{"id":11829,"name":"vindex","description":"Vehicle Intelligence for AI agents. Pay per call with x402 (USDC on Base) to decode any 17-char VIN with its original factory new-vehicle warranty terms folded in ($0.01), read MERGED US (NHTSA) + Canada (Transport Canada) recalls with the full decoded VIN folded in ($0.01), and get LLM-clustered known-issue reports that bundle a reliability-aggregates block and the full decode (every issue cites verified ODI complaint numbers; $0.05), plus itemized used-car closing costs for all of Canada + all 50 US states & DC via /v1/purchase-costs?country=CA|US ($0.02). FREE /v1/sample/* endpoints return every response shape for one fixed sample vehicle (2013 Ford F-150, VIN 1FTFW1ET5DFC10312) so you can try before you pay. Every JSON object response carries a legal `disclaimer` field. Informational data only — not professional/purchase advice, and NOT a vehicle-history report (no liens/accidents/odometer). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.","card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","endpoint":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/a2a","protocol_version":"0.3.0","first_seen":"2026-10-10T13:27:06.299897+00:00","last_verified":"2026-10-11T17:33:39.987337+00:00","card":{"url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/a2a","name":"vindex","x402":{"assets":["USDC"],"version":2,"networks":["eip155:8453"]},"skills":[{"id":"decode","name":"Normalized NHTSA vPIC VIN decode","tags":["vindex","decode"],"priceUsd":0.01,"description":"Paid ($0.01 USDC via x402). Decodes a 17-char VIN through NHTSA vPIC and returns the normalized decoded vehicle (make/model/year/engine/body/…) with fetch provenance, PLUS a `warranty` block giving the ORIGINAL factory new-vehicle warranty terms (basic/powertrain/corrosion/roadside/EV-battery) keyed off the decoded make + model-year. Warranty terms are the manufacturer's original coverage as sold — NOT warranty-remaining, and NOT extended-warranty campaigns, recalls, or emissions warranties. The cheapest call when you only need the decode — the same `vehicle` object is also folded into /v1/recalls and /v1/known-issues. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/decode."},{"id":"recalls","name":"Merged US (NHTSA) + Canada (Transport Canada) recalls + full decoded vehicle","tags":["vindex","recalls"],"priceUsd":0.01,"description":"Paid ($0.01 USDC via x402). Decodes the VIN and returns the FULL decoded vehicle (the same payload as /v1/decode is folded in here), then merges NHTSA (US) and Transport Canada (CA) recalls into one response — the only API combining both. 24h cache per source; stale served on failure. Canadian detail capped at the 25 most-recent recalls. OGL–Canada attribution. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/recalls."},{"id":"known-issues","name":"LLM-clustered named failure modes with verified ODI citations + reliability block + full decode","tags":["vindex","known-issues"],"priceUsd":0.05,"description":"Paid ($0.05 USDC via x402). Clusters NHTSA owner complaints into named failure modes; EVERY cited ODI number is programmatically validated against the input complaint set (hallucination-gated) and every issue carries ≥2 verified citations. Severity signals per issue are summed from the CITED complaints only. The response also bundles a `reliability` aggregates block (top components, severity signals, US/Canada recall counts incl. Canadian units affected — reliability was merged into known-issues on 2026-07-07), the full decoded `vehicle` (same payload as /v1/decode), and `complaintsAnalyzed`, the size of the recent-weighted stratified sample the LLM actually saw (vs `complaintCount`, the total). Refuses UNCHARGED below 15 complaints (returns 200 status:insufficient_data) — but still returns the decode + reliability block for free. 90-day cache. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/known-issues."},{"id":"purchase-costs","name":"Itemized US + Canada used-vehicle closing costs (country=CA|US)","tags":["vindex","purchase-costs"],"priceUsd":0.02,"description":"Paid ($0.02 USDC via x402). Government-imposed closing costs of buying a used passenger vehicle, unified across both countries via `country=CA|US`. CA: any of Canada's 10 provinces + 3 territories (BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, NL, YT, NT, NU) — provincial/territorial sales tax (PST/RST/QST/HST or GST-only) plus transfer/registration/plate fees and inspection; tax is flat on the whole price at the highest bracket whose threshold the price meets (BC private 12% → 15% ≥ $125,000 → 20% ≥ $150,000); Alberta + the three territories levy no private-sale tax; dealer sales add 5% GST except in HST provinces (ON/NB/NS/PE/NL). US: any of the 50 states or DC — sales/use/excise tax, title, first-year registration, inspection, and (for dealer sales) a dealer documentation fee; special regimes handled automatically (DC tiered title-excise range, IL flat RUT-50 private-party table, SC 5% IMF capped at $500, and AK/AZ/HI/MT/NV/NH/OR no private-party sales tax). Each line carries a source URL and confidence. Figures verified 2026-07-04. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/purchase-costs."},{"id":"prepurchase","name":"Pre-purchase report: decode + recalls + known issues + ownership costs in one call","tags":["vindex","prepurchase"],"priceUsd":0.25,"description":"Whole-job bundle for agents advising a vehicle purchase. One payment returns the normalized VIN decode, safety recalls, known-issue/reliability summary, and CA/US purchase+ownership cost estimate for the decoded vehicle. Equivalent to 4 separate paid calls. Composed in-process from the same data as /v1/decode, /v1/recalls, /v1/known-issues and /v1/purchase-costs (no extra upstream fan-out beyond those). The decode is computed FIRST — an invalid VIN or decode failure returns UNCHARGED (no settle). The response then settles only if the decode succeeded AND at least 2 of the 3 secondary sections (recalls, known-issues, purchase-costs) are available; otherwise it returns UNCHARGED { error: 'insufficient_sections', sections: {…} }. A section that failed but was still charged appears as sections.<name>:'unavailable' with the rest of the report intact. The cost section is a jurisdiction-level estimate (the bundle takes no price/province/state) — call GET /v1/purchase-costs for an exact itemized figure. Compute-first / settle-after. Each section carries its own fetch provenance."}],"version":"0.2.1","provider":{"url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev","organization":"Vindex API"},"endpoints":[{"path":"/v1/decode","method":"GET","params":["vin"],"priceUsd":0.01,"description":"Paid ($0.01 USDC via x402). Decodes a 17-char VIN through NHTSA vPIC and returns the normalized decoded vehicle (make/model/year/engine/body/…) with fetch provenance, PLUS a `warranty` block giving the ORIGINAL factory new-vehicle warranty terms (basic/powertrain/corrosion/roadside/EV-battery) keyed off the decoded make + model-year. Warranty terms are the manufacturer's original coverage as sold — NOT warranty-remaining, and NOT extended-warranty campaigns, recalls, or emissions warranties. The cheapest call when you only need the decode — the same `vehicle` object is also folded into /v1/recalls and /v1/known-issues. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/decode."},{"path":"/v1/recalls","method":"GET","params":["vin"],"priceUsd":0.01,"description":"Paid ($0.01 USDC via x402). Decodes the VIN and returns the FULL decoded vehicle (the same payload as /v1/decode is folded in here), then merges NHTSA (US) and Transport Canada (CA) recalls into one response — the only API combining both. 24h cache per source; stale served on failure. Canadian detail capped at the 25 most-recent recalls. OGL–Canada attribution. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/recalls."},{"path":"/v1/known-issues","method":"GET","params":["vin"],"priceUsd":0.05,"description":"Paid ($0.05 USDC via x402). Clusters NHTSA owner complaints into named failure modes; EVERY cited ODI number is programmatically validated against the input complaint set (hallucination-gated) and every issue carries ≥2 verified citations. Severity signals per issue are summed from the CITED complaints only. The response also bundles a `reliability` aggregates block (top components, severity signals, US/Canada recall counts incl. Canadian units affected — reliability was merged into known-issues on 2026-07-07), the full decoded `vehicle` (same payload as /v1/decode), and `complaintsAnalyzed`, the size of the recent-weighted stratified sample the LLM actually saw (vs `complaintCount`, the total). Refuses UNCHARGED below 15 complaints (returns 200 status:insufficient_data) — but still returns the decode + reliability block for free. 90-day cache. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/known-issues."},{"path":"/v1/purchase-costs","method":"GET","params":["country","price","sale_type","province","state","family_gift","buyer_has_plates","trade_in","local_rate"],"priceUsd":0.02,"description":"Paid ($0.02 USDC via x402). Government-imposed closing costs of buying a used passenger vehicle, unified across both countries via `country=CA|US`. CA: any of Canada's 10 provinces + 3 territories (BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, NL, YT, NT, NU) — provincial/territorial sales tax (PST/RST/QST/HST or GST-only) plus transfer/registration/plate fees and inspection; tax is flat on the whole price at the highest bracket whose threshold the price meets (BC private 12% → 15% ≥ $125,000 → 20% ≥ $150,000); Alberta + the three territories levy no private-sale tax; dealer sales add 5% GST except in HST provinces (ON/NB/NS/PE/NL). US: any of the 50 states or DC — sales/use/excise tax, title, first-year registration, inspection, and (for dealer sales) a dealer documentation fee; special regimes handled automatically (DC tiered title-excise range, IL flat RUT-50 private-party table, SC 5% IMF capped at $500, and AK/AZ/HI/MT/NV/NH/OR no private-party sales tax). Each line carries a source URL and confidence. Figures verified 2026-07-04. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/purchase-costs."},{"path":"/v1/prepurchase","method":"GET","params":["vin","country"],"priceUsd":0.25,"description":"Whole-job bundle for agents advising a vehicle purchase. One payment returns the normalized VIN decode, safety recalls, known-issue/reliability summary, and CA/US purchase+ownership cost estimate for the decoded vehicle. Equivalent to 4 separate paid calls. Composed in-process from the same data as /v1/decode, /v1/recalls, /v1/known-issues and /v1/purchase-costs (no extra upstream fan-out beyond those). The decode is computed FIRST — an invalid VIN or decode failure returns UNCHARGED (no settle). The response then settles only if the decode succeeded AND at least 2 of the 3 secondary sections (recalls, known-issues, purchase-costs) are available; otherwise it returns UNCHARGED { error: 'insufficient_sections', sections: {…} }. A section that failed but was still charged appears as sections.<name>:'unavailable' with the rest of the report intact. The cost section is a jurisdiction-level estimate (the bundle takes no price/province/state) — call GET /v1/purchase-costs for an exact itemized figure. Compute-first / settle-after. Each section carries its own fetch provenance."},{"path":"/.well-known/hexanon","method":"GET","params":[],"priceUsd":0,"description":"Catalog of all products in the Hexanon family (x402 data & intelligence APIs for AI agents) — names, taglines, API base URLs, docs, MCP packages. Same catalog on every Hexanon product; canonical copy at https://api.moltalyzer.xyz/.well-known/hexanon."},{"path":"/v1/sample/decode","method":"GET","params":[],"priceUsd":0,"description":"Free, no payment. Normalized NHTSA vPIC decode for the fixed sample vehicle. Same shape as paid GET /v1/decode plus `sample: true` and `note`."},{"path":"/v1/sample/recalls","method":"GET","params":[],"priceUsd":0,"description":"Free, no payment. Merged NHTSA (US) + Transport Canada (CA) recalls + full decoded vehicle for the fixed sample vehicle. Same shape as paid GET /v1/recalls plus `sample: true` and `note`."},{"path":"/v1/sample/known-issues","method":"GET","params":[],"priceUsd":0,"description":"Free, no payment. LLM-clustered known-issues + reliability-aggregates block + full decoded vehicle for the fixed sample vehicle. Same shape as paid GET /v1/known-issues plus `sample: true` and `note`. A non-'ok' synthesis status is served as-is with 200 (samples never 503), still carrying the decode + reliability block."},{"path":"/v1/sample/purchase-costs","method":"GET","params":[],"priceUsd":0,"description":"Free, no payment. Returns `{ sample: true, note, ca, us }`: `ca` is the Ontario $25,000-private result (same shape as paid GET /v1/purchase-costs?country=CA) and `us` is the California $25,000-private result (same shape as paid GET /v1/purchase-costs?country=US)."}],"openApiUrl":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/openapi.json","description":"Vehicle Intelligence for AI agents. Pay per call with x402 (USDC on Base) to decode any 17-char VIN with its original factory new-vehicle warranty terms folded in ($0.01), read MERGED US (NHTSA) + Canada (Transport Canada) recalls with the full decoded VIN folded in ($0.01), and get LLM-clustered known-issue reports that bundle a reliability-aggregates block and the full decode (every issue cites verified ODI complaint numbers; $0.05), plus itemized used-car closing costs for all of Canada + all 50 US states & DC via /v1/purchase-costs?country=CA|US ($0.02). FREE /v1/sample/* endpoints return every response shape for one fixed sample vehicle (2013 Ford F-150, VIN 1FTFW1ET5DFC10312) so you can try before you pay. Every JSON object response carries a legal `disclaimer` field. Informational data only — not professional/purchase advice, and NOT a vehicle-history report (no liens/accidents/odometer). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.","capabilities":{"streaming":false,"extensions":[{"uri":"https://github.com/google-a2a/a2a-x402/v0.1","params":{"asset":"USDC","scheme":"exact","networks":["eip155:8453"],"x402Version":2},"required":false,"description":"Paid endpoints settle via the x402 protocol (on-chain USDC). On an unpaid paid-route request the server returns HTTP 402 whose accepts[] lists one exact USDC rail per network; sign one rail and retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (x402 V2) or X-PAYMENT (legacy). Free endpoints need no payment."}],"pushNotifications":false,"stateTransitionHistory":false},"authentication":{"schemes":["none","x402"],"description":"Free endpoints need no auth. Paid endpoints use the x402 V2 HTTP-402 flow: on an unpaid request the server returns a 402 whose accepts[] lists an exact USDC rail per network. Sign one rail and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header (x402 V2) or legacy X-PAYMENT header. Per-call pricing."},"termsOfService":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/terms.txt","protocolVersion":"0.3.0","documentationUrl":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/llms.txt","defaultInputModes":["application/json"],"defaultOutputModes":["application/json"],"preferredTransport":"JSONRPC"},"signature_status":"unsigned","signature_detail":"No card signature supplied","signature_key_url":null,"signature_checked_at":"2026-10-11T17:33:39.987337+00:00","domain_claimed_at":null,"domain_proof_checked_at":null,"source_name":"Agent Tools Catalog","source_url":"https://agent-tools.cloud","last_check":{"checked_at":"2026-10-11T17:33:39.987337+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},"also_published_at":[],"history_urls":["https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json"],"also_observed_in":[{"source_name":"Agent Tools Catalog","source_url":"https://agent-tools.cloud","last_seen":"2026-10-10T14:06:45.024855+00:00"}],"skills":[{"skill_id":"purchase-costs","name":"Itemized US + Canada used-vehicle closing costs (country=CA|US)","description":"Paid ($0.02 USDC via x402). Government-imposed closing costs of buying a used passenger vehicle, unified across both countries via `country=CA|US`. CA: any of Canada's 10 provinces + 3 territories (BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, NL, YT, NT, NU) — provincial/territorial sales tax (PST/RST/QST/HST or GST-only) plus transfer/registration/plate fees and inspection; tax is flat on the whole price at the highest bracket whose threshold the price meets (BC private 12% → 15% ≥ $125,000 → 20% ≥ $150,000); Alberta + the three territories levy no private-sale tax; dealer sales add 5% GST except in HST provinces (ON/NB/NS/PE/NL). US: any of the 50 states or DC — sales/use/excise tax, title, first-year registration, inspection, and (for dealer sales) a dealer documentation fee; special regimes handled automatically (DC tiered title-excise range, IL flat RUT-50 private-party table, SC 5% IMF capped at $500, and AK/AZ/HI/MT/NV/NH/OR no private-party sales tax). Each line carries a source URL and confidence. Figures verified 2026-07-04. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/purchase-costs.","tags":["vindex","purchase-costs"],"quality_warning":false},{"skill_id":"known-issues","name":"LLM-clustered named failure modes with verified ODI citations + reliability block + full decode","description":"Paid ($0.05 USDC via x402). Clusters NHTSA owner complaints into named failure modes; EVERY cited ODI number is programmatically validated against the input complaint set (hallucination-gated) and every issue carries ≥2 verified citations. Severity signals per issue are summed from the CITED complaints only. The response also bundles a `reliability` aggregates block (top components, severity signals, US/Canada recall counts incl. Canadian units affected — reliability was merged into known-issues on 2026-07-07), the full decoded `vehicle` (same payload as /v1/decode), and `complaintsAnalyzed`, the size of the recent-weighted stratified sample the LLM actually saw (vs `complaintCount`, the total). Refuses UNCHARGED below 15 complaints (returns 200 status:insufficient_data) — but still returns the decode + reliability block for free. 90-day cache. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/known-issues.","tags":["vindex","known-issues"],"quality_warning":false},{"skill_id":"recalls","name":"Merged US (NHTSA) + Canada (Transport Canada) recalls + full decoded vehicle","description":"Paid ($0.01 USDC via x402). Decodes the VIN and returns the FULL decoded vehicle (the same payload as /v1/decode is folded in here), then merges NHTSA (US) and Transport Canada (CA) recalls into one response — the only API combining both. 24h cache per source; stale served on failure. Canadian detail capped at the 25 most-recent recalls. OGL–Canada attribution. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/recalls.","tags":["vindex","recalls"],"quality_warning":false},{"skill_id":"decode","name":"Normalized NHTSA vPIC VIN decode","description":"Paid ($0.01 USDC via x402). Decodes a 17-char VIN through NHTSA vPIC and returns the normalized decoded vehicle (make/model/year/engine/body/…) with fetch provenance, PLUS a `warranty` block giving the ORIGINAL factory new-vehicle warranty terms (basic/powertrain/corrosion/roadside/EV-battery) keyed off the decoded make + model-year. Warranty terms are the manufacturer's original coverage as sold — NOT warranty-remaining, and NOT extended-warranty campaigns, recalls, or emissions warranties. The cheapest call when you only need the decode — the same `vehicle` object is also folded into /v1/recalls and /v1/known-issues. Compute-first / settle-after. Free fixed-sample preview of this exact shape: GET /v1/sample/decode.","tags":["vindex","decode"],"quality_warning":false},{"skill_id":"prepurchase","name":"Pre-purchase report: decode + recalls + known issues + ownership costs in one call","description":"Whole-job bundle for agents advising a vehicle purchase. One payment returns the normalized VIN decode, safety recalls, known-issue/reliability summary, and CA/US purchase+ownership cost estimate for the decoded vehicle. Equivalent to 4 separate paid calls. Composed in-process from the same data as /v1/decode, /v1/recalls, /v1/known-issues and /v1/purchase-costs (no extra upstream fan-out beyond those). The decode is computed FIRST — an invalid VIN or decode failure returns UNCHARGED (no settle). The response then settles only if the decode succeeded AND at least 2 of the 3 secondary sections (recalls, known-issues, purchase-costs) are available; otherwise it returns UNCHARGED { error: 'insufficient_sections', sections: {…} }. A section that failed but was still charged appears as sections.<name>:'unavailable' with the rest of the report intact. The cost section is a jurisdiction-level estimate (the bundle takes no price/province/state) — call GET /v1/purchase-costs for an exact itemized figure. Compute-first / settle-after. Each section carries its own fetch provenance.","tags":["vindex","prepurchase"],"quality_warning":false}],"quality_flags":[],"check_history":{"checks":13,"passed":13},"recent_checks":[{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-11T17:33:39.987337+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-11T15:11:42.630265+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-11T12:46:01.641332+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-11T10:38:13.359699+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-11T08:22:22.303092+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-11T06:07:31.668739+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-11T03:50:29.954097+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-11T01:33:12.088665+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-10T23:14:10.807892+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-10T20:56:59.515527+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-10T18:24:42.816864+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},{"card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","checked_at":"2026-10-10T16:07:04.730838+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"}],"endpoint_tls_check":{"checked_at":"2026-10-11T17:33:39.987337+00:00","success":true,"detail":"Valid TLS connection to advertised endpoint host; no A2A request sent"},"protocol_check":{"checked_at":"2026-10-11T15:11:42.630265+00:00","state":"a2a_response","http_status":200,"detail":"A2A task-not-found response to a read-only task lookup"},"x402_price_check":null,"events":[],"relationships":[],"verification":{"agent_card_url":"https://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json","last_successful_card_check":"2026-10-11T17:33:39.987337+00:00","latest_card_check":{"checked_at":"2026-10-11T17:33:39.987337+00:00","success":true,"http_status":200,"detail":"Agent Card validated"},"signature_status":"unsigned","signature_checked_at":"2026-10-11T17:33:39.987337+00:00","task_endpoint_tested":true,"task_execution_tested":false,"endpoint_tls_checked_at":"2026-10-11T17:33:39.987337+00:00","endpoint_tls_reachable":true,"protocol_check_state":"a2a_response","protocol_checked_at":"2026-10-11T15:11:42.630265+00:00","provider_identity_verified":false,"domain_claimed_at":null,"domain_proof_checked_at":null}}