# Open-Source Maintainer Activity Research

> Open-Source Maintainer Activity Research is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-18).

Searches the live web for public open-source project activity and maintainer health signals using a focused query, tailored for research teams.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-web-maintainer-health-research?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-18
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/open-source-maintainer-activity-research-ceb658fd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pRmfZzXdjfz_hKbs23TUK

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 open-source-maintainer-activity-research-ceb658fd -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you research the maintainer activity and project health signals for the FastAPI Python library — look for GitHub release frequency, issue response times, and any signs of low activity? Return up to 5 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need live, web-sourced signals about open-source maintainer health and project activity — especially for research teams conducting dependency audits, vendor risk assessments, or OSS landscape analysis. It is preferable over static registry data when you need recent signals like issue response times, release cadence, or maintainer engagement trends that may not appear in package metadata alone.

## Known failure modes

- Overly broad query returns irrelevant or generic web results not specific to the target project
- Project name ambiguity causes results for the wrong repository
- No recent web-indexed signals available for obscure or very new projects
- max_results set too low may miss key signals
- Rate limiting or payment failure at the x402 layer returns a 402 error

## How this service works

Open-source maintainer activity research for Research teams: Find public project activity and maintainer signals. Uses live web search; provide query to focus the search.

## Output

Returns a set of web search result entries (up to the specified max_results count) containing live signals about open-source project maintainer activity, such as GitHub release cadence, issue response patterns, contributor health indicators, and related public project page data.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "GitHub release activity issue response maintainer project Research teams",
   "description": "Optional focused search query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/open-source-maintainer-activity-research-ceb658fd/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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