# Open-Source Maintainer Research for Software Builders

> Open-Source Maintainer Research for Software Builders is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Searches current web sources to surface open-source maintainer signals—release activity, governance, and project health—focused on software builders.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-web-maintainer-signals-builders?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/open-source-maintainer-research-for-software-builders-7c89cc75
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DOPlkk0Sm1Qp26aghErDh

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-research-for-software-builders-7c89cc75 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you research the open-source maintainer signals for projects in the React ecosystem—look up recent release activity, governance, and project health from current web sources and give me up to 8 results?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need current, web-sourced intelligence on open-source maintainer activity, release cadence, or project governance specifically for software builders—especially when evaluating dependencies, auditing project health before adoption, or researching the maintainer landscape in a specific technology domain.

## Known failure modes

- Query too vague returns low-relevance web sources
- max_results set to 0 or above 10 causes validation error
- No current web results found for niche or obscure maintainers
- Returned links may be outdated if the crawled sources have not been recently indexed
- Service returns minimal metadata if the project has very low web presence

## How this service works

Open-source maintainer research for Software builders: undefined Focused for software builders; returns current web sources and links.

## Output

Returns a list of web sources and links containing current information about open-source maintainer release activity, governance practices, and project health signals, tailored for software builders evaluating or monitoring open-source projects.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "open-source maintainer release activity governance project health Software builders",
   "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-research-for-software-builders-7c89cc75/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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