{"uid":"cap_xWclN5qej0Q5dGSUccyOf","slug":"forgemesh-utility-grid-daily-featured-api-pick-4d0d4db0","name":"ForgeMesh Utility Grid — Daily Featured API Pick","description":"The Daily 402: one featured x402 endpoint per UTC day, rotated deterministically through every paid route in the 11-service ForgeMesh fleet (500+ routes). Returns the pick's route, price, input schema, example output, and exactly how to pay it. Stable URL, rotating payload — the same date always returns the same pick, and an optional date (YYYY-MM-DD) previews any day. The cheapest daily way to discover a new agent capability.","url":"https://x402.forgemesh.io/daily","method":"POST","headers":{},"bodySchema":{"type":"object","properties":{"date":{"type":"string","description":"Optional: preview a specific UTC day's pick, format YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today."}}},"responseSchema":{"type":"json","example":{"date":"2026-07-18","try_it":"POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/recent-earthquakes — the first bare call returns HTTP 402 with exact USDC payment requirements (Base mainnet); settle with any x402 client and retry to get the data.","featured":{"host":"x402.forgemesh.io","price":"$0.005","route":"/recent-earthquakes","method":"POST","category":"utility-grid","product_id":"utility-grid","description":"Recent earthquakes API: latest global quakes above your magnitude threshold from a real-time seismic feed…","input_schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"min_magnitude":{"type":"string","description":"Minimum magnitude, default 4"}}},"product_name":"ForgeMesh Utility Grid","example_output":{"data":{"type":"FeatureCollection"},"attribution":"U.S. Geological Survey (public domain)"}},"rotation":"deterministic by UTC date — same date always returns the same pick; every route in the fleet gets its day","pool_size":547,"full_product_sheet":"POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/fleet-product-detail ($0.05) with {\"product\":\"utility-grid\"} for every route, schema, and worked example on ForgeMesh Utility Grid.","catalog_generated_at":"2026-07-18T16:21:11.232Z"}},"example":null,"exampleRequest":null,"tags":["x402"],"displayCostAmount":"0.001","displayCostAsset":"USDC","priceDynamic":false,"priceHint":null,"priceStatus":"priced","priceSource":"probe","requiresHandshake":false,"reviewCount":0,"rating":{"score":"0.00","successRate":"0.00","reviews":0,"stars":null,"state":"unrated"},"availabilityStatus":"unknown","priceObserved":null,"sessionDeposit":null,"pricing":{"kind":"static","summary":"$0.001/call","primary":{"kind":"static","protocol":"x402","network":"base","amountUsd":"0.001","per":"call","confidence":"exact"},"accepted":[{"kind":"static","protocol":"x402","network":"base","amountUsd":"0.001","per":"call","confidence":"exact"}]},"paymentMethods":[{"uid":"pm_M34dHlSoTmoBiqTi9fHIs","protocol":"x402","methodType":"crypto","chain":"base","mode":"charge","costAmount":"0.001","costPer":"request","priority":0,"asset":"0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913","unit":"request","depositMicros":null,"planRef":null}],"brandName":null,"brandSlug":null,"brandBaseUrl":null,"brandDocsUrl":null,"whatItDoes":"Returns today's (or a specified UTC date's) featured API route from the ForgeMesh x402 utility fleet, including its schema, description, and ecosystem metadata.","exampleAgentPrompt":"What's the ForgeMesh Utility Grid's featured API pick for today — show me its route, price, description, and input schema so I know what it does.","exampleUseCases":[{"title":"Explore today's featured utility API","prompt":"What API is ForgeMesh highlighting today in their utility grid? I want to see the route, price, and what it does before deciding whether to call it."},{"title":"Preview API pick for a past date","prompt":"What was the ForgeMesh daily featured API on 2026-07-01? Give me the route name, description, and schema for that date."},{"title":"Discover rotating x402 APIs for agent tooling","prompt":"I'm building an AI agent and want to sample what's in the ForgeMesh utility fleet — pull today's daily pick so I can see a real example route with its schema and example output."}],"resultDescription":"A JSON object containing the featured UTC date, the highlighted route's hostname, HTTP method, path, price, category, product name, description, input schema, and an example output. Also includes the fleet pool size, rotation logic explanation, a try-it instruction, a link to the full product sheet, and the catalog generation timestamp.","failureModes":["Invalid date format (not YYYY-MM-DD) may return a validation error","Dates outside the available catalog window may return no featured pick","Payment not settled correctly via x402 flow returns HTTP 402 with payment challenge","Network or upstream outage may return 5xx error"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you want to discover or sample the ForgeMesh Utility Grid fleet in a rotating, curated way — particularly useful for agent onboarding, capability exploration, or surfacing a fresh API each day. Prefer this over the full fleet catalog when you want a single highlighted route with worked examples rather than all 500+ routes at once.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-09-14T00:50:04.983Z","isFirstParty":false}