourcing, book club prep, or any task requiring exact text with provenance. Prefer over general LLM knowledge when citation accuracy and original wording matter.

## Known failure modes

- Question is too vague or abstract to map to specific passages — fewer or lower-quality results returned
- Limit parameter exceeds 15 — likely clamped or rejected
- Payment not provided or invalid — 402 response blocking access
- Question about a different book or author — results may be empty or irrelevant
- Network timeout for unusually complex queries

## How this service works

Ask a question about The Picture of Dorian Gray and get back the most relevant passages from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only — full-text search, not a generated summary or answer. No license, no API key required.

## Output

Returns a ranked list of verbatim text passages from The Picture of Dorian Gray that are most relevant to the question, each accompanied by a chapter identifier and location citation within the book. No AI-generated summaries or paraphrases — only original text from the novel.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max passages (default 5, max 15)"
  },
  "question": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Your question about the book, e.g. \"what happens to the portrait?\""
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 3,
  "title": "The Picture of Dorian Gray",
  "author": "Wilde, Oscar",
  "method": "full-text retrieval — returns the most relevant passages from the book for your question; no summarization or generation",
  "book_id": 174,
  "passages": [
   {
    "text": "…the [portrait], with all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty…",
    "chapter": 20,
    "location": "chapter 20, passage #160"
   }
  ],
  "question": "what happens to the portrait"
 }
}
```

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