# TheBotWire Research Agencies Feed

> TheBotWire Research Agencies Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Streams the latest NSF grant/discovery announcements and NIST measurement standards, cybersecurity frameworks, and reference publications for science and standards agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/research/agencies
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-research-agencies-feed-df7a1399
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Pzu7Rz_JhKnLLGKmQmZGb

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 thebotwire-research-agencies-feed-df7a1399
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest NSF and NIST announcements from the past 24 hours — up to 20 results — and flag anything related to cybersecurity frameworks or AI research grants.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time or recent announcements specifically from NSF (grants, discoveries) or NIST (standards, cybersecurity frameworks, reference publications) as official US government research agency outputs. Prefer it over general web search when you need structured, curated federal science and standards content without noise from third-party commentary or news aggregators.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned when query terms are too specific or no items published in the requested freshness window
- Invalid 'src' enum value returns a validation error
- 'limit' outside the 1–50 range is rejected
- Empty response when the upstream agency feed is temporarily unavailable
- Stale results if the feed has not been refreshed recently

## How this service works

US research agency announcements for science and standards agents: National Science Foundation grants and discoveries, plus NIST measurement standards, cybersecurity frameworks and reference publications.

## Output

A list of structured announcements from NSF and/or NIST, each including title, source agency, publication date, summary or abstract, and a link to the full item — filtered and ranked by recency and optionally by search query.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-research-agencies-feed-df7a1399/health.json
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