# OFAC SDN Sanctions Brief

> OFAC SDN Sanctions Brief is a paid API for AI agents from oracles-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns an LLM-generated narrative digest of recent OFAC SDN sanctions actions, summarizing who was designated, under which programs, and what a compliance team should re-screen.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://oracles-production.up.railway.app/v1/ofac-sdn/brief
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ofac-sdn-sanctions-brief-3eefc774
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8K7nillWPTkJIH-M1q0pN

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 ofac-sdn-sanctions-brief-3eefc774
```

Example prompt: Give me an LLM-written OFAC sanctions brief for everything that happened since January 1, 2025 — I need to know who was designated, under which programs, and what our compliance team should re-screen.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a human-readable, narrative summary of OFAC SDN activity rather than raw data. Ideal for compliance teams that want a ready-to-use briefing document rather than structured records. Prefer this over raw Federal Register or SDN data endpoints when the consumer is a human compliance officer who needs a concise re-screening guide. Best for periodic compliance digests (weekly, monthly) rather than real-time transaction screening.

## Known failure modes

- No changes in the requested window returns a brief indicating no new designations with basedOnChanges: 0
- Invalid date-time format for 'since' parameter returns a 400 error
- Payment not provided or insufficient (x402 payment required) returns a 402 error
- Upstream OFAC data unavailable may result in a 503 or stale brief
- LLM generation failure may fall back to 'template' generatedBy value

## How this service works

An LLM-written digest of the sanctions actions in the window: who was designated, under which programs, and what a compliance team should re-screen.

## Output

A JSON object containing: 'brief' (a narrative LLM-written paragraph summarizing recent SDN designations, programs involved, and re-screening recommendations), 'generatedBy' (either 'llm' or 'template'), and 'basedOnChanges' (integer count of SDN changes the brief is based on). The brief is human-readable and ready to share with a compliance team.

## 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"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "since": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date-time",
       "description": "Window start (default: last 30 days)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "brief": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "generatedBy": {
       "enum": [
        "llm",
        "template"
       ],
       "type": "string"
      },
      "basedOnChanges": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/ofac-sdn-sanctions-brief-3eefc774/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from oracles-production.up.railway.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/oracles-production.up.railway.app/llms.txt)