# Translation Vendor Selection and Quality Acceptance Decision Procedure

> Translation Vendor Selection and Quality Acceptance Decision Procedure is a paid API for AI agents from k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Returns a machine-executable decision procedure telling an agent which translation rail to use (premium MT, frontier LLM, free API, or deferred) for a given translation job, including quality gates and cost controls.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev/api/services/agent-facing-translation-procurement-decision-pr?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/translation-vendor-selection-and-quality-acceptance-decision-procedure-f4366449
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FBD4nNq_9tcw-CKn7j6-H

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 translation-vendor-selection-and-quality-acceptance-decision-procedure-f4366449
```

Example prompt: I need to translate a legal contract from English to Japanese — can you run the translation vendor decision procedure to tell me whether to use premium MT like DeepL, a frontier LLM, or the free API, given my $0.50 per-document budget cap and the legal domain glossary terms I have?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when your agent needs a policy-driven, auditable decision on which translation vendor to invoke — especially when cost caps, domain-specific glossaries, quality gates, and fallback ordering all need to be respected in a single call. Prefer this over hard-coding vendor logic when you need back-translation spot-check guidance, language-pair-aware routing, or multi-rail fallback behavior baked into one executable procedure.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported language pair returns no viable vendor recommendation
- Budget cap too low for any available rail triggers deferred verdict
- Missing required payment (x402) returns 402 Payment Required before delivering procedure
- LLM generation failure returns generationSource error with no procedure content
- Unknown domain or glossary format may produce generic rather than domain-specific routing

## How this service works

Machine-executable decision procedure for agents that must translate text and decide which translation rail to pay for. Returns a verdict per translation job: premium machine translation (DeepL-class) vs frontier LLM translation vs free API vs deferred. Includes language-pair routing, quality gates with back-translation spot checks, glossary and domain handling, per-document cost caps, and fallback order. Inputs: source text, target language, domain, glossary terms, decision value, budget cap,

## Output

A decision procedure document (prose and structured data) specifying: the recommended translation vendor rail (premium MT, frontier LLM, free API, or deferred), language-pair routing rationale, quality gate criteria including back-translation spot check instructions, glossary and domain handling guidance, per-document cost cap enforcement rules, and a prioritized fallback order for the given translation job.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "meta": {
       "enum": [
        "0",
        "1"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Set to 1 for free metadata JSON (no payment required)"
      },
      "topic": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional topic override for the decision procedure"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "title": "Translation vendor selection and quality acceptance procedure for agents paid response",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "required": [
      "ok",
      "paid",
      "service",
      "provider",
      "result"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "ok": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "paid": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "result": {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "ok",
        "service"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "ok": {
         "type": "boolean",
         "description": "Handler success"
        },
        "brief": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "Decision procedure prose for agents"
        },
        "model": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "topic": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "service": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "Service slug"
        },
        "procedure": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "generatedAt": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "ISO-8601 timestamp"
        },
        "generationSource": {
         "enum": [
          "llm",
          "reasoning",
          "deterministic"
         ],
         "type": "string"
        }
       }
      },
      "payment": {
       "type": "object",
       "properties": {
        "code": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "payer": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "detail": {
       
… (truncated)
```

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