# Policy Excerpts — Declared-Bound Audit

> Policy Excerpts — Declared-Bound Audit is a paid API for AI agents from www.mahastrategies.com, paid per call via x402, $0.010084/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Validates that declared byte counts for policy text excerpts do not exceed per-excerpt and total caller-defined limits, without downloading or processing the actual text.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/context/policy-excerpts/declared-bound-audit?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.010084/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/policy-excerpts-declared-bound-audit-133cb655
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_1r7vcfO38iagtIcmspvMK

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 policy-excerpts-declared-bound-audit-133cb655 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Audit these 5 policy excerpts against a maximum of 2000 bytes per excerpt and 8000 bytes total — they're all public data and nonpersonal metadata only — just check if the declared byte counts are within those bounds without downloading anything.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, offline audit of declared policy excerpt byte counts against caller-defined per-excerpt and total limits — without downloading, tokenizing, or inferring from actual policy text. It is ideal for compliance gating, pre-upload validation, or automated enforcement pipelines where only nonpersonal typed metadata is involved and no inference about full policy completeness is required.

## Known failure modes

- Excerpts array is empty or exceeds 32 items — validation error returned
- maximumExcerptBytes or maximumTotalBytes out of range 0–1000000 — schema rejection
- nonpersonalMetadata not set to true — request rejected
- dataClass not one of 'public' or 'synthetic' — enum validation failure
- Malformed request body — 400 bad request
- Payment not processed — 402 payment required

## How this service works

Compare declared excerpt byte counts with per-excerpt and total caller limits. No text download, tokenizer measurement or inference that a complete policy fits. Offline typed nonpersonal metadata only. Result retention: 24 hours; minimal receipt metadata: 90 days.

## Output

Returns an audit result indicating whether each excerpt's declared byte count is within the specified per-excerpt limit and whether the total declared byte count is within the specified total limit. Includes a compliance status per excerpt and overall. Result data is retained for 24 hours; minimal receipt metadata is retained for 90 days.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "excerpts": {
   "type": "array",
   "maxItems": 32,
   "minItems": 1
  },
  "dataClass": {
   "enum": [
    "public",
    "synthetic"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "maximumTotalBytes": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 1000000,
   "minimum": 0
  },
  "maximumExcerptBytes": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 1000000,
   "minimum": 0
  },
  "nonpersonalMetadata": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "const": true
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/policy-excerpts-declared-bound-audit-133cb655/health.json
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