# Open-Source Maintainer Activity Research for Procurement

> Open-Source Maintainer Activity Research for Procurement is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-16).

Searches the live web for open-source project activity signals and maintainer health metrics to support procurement decisions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-web-maintainer-health-procurement?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/open-source-maintainer-activity-research-for-procurement-3de876d6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Yg7J-xmXubOgLyjcVGMAQ

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-for-procurement-3de876d6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you research the maintainer activity and project health signals for the open-source library 'FastAPI' to help us decide whether to adopt it — give me up to 8 results focused on GitHub release activity, issue response times, and maintainer engagement?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when a procurement or vendor evaluation workflow requires quick, live web-sourced signals about open-source project health without needing to authenticate with GitHub's API directly. Ideal for agents that need lightweight maintainer due diligence at low cost ($0.01/call) and don't require structured API data. Prefer over GitHub API calls when authentication isn't available or when you want broader web coverage beyond GitHub alone.

## Known failure modes

- Vague or overly broad query returns irrelevant results — narrow the query to a specific project or maintainer
- Project has low web presence, resulting in sparse or no meaningful results
- max_results set too low may miss important signals — increase toward 10 for broader coverage
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.01 per-call fee
- Live web search may return outdated cached pages if the project's activity changed very recently

## How this service works

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

## Output

Returns a list of web search results (up to the requested max_results count) surfacing public signals about the target open-source project, including maintainer activity indicators, GitHub release cadence, issue response patterns, and community health metrics relevant to procurement decision-making.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "GitHub release activity issue response maintainer project Procurement",
   "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-for-procurement-3de876d6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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