# Maha Strategies – The Imagined Life Section Retrieval

> Maha Strategies – The Imagined Life Section Retrieval is a paid API for AI agents from www.mahastrategies.com, paid per call via x402, $0.025/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves a single named section of the book 'The Imagined Life' as structured, machine-readable Markdown with edition metadata, byte/word counts, SHA-256 hash, and a deterministic receipt.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/books/the-imagined-life/section
- Price: $0.025/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/maha-strategies-the-imagined-life-section-retrieval-5f3fc64f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ICttHbTRkqdbMZnHk3ZwC

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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 maha-strategies-the-imagined-life-section-retrieval-5f3fc64f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Fetch the 'why-we-dream' section of The Imagined Life as structured markdown and give me the SHA-256 hash and word count along with it.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent needs a specific, named section of 'The Imagined Life' with machine-verifiable integrity guarantees (SHA-256 hash, byte/word counts, deterministic receipt) rather than raw web scraping or unstructured text. It is especially suited for pipelines requiring auditable, structured content delivery with edition tracking. Prefer it over general web access when reproducibility and content commitment matter.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid sectionId enum value returns a validation error
- Missing required sectionId field returns a 400 bad request
- Payment failure via x402 protocol prevents content delivery
- Network timeout if the service is temporarily unavailable
- Malformed request body (wrong bodyType) causes rejection

## How this service works

Read one supported section of The Imagined Life as machine-readable licensed prose with edition and section identity. For agents researching this specific book. Not the complete edition, a general book search or permission to redistribute the work.

## Output

A structured JSON object containing the Markdown text of the requested section, ordered edition metadata, byte and word counts, a SHA-256 content hash for integrity verification, boundary information, and a deterministic receipt. The response also includes the offerId and schema version for the delivery contract.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "sectionId"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "sectionId": {
       "enum": [
        "introduction",
        "what-happens-when-you-sleep",
        "why-we-dream",
        "the-hardest-thing-to-study",
        "two-engines-one-trick",
        "the-dreamer-at-the-controls",
        "when-the-machinery-fails",
        "are-dreams-computation",
        "the-quantum-question",
        "the-machines-that-dream",
        "the-waking-dream",
        "steering-the-simulator",
        "future-of-dreaming",
        "retraining-protocols"
       ],
       "type": "string"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "version",
      "offerId",
      "book",
      "section",
      "boundaries",
      "receipt"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "book": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "offerId": {
       "type": "string",
       "const": "book-section-the-imagined-life"
      },
      "receipt": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "section": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "version": {
       "type": "string",
       "const": "maha-machine-book-section/0.1"
      },
      "boundaries": {
       "type": "object"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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