# library.forgemesh.io Children's History Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io Children's History Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain children's history books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/children-s-history
- Price: $0.003/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-children-s-history-shelf-d1bd54ec
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_dCMu2DgUv9hxNb1TkxQvm

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-children-s-history-shelf-d1bd54ec -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you show me the top 30 public-domain children's history books from the ForgemMesh library shelf — things like Lewis and Clark journals or U.S. Grant memoirs — so I can pick ones to use in my curriculum?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-filtered list of public-domain children's history books specifically, rather than doing a free-text search across the entire corpus. It is ideal when you want to browse or enumerate the shelf rather than search for a specific passage or topic. Prefer this over the full-text search endpoint when you want a ranked catalog view with navigation routes rather than relevance-scored passage excerpts.

## Known failure modes

- limit exceeds 50 — server likely caps or returns an error
- payment not sent or insufficient USDC — x402 payment required error
- network or service unavailability — connection timeout or 5xx error
- empty result if shelf has no books indexed — returns empty list

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Children's History — 132 public-domain books including Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806, The Story of the Greeks. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain children's history book entries, including titles (e.g. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, The Story of the Greeks) and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of each book.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete",
    "author": "Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)",
    "book_id": 4367,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 25933
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Children's History",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-children-s-history-shelf-d1bd54ec/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from library.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)