# PerplexityBot Access Decision

> PerplexityBot Access Decision is a paid API for AI agents from agentreadiness.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Passively evaluates whether PerplexityBot can access a given public URL and returns a verdict with supporting evidence, threshold, and recommended action.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agentreadiness.halowerk.com/v1/perplexitybot-access-decision?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/perplexitybot-access-decision-17a2f8dd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_B74tiJq6VzRgDxHniUQxK

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 perplexitybot-access-decision-17a2f8dd -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you check whether PerplexityBot is allowed to access https://myblog.com and give me the verdict along with what evidence you found?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a passive, read-only determination of whether PerplexityBot is permitted to access a specific public URL — no login, exploit, or active probing is performed. Prefer this over generic robots.txt parsers when you need a verdict with evidence sourcing, threshold context, and an actionable recommendation specifically scoped to PerplexityBot. Choose the sibling repair-plan endpoint if you already have a verdict and need remediation steps.

## Known failure modes

- Target URL is unreachable or returns non-200 status — check returns error or inconclusive verdict
- Domain has no robots.txt and no meta tags — evidence is absent, result may be uncertain
- Rate limiting or firewall on target blocks the passive fetch — limitation reported in response
- Malformed or ambiguous robots.txt leads to inconclusive verdict
- compare_url is inaccessible — comparison step skipped or returns partial result

## How this service works

PerplexityBot access decision fetches current public evidence from the supplied target and evaluates the documented criterion. It returns the observation, threshold, verdict, exact evidence source, limitations and a mode-specific action. The check is passive: no login attempt, payload injection, exploit, purchase, form submission or load test is performed.

## Output

Returns a structured response containing: the observation (what was found on the target), the threshold used for evaluation, a pass/fail/uncertain verdict on PerplexityBot access, the exact evidence source (e.g. robots.txt URL or meta tag location), known limitations of the passive check, and a mode-specific action recommendation for remediation or confirmation.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "target": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 2048,
   "minLength": 3,
   "description": "Public HTTP(S) URL or domain to inspect. A bare domain is normalized to HTTPS."
  },
  "context": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "Optional non-secret correlation labels returned unchanged only in the request lifecycle.",
   "maxProperties": 12,
   "additionalProperties": {
    "type": [
     "string",
     "number",
     "boolean",
     "null"
    ]
   }
  },
  "baseline": {
   "type": [
    "object",
    "null"
   ],
   "description": "Optional baseline returned by a previous snapshot call.",
   "additionalProperties": true
  },
  "compare_url": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 2048,
   "minLength": 3,
   "description": "Optional public comparison URL. Used by change and monitoring services."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/perplexitybot-access-decision-17a2f8dd/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agentreadiness.halowerk.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agentreadiness.halowerk.com/llms.txt)