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Micro Citation Binding Check

by Citation Binding Check in Security & trust

x402 APIPassing, checked 2 h ago

Check citation metadata before an evidence review. Compare up to 20 declared source identities, revisions and locators; return exact mismatches and an integrity receipt. No source retrieval, passage-existence check or claim-support verification.

POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/micro/citation-binding-check

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Uptime
100%
Response time
473 ms typical, 1.6 s slowest 5%
Last check
2 h ago
Next check
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How to call it

POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/micro/citation-binding-check

Each call costs $0.016 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/micro/citation-binding-check
content-type: application/json

{
  "bindings": [
    {
      "expected": {
        "kind": "section",
        "sourceId": "synthetic-source",
        "sourceRevision": "sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
        "value": "3.2"
      },
      "observed": {
        "kind": "section",
        "sourceId": "synthetic-source",
        "sourceRevision": "sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
        "value": "3.2"
      }
    }
  ],
  "dataClass": "synthetic"
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
bindingsarrayYes
dataClassstringYes One of: public, synthetic.

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "amountBaseUnits": "16000",
  "boundaries": [
    "Public or synthetic inputs only. Caller labels are declarations,…"
  ],
  "inputDigest": "sha256:5cc2143afd39282519b449f878539adfef4ba365215969c6aa7eb4410…",
  "offerId": "citation-binding-check",
  "receiptDigest": "sha256:da0e31d42d2da3660b25d85c84460143334ce376ca8e6b966f82c8945…",
  "result": {
    "allMatch": true,
    "checks": [
      {
        "expectedDigest": "sha256:c4af4e4909bff246132e05e85a4ca943e25ff51788e09e8aa45cfee5c…",
        "index": 0,
        "matches": true,
        "mismatches": [],
        "observedDigest": "sha256:c4af4e4909bff246132e05e85a4ca943e25ff51788e09e8aa45cfee5c…"
      }
    ],
    "claimSupportVerified": false,
    "passageInspected": false
  },
  "version": "maha-microproducts/0.1"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.016.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/micro/citation-binding-check' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"bindings":[{"expected":{"kind":"section","sourceId":"synthetic-source","sourceRevision":"sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111","value":"3.2"},"observed":{"kind":"section","sourceId":"synthetic-source","sourceRevision":"sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111","value":"3.2"}}],"dataClass":"synthetic"}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/micro/citation-binding-check' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"bindings":[{"expected":{"kind":"section","sourceId":"synthetic-source","sourceRevision":"sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111","value":"3.2"},"observed":{"kind":"section","sourceId":"synthetic-source","sourceRevision":"sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111","value":"3.2"}}],"dataClass":"synthetic"}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.016 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.016" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.016 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mahastrategies.com%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fmicro%2Fcitation-binding-check&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/micro/citation-binding-check", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "bindings": [
      {
        "expected": {
          "kind": "section",
          "sourceId": "synthetic-source",
          "sourceRevision": "sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
          "value": "3.2"
        },
        "observed": {
          "kind": "section",
          "sourceId": "synthetic-source",
          "sourceRevision": "sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
          "value": "3.2"
        }
      }
    ],
    "dataClass": "synthetic"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.016 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.016"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/micro/citation-binding-check",
        json={
            "bindings": [
                {
                    "expected": {
                        "kind": "section",
                        "sourceId": "synthetic-source",
                        "sourceRevision": "sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
                        "value": "3.2",
                    },
                    "observed": {
                        "kind": "section",
                        "sourceId": "synthetic-source",
                        "sourceRevision": "sha256:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
                        "value": "3.2",
                    },
                },
            ],
            "dataClass": "synthetic",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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