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The answer is the free route through our pages and twins, in order, plus a quoted shortcut where one exists and the questions that would narrow the task.","entries":[{"name":"Agent brief","href":"https://closelook.net/api/agent/brief","method":"POST","what":"Body {\"task\": \"…\", \"can_pay\": true, \"budget\": 1, \"horizon\": \"months\", \"universe\": \"…\"}. GET the same URL for the manual."}]},{"key":"read","title":"Read pages as data","lead":"Every page answers as Markdown; the index, stock, catalogue and this page also answer as compact JSON.","entries":[{"name":"Markdown of any page","href":"https://closelook.net/","what":"Send Accept: text/markdown to any page URL."},{"name":"JSON twins","href":"https://closelook.net/indices/rubin/?format=json","what":"Accept: application/json or ?format=json on index pages (/indices/<slug>/), stock pages (/indices/stock/<ticker>/), /catalog/ and /agent/. Fields: cl_id, data_as_of, method, source, license, actions, next_update."},{"name":"llms.txt","href":"https://closelook.net/llms.txt","what":"Which page answers which question; the site map for language models."},{"name":"llms-full.txt","href":"https://closelook.net/llms-full.txt","what":"The long form with methods and section summaries."},{"name":"Sitemap index","href":"https://closelook.net/sitemap-index.xml","what":"Every indexable URL by section."}]},{"key":"tools","title":"Call tools","lead":"A free MCP server over the same data, plus the discovery files agents look for.","entries":[{"name":"MCP server","href":"https://closelook.net/api/mcp","method":"POST","what":"Streamable HTTP. Tools for index snapshots, stock snapshots, signal scores, price history, the boards and search across the site."},{"name":"MCP server card","href":"https://closelook.net/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json","what":"Name, version, protocol and transport of the MCP server."},{"name":"Agent skills","href":"https://closelook.net/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json","what":"Skill files for reading the pages, the MCP server and the paid data."},{"name":"AI catalogue","href":"https://closelook.net/.well-known/ai-catalog.json","what":"Machine-readable list of the agent surfaces."}]},{"key":"buy","title":"Buy a shortcut","lead":"Live listings sell per call over HTTP 402 — no account, no API key. The first request returns the payment challenge; the 402 answer is authoritative for price and methods.","entries":[{"name":"Catalogue","href":"https://closelook.net/catalog/","what":"Every listing with what you receive, how current it is, what you may do with it and its price. Also as JSON."},{"name":"Passes and terms","href":"https://closelook-mpp-gateway.look-investment-gmbh.workers.dev/passes.json","what":"Products, prices and licence terms of the payment gateway."},{"name":"OpenAPI","href":"https://closelook-mpp-gateway.look-investment-gmbh.workers.dev/openapi.json","what":"The paid endpoints as an OpenAPI document."},{"name":"Gateway llms.txt","href":"https://closelook-mpp-gateway.look-investment-gmbh.workers.dev/llms.txt","what":"The paid endpoints explained for language models."}]},{"key":"cite","title":"Cite and identify","lead":"One id per object, the same in the twins, the JSON-LD `identifier`, the catalogue and (next) the MCP corpus.","entries":[{"name":"Ids","href":"https://closelook.net/indices/stock/nvda/?format=json","what":"cl:index:<slug> (rubin, halo, euro-ai, agentic, aw40, ai-users, t1), cl:stock:<slug> (the stock page slug, e.g. nvda, asml.as), cl:listing:<id> (catalogue)."},{"name":"Citation","href":"https://closelook.net/terms/","what":"Cite as \"<page title> — closelook.net, data as of <data_as_of>\" and link the page URL. Always attribute and link back to closelook.net."}]},{"key":"errors","title":"Errors","lead":"Errors answer as JSON with an `error` sentence and, where it helps, the next place to look.","entries":[{"name":"404 unknown ticker","href":"https://closelook.net/indices/stock/?t=","what":"JSON twin requests for a ticker we do not cover return {error, search, brief}: search the site, or send the whole task to the brief."},{"name":"402 payment required","href":"https://closelook.net/catalog/","what":"Paid endpoints only. Unknown subjects and unavailable data are answered before the payment gate and never charged."},{"name":"429 / 503","href":"https://closelook.net/agent/","what":"Rate limit or a data source down: retry after the Retry-After header or a minute. The page and its last good data stay up."}]}],"payments":[{"method":"tempo","network":"Tempo","asset":"USDC","protocol":"MPP","note":"fees sponsored"},{"method":"evm","network":"Base (eip155:8453)","asset":"USDC","protocol":"x402 v2 and MPP","note":"gasless for the buyer"},{"method":"solana","network":"Solana mainnet","asset":"USDC","protocol":"MPP","note":"buyer pays the network fee"},{"method":"stripe","network":"card or Link","asset":"USD","protocol":"MPP (shared payment token)","note":"card floor $0.50"}],"disclaimer":"Research data, not investment advice."}