# PennyRail Country Holiday Brief

> PennyRail Country Holiday Brief is a paid API for AI agents from pennyrail.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a brief, machine-readable summary of public holidays for a specified country and locale

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://pennyrail.vercel.app/api/p/skill/locale.brief--country-holiday-brief
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/pennyrail-country-holiday-brief-716fdeab
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_mSqFX1sEmQA-hoh_P3-d-

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 pennyrail-country-holiday-brief-716fdeab -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull a brief list of public holidays for Germany so I know which days to avoid scheduling meetings?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, machine-readable holiday summary for a specific country or locale, particularly in automated scheduling, payroll, or workflow contexts where a brief structured result is preferred over a full calendar feed. It is well-suited for agents that need to quickly check national holidays before taking an action, rather than consuming a full iCal or calendar API.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported or invalid country code returns an error or empty result
- Malformed input object causes a 400-level response
- Service unavailability on Vercel infrastructure returns a 5xx error
- Missing required 'input' field causes schema validation failure
- Locale not recognized may return empty holiday list without explicit error

## How this service works

Machine-readable settlement service

## Output

Returns a structured, machine-readable brief containing public holiday names, dates, and locale metadata for the requested country, suitable for use in scheduling, payroll, or calendar automation workflows.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "additionalProperties": true
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/pennyrail-country-holiday-brief-716fdeab/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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