# library.forgemesh.io – Families Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io – Families 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 257 public-domain family fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/families-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-families-fiction-shelf-ea12ffe1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aCFmzrdQgLV1A-AgMAsc-

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-families-fiction-shelf-ea12ffe1 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you give me a list of the top 20 public-domain family fiction books from the Forgemesh library shelf — I want titles I can drill into for full text?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-filtered list of public-domain family fiction titles with drill-down routes for full-text access, rather than searching by keyword across the whole corpus. It is the right choice when the user wants to browse or discover family-genre fiction specifically, not search for a particular passage or book title across all genres.

## Known failure modes

- limit exceeds max of 50 — clamp to 50 or return error
- payment not processed — x402 payment required before content is returned
- empty result if shelf index is temporarily unavailable
- limit of 0 or negative integer returns default or error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Families -- Fiction — 257 public-domain books including The porcelain mask : $b A detective story, The Corbin necklace, Glory of Youth. 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 family fiction books (default 20), each entry including the book title and a drill-down route for full-text retrieval. The shelf contains up to 257 titles including works like The Porcelain Mask, The Corbin Necklace, and Glory of Youth.

## 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": "The porcelain mask : $b A detective story",
    "author": "Chichester, John Jay",
    "book_id": 77022,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 11617
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Families -- 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-families-fiction-shelf-ea12ffe1/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)