# library.forgemesh.io — Crime and Punishment Passage Retrieval

> library.forgemesh.io — Crime and Punishment Passage Retrieval 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 Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment in response to a natural-language question, with chapter and location citations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/ask-crime-and-punishment
- 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-crime-and-punishment-passage-retrieval-4f8644a9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6WSrhpLAY8bdUdGolXIXr

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## 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-crime-and-punishment-passage-retrieval-4f8644a9 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Crime and Punishment for passages about why Raskolnikov commits the murder and return up to 8 of the most relevant excerpts with their chapter and location citations.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need direct, citeable quotations from Crime and Punishment with chapter-level provenance — not a summary or AI-generated answer. Ideal for literary research, academic citation, book club discussion, or any task requiring fidelity to the original text. Prefer over a general LLM when source accuracy and exact wording matter.

## Known failure modes

- Question too vague or unrelated to the book's content — low-relevance passages returned
- Limit parameter exceeds 15 — capped or error returned
- Payment failure via x402 — request rejected before processing
- Empty or missing question field — validation error

## How this service works

Ask a question about Crime and Punishment 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

A list of verbatim passage excerpts from Crime and Punishment ranked by relevance to the question, each annotated with its chapter and location within the book. Up to 15 passages can be returned (default 5). No AI-generated summaries or paraphrases — only direct quotes from the source text.

## 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. \"why does Raskolnikov commit the murder?\""
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 4,
  "title": "Crime and Punishment",
  "author": "Dostoyevsky, Fyodor",
  "method": "full-text retrieval — returns the most relevant passages from the book for your question; no summarization or generation",
  "book_id": 2554,
  "passages": [
   {
    "text": "…\"I want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles,\" he thought…",
    "chapter": 1,
    "location": "chapter 1, passage #22"
   }
  ],
  "question": "why does Raskolnikov commit the murder"
 }
}
```

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