# Provenance Manifests - Declared Bound Audit

> Provenance Manifests - Declared Bound Audit is a paid API for AI agents from www.mahastrategies.com, paid per call via x402, $0.010112/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Validates that declared counts in caller-supplied provenance manifests fall within a specified ceiling value, in matching units, without downloading sources or verifying signatures.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/verify/provenance-manifests/declared-bound-audit?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.010112/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/provenance-manifests-declared-bound-audit-71276028
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_B2CfEk-NHdWPvgQ81-J6r

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 provenance-manifests-declared-bound-audit-71276028 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you audit these 5 provenance manifest measurements against a ceiling of 500000 bytes, for a public data class, and confirm they're all within bounds? The metadata is nonpersonal only.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a lightweight, offline policy check confirming that caller-supplied provenance manifest declared counts do not exceed a specified ceiling, without any source download, cryptographic verification, or scientific validity assessment. It is appropriate for automated compliance pipelines that need a typed, nonpersonal metadata audit trail with a short result retention window.

## Known failure modes

- Measurements array exceeds 32 items — rejected
- Maximum value exceeds 1,000,000,000 — rejected
- Invalid unit enum value — schema validation error
- nonpersonalMetadata not set to true — rejected
- Invalid dataClass value — schema validation error
- Empty measurements array — rejected

## How this service works

Compare nonnegative declared counts against an explicit ceiling in matching units. Bounds are caller policy, not security strength, material safety or legally binding quotas for caller-supplied artifact and dataset provenance manifests. No source download, build reproduction, signature verification, proof of origin, causality or scientific validity. Offline typed nonpersonal metadata only. Result retention: 24 hours; minimal receipt metadata: 90 days.

## Output

A bound-check result indicating whether each declared count in the provenance manifest falls within the specified ceiling in the given unit, along with a minimal receipt. Full results retained for 24 hours; minimal receipt metadata retained for 90 days.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "unit": {
   "enum": [
    "bytes",
    "KiB",
    "KB"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "maximum": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 1000000000,
   "minimum": 0
  },
  "dataClass": {
   "enum": [
    "public",
    "synthetic"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "measurements": {
   "type": "array",
   "maxItems": 32,
   "minItems": 1
  },
  "nonpersonalMetadata": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "const": true
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/provenance-manifests-declared-bound-audit-71276028/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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