# library.forgemesh.io – Ask Grimms' Fairy Tales

> library.forgemesh.io – Ask Grimms' Fairy Tales is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Retrieves the most relevant verbatim passages from Grimms' Fairy Tales in response to a natural-language question, with chapter and location citations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/ask-grimms-fairy-tales
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-ask-grimms-fairy-tales-41a0f97f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RBLLjxVd6d0T1ic9B1qDn

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-grimms-fairy-tales-41a0f97f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Grimms' Fairy Tales for passages about what happens to Cinderella's sisters — return up to 8 relevant excerpts with their chapter and location citations.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need exact verbatim text and citations from Grimms' Fairy Tales specifically, rather than a generated summary or paraphrase. Prefer it over a general web search when you need authoritative, source-anchored quotes from the original collection for research, fact-checking, or literary analysis.

## Known failure modes

- Question too vague or off-topic returns low-relevance passages
- Requesting more than 15 passages is capped or returns an error
- Network or payment failure returns a 402 or connection error
- Very specific questions about minor tales may return few or no matching passages

## How this service works

Ask a question about Grimms' Fairy Tales 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 up to the requested number (default 5, max 15) of verbatim text passages from Grimms' Fairy Tales that best match the question, each accompanied by chapter identification and location metadata within the book.

## 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 Cinderella's sisters?\""
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 2,
  "title": "Grimms' Fairy Tales",
  "author": "Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863",
  "method": "full-text retrieval — returns the most relevant passages from the book for your question; no summarization or generation",
  "book_id": 2591,
  "passages": [
   {
    "text": "…the two sisters came to [Cinderella] to flatter her and share her good fortune…",
    "chapter": 21,
    "location": "chapter 21, passage #5"
   }
  ],
  "question": "what happens to Cinderella's sisters"
 }
}
```

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