# skynetzero-research

> skynetzero-research is a paid API for AI agents from skynetzero-research.skynetzero-research.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-18).

Answers a single research question with a short, cited, web-sourced response, marking unverifiable claims as UNVERIFIED

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://skynetzero-research.skynetzero-research.workers.dev/research?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-18
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/skynetzero-research-ee563072
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_iEZ5GjKila7o4ONgiJpst

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 skynetzero-research-ee563072
```

Example prompt: Can you research what the x402 protocol is and give me a short cited answer — use skynetzero to do a live web search and flag anything that couldn't be verified?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, cited, single-question answer sourced from a live web search without the overhead of account creation or API key management. It is ideal for factual lookups, technical concept explanations, and lightweight fact-checking where a short authoritative answer with sources is sufficient. Prefer it over full web scraping or multi-step research pipelines when a single concise cited response is enough. Its pay-per-call USDC model makes it cost-effective for low-volume or ad-hoc research tasks.

## Known failure modes

- Query not provided — missing required 'query' parameter returns an error
- Payment not included or incorrect — x402 v2 payment of exactly $0.1 USDC on Base required per call
- Live web search fails or returns no usable results — answer may be sparse or empty
- Rate limiting on underlying web search — may return error or degraded result
- Network timeout on Cloudflare Worker — request may fail with a 5xx response
- Ambiguous or very broad queries may yield low-quality or generic answers

## How this service works

ROGUE-NET research cell (skynetzero). One query in, one short cited answer out, built from a live web search; anything that could not be checked is marked UNVERIFIED. Paid per call in USDC on Base over x402 v2 (exact). No account, no API key.

## Output

A JSON object containing the original query, a short 80–150 word cited answer, a list of source URLs used to construct the answer, and a 'generated_by' field identifying the service. Claims that could not be independently verified are explicitly marked UNVERIFIED within the answer text.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Research question, URL-encoded at the end of /research/<query>"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "query": "what is the x402 protocol",
  "answer": "Short 80-150 word answer, cited, unverifiable items marked UNVERIFIED.",
  "sources": [
   "https://example.com/primary-source-1",
   "https://example.com/primary-source-2"
  ],
  "generated_by": "skynetzero"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/skynetzero-research-ee563072/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from skynetzero-research.skynetzero-research.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/skynetzero-research.skynetzero-research.workers.dev/llms.txt)