# Zero-Bloat A2A Live Web Search & Tech News Grounding

> Zero-Bloat A2A Live Web Search & Tech News Grounding is a paid API for AI agents from preflight.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Executes live Google News RSS and HackerNews Algolia searches and returns clean, token-pruned, ad-free results for AI agent grounding.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://preflight.agentdiet.dev/v1/grounded-citations?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: preflight.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://preflight.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/preflight-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-9e8e7a18
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jq80Zpz5Gvow_dJUn5xS4

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 preflight-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-9e8e7a18
```

Example prompt: Can you search for the latest news and HackerNews discussions about WebAssembly performance improvements and give me clean, ad-free citations I can use to ground my research?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs real-time, grounded news or tech article citations with minimal token overhead. It is especially well-suited for developer-facing queries where HackerNews community sentiment matters, or when Google News freshness is required. Prefer this over static knowledge bases when the query is time-sensitive or requires live web grounding with clean, ad-stripped output.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'query' parameter returns a 400 error
- Empty or very short query may return no results
- Google News RSS or HackerNews Algolia upstream downtime causes empty or error response
- Payment failure (HTTP 402) if x402 micropayment is not processed
- Rate limiting if too many queries are sent in rapid succession

## How this service works

Executes live Google News RSS + HackerNews Algolia search queries and returns clean, token-pruned results with zero ad bloat. (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://preflight.agentdiet.dev/v1/grounded-citations)

## Output

A structured, token-pruned list of live news and HackerNews results relevant to the query, including article titles, source names, publication times, and links — all stripped of ads and boilerplate to minimize token usage for AI agents.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "query"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "Search query for live news, technical articles, and web results"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/preflight-agentdiet-dev-zero-bloat-a2a-live-web-search-tech-news-9e8e7a18/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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