# library.forgemesh.io — Conduct of Life: Juvenile Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io — Conduct of Life: Juvenile Fiction Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 1,019 public-domain juvenile fiction books focused on conduct of life, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/conduct-of-life-juvenile-fiction
- Price: $0.003/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-conduct-of-life-juvenile-fiction-shelf-44299232
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pf9ZH3jhOaGH1lLlEUpAb

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-conduct-of-life-juvenile-fiction-shelf-44299232 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull me a list of 30 public-domain juvenile fiction books about conduct of life from the library.forgemesh.io curated shelf, including any drill-down links for reading the full texts?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-filtered shelf of public-domain juvenile fiction specifically themed around conduct of life and moral character, without needing a search query. Prefer over the full-text search endpoint when you want to browse the entire category rather than find a specific passage, and when no API key or license is needed.

## Known failure modes

- limit parameter exceeds 50 — server likely caps or returns an error
- payment not included or insufficient USDC — 402 Payment Required response
- no books match internal filters — empty list returned
- network timeout on the library host — connection error
- invalid request body format — 400 Bad Request

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction — 1019 public-domain books including Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, Fifty-Two Stories For Girls, The strange house : $b or, A moment's mistake. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of public-domain juvenile fiction books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50) categorized under 'Conduct of life — Juvenile fiction', with drill-down route URLs enabling full-text retrieval for each title. The collection contains up to 1,019 books.

## 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": "Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey",
    "author": "Lockwood, Ingersoll",
    "book_id": 57426,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 27005
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction",
  "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-conduct-of-life-juvenile-fiction-shelf-44299232/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)