# library.forgemesh.io – Ask Meditations

> library.forgemesh.io – Ask Meditations 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 passages from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in response to a natural-language question, with location citations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/ask-meditations
- 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-meditations-d2cc50c6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QE5uimfbaBIyjNxrBpHpQ

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-meditations-d2cc50c6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Marcus Aurelius's Meditations for passages about how to deal with difficult people and return the top 5 most relevant excerpts with their book and section references.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need verbatim, cited passages from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations specifically — not a generated summary or paraphrase. Ideal when the user wants primary source text with precise location references for research, quotation, or study. Prefer over general LLM recall when citation accuracy and fidelity to the original text matter.

## Known failure modes

- Question string missing — returns validation error
- Limit exceeds maximum of 15 — may return error or be clamped
- Question too vague or unrelated to Meditations content — returns low-relevance or empty passages
- Payment of $0.01 USDC not provided — returns 402 Payment Required
- Network timeout if service is unavailable

## How this service works

Ask a question about Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and get back the most relevant passages from the text itself, with location citations. Retrieval only — full-text search, not a generated summary or answer. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 15 relevant passages from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, each accompanied by a location citation (book and section number) indicating where the passage appears in the text. No generated summaries — raw source text only.

## 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 does it say about death?\""
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 3,
  "title": "Meditations",
  "author": "Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180",
  "method": "full-text retrieval — returns the most relevant passages from the book for your question; no summarization or generation",
  "book_id": 2680,
  "passages": [
   {
    "text": "…Thou hast embarked, thou hast made the voyage, thou art come to shore; get out…",
    "chapter": 2,
    "location": "chapter 2, passage #8"
   }
  ],
  "question": "what does it say about death"
 }
}
```

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