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Add-on, the official ruler
GET api.truthbear.co/gauge/ruler
SONAR SCORE0.832
LIVE PRICE0.005000
BAZAAR LIVEnot compatible
CDP INDEXEDno
DECISION EVIDENCE
12 observations in the last 24hWhy an agent can trust this route.
HANDSHAKE SUCCESS100.0%402 challenge reachable
PAID DELIVERY0.0%settlement observed
P90 LATENCY743msrecent response window
PRICE DRIFT0.0%advertised vs observed
Sonar evidence is advisory. Paid delivery is shown as verified only when paid probes are available; otherwise route estimates use the unpaid handshake as a clearly labeled proxy.
SONAR PROBE HISTORY / 30D
JSON ↗Observed outcomes
LIVE ENDPOINT METADATA
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Resource: api.truthbear.co/gauge/ruler
Network: base · Asset: 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 · Pay to: 0x2d16a243ba9fAcC6AC85519d5efad2149DC4C6c3
Payment methods: — · Last validation: 2026-10-15 11:46:31.484+00
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"description": "Honest data-grade disclosure (e.g. \"screening-level, not decision-grade\")"
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"description": "Honest statement of scope and limits: monitoring is not forecasting, intelligence is not instruction, and the boundary of what is verifiable"
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"entity": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Monitored object id (e.g. btc / us / hormuz); full list at free /gauge/catalog or /gauge/preview"
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"nature": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Neutrality statement: GAUGE supplies observations and trend description only - no judgement, no prediction, no recommendation"
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"description": "Offline-verifiable citation: {statement_type, not_advice:bool, claim, fact, source, record_hash, signature(Ed25519), key_id, issuer_DID(did:key), verify_url} - the trust root for zero-trust self-verification"
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"signal_id": {
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"description": "Signal id in genus.species ASCII binomial form (e.g. crypto.spot / macro.unemployment / shipping.route-disruption); full list at free /gauge/catalog"
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"description": "Human-readable name of the object"
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"type": [
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"null"
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"description": "sha256:<64hex> (contract A v3, binds the values plus provenance)"
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"null"
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"description": "Age frozen at collection time (0 = same hour), for reference only - if a collector stalls this field stops moving. For freshness always use provenance.age_hours_now (computed at request time) and provenance.freshness; the threshold basis is in provenance.freshness_basis"
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"description": "{count, points:[{tag,current,swappable,how}], note} - decision points you can re-run with a swapped tag (one swapped tag = one call); leave it alone and the original context is the default, at no extra charge"
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"null"
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"description": "Whether this response can recompute its own record_hash offline. Present only when the payload carries a top-level record_hash; may be absent on list-shaped deliveries where verifiability is stated per row instead"
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"description": "Add-on, the official ruler: the band and threshold ladder published by the source agency, its classification, and distance-to-action. NOT every line has an official ruler - pure market quotes do not. When it does not, you get 422 with no_charge:true and reason:no-ruler-for-this-line and you are NOT billed. Never a bag of nulls you paid for. Every record carries an offline-recomputable record_hash. $0.0050 per call.",
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"description": "required - monitored object id, paired with signal_id; free list at GET /gauge/catalog?signal_id=<signal_id> -> signals[0].entities[]"
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"type": "string",
"examples": [
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],
"description": "required - signal id (genus.species); free list at GET /gauge/catalog (paged; ?all=1 for every line)"
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"signal_id": "required - signal id (genus.species); free list at GET /gauge/catalog (paged; ?all=1 for every line)"
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"description": "Honest data-grade disclosure (e.g. \"screening-level, not decision-grade\")"
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"description": "Official-ruler projection: band / thresholds / official category / distance to action / standard"
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"description": "Honest statement of scope and limits: monitoring is not forecasting, intelligence is not instruction, and the boundary of what is verifiable"
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"description": "Monitored object id (e.g. btc / us / hormuz); full list at free /gauge/catalog or /gauge/preview"
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"nature": {
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"description": "Signal id in genus.species ASCII binomial form (e.g. crypto.spot / macro.unemployment / shipping.route-disruption); full list at free /gauge/catalog"
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"type": [
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"description": "Human-readable name of the object"
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"record_hash": {
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"null"
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"description": "sha256:<64hex> (contract A v3, binds the values plus provenance)"
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"null"
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"description": "Age frozen at collection time (0 = same hour), for reference only - if a collector stalls this field stops moving. For freshness always use provenance.age_hours_now (computed at request time) and provenance.freshness; the threshold basis is in provenance.freshness_basis"
},
"decision_points": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
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"description": "{count, points:[{tag,current,swappable,how}], note} - decision points you can re-run with a swapped tag (one swapped tag = one call); leave it alone and the original context is the default, at no extra charge"
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"type": [
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"null"
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"type": [
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"null"
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"description": "{mode:offline|via-endpoint, note}"
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"type": [
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"null"
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"description": "Most recent qualifying fact for this line and entity, attached centrally (may be absent when the line has no qualifying fact yet)"
},
"decision_points": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
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"description": "Swappable decision points for this entity, attached centrally: {count, points:[{tag,current,swappable,how}], note}. Present only when the entity has at least one swappable tag in the index, so bundles for entities without one omit it"
},
"leg_availability": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
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"description": "Per-leg degradation disclosure: which legs are present, which are degraded and why. Present only when at least one leg is degraded"
},
"record_hash_verifiable": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "Whether this response can recompute its own record_hash offline. Present only when the payload carries a top-level record_hash; may be absent on list-shaped deliveries where verifiability is stated per row instead"
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}
}
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}METADATA PROVENANCE
Source catalog records are retained separately from live endpoint observations. Sonar score, uptime, and latency are advisory metrics. CDP indexing is not inferred from validation.