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Crawler files: GET /llms.txt and GET /.well-known/agent.json (also agent-card.json). /headers is a raw header dump. /json validates JSON against a JSON Schema. /sanctions is an OFAC SDN digital-currency screen. /domain is a DNS/RDAP/TLS dossier. /ssl is TLS cert facts from public CT plus a live HTTPS HEAD. /ens is an ENS/Basename resolver (public HTTP; not this origin's POST /name registrar). /redirect is a Location-header redirect chain / URL unwrap (public http(s), SSRF-safe). /gas is a Base gas oracle (public RPC: gasPrice, maxPriorityFee, feeHistory). /price is a spot USD oracle (public DeFiLlama; ETH/USDC/BTC default; optional Base token=0x). /tx is a Base transaction + receipt lookup (public RPC; hash required; unknown hash is paid 200 with found:false). /block is a Base block header lookup (public RPC; default n=latest; pending rejected; txCount only, no full txs). /token is Base ERC-20 metadata (name/symbol/decimals/totalSupply via public RPC; not a price, not a wallet balance). /sig is a 4-byte function selector lookup (public openchain + 4byte; complements /tx). /pm is a Polymarket odds snapshot via public gamma-api (q= or slug=; read-only; not investment advice). /fng is the Crypto Fear & Greed Index via public alternative.me (optional limit=1..30; not investment advice). /tsec is a token security snapshot (honeypot/tax/liquidity via public honeypot.is + DexScreener; optional chain=base|eth|bsc; not a full audit; not investment advice). /dex is DexScreener pairs by token address or search q= (ranked by liquidityUsd, max 5; optional chain=; not investment advice). /now is a UTC clock (unix, ms, iso; alias /time; no params; for IANA zones use /tz). /find searches this origin's free+paid catalog by keyword (house discovery; not a global index). /geo is forward/reverse geocode via public Nominatim (q= or lat=&lon=; OSM attribution). /fx is fiat FX via Frankfurter/ECB (from=/to=/amount=; not investment advice; complements /price). /wx is current weather via public Open-Meteo (q= or lat=&lon=; units=metric|us). /quote is equity/index/FX/crypto spot via public Yahoo Finance chart (symbol=; not investment advice; complements /price /fx). /hn is Hacker News search via public Algolia (q=; optional tags=/sort=). /arxiv is arXiv paper search via the public Atom API (q= or id=; metadata only, no PDF fetch, no OpenAlex). /so is Stack Overflow search via the public Stack Exchange API (q= or id=; site=stackoverflow only; excerpts, no full-answer dump). /cve is CVE / NVD lookup via the public NIST NVD 2.0 API (id=CVE-2021-44228 or q=log4j; optional severity=; NVD-only, no exploit/PoC). /gh is GitHub public REST lookup via api.github.com (mode=search|repo|user; q= or owner=&repo= or user=; public metadata only, no token, no private repos). /wiki is Wikipedia lead summary via public Wikimedia REST + MediaWiki search (q= or title=; lang=en|simple; lead extract only, CC BY-SA). /email is syntax + MX via DoH (no SMTP). /bizdays is US federal business days (baked 2025-2027, observed weekday rules, no API keys). /tz is IANA timezone now + UTC offset + DST (no API keys). /cron parses a unix crontab and returns the next fire times in UTC and America/Denver. /crypto-news is a $0.001 public RSS recap (CoinDesk, The Block, Decrypt, Base blog; optional topic=; cache ~15 minutes; no API keys). 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