@velinussage/locus-agent-skill 0.1.9 → 0.1.18

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  [![skills.sh](https://skills.sh/b/velinussage/locus-agent-skill)](https://skills.sh/velinussage/locus-agent-skill)
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- Install the Locus agent skill for agents that need cited property and local-government context over MCP, REST, A2A, free tools, and x402 paid reports.
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+ Install three Locus agent skills: the general MCP/REST/A2A capability guide, the opt-in surrounding-area purchase workflow, and the property-tax protest workflow.
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  Locus returns awareness and verification steps, not a verdict. Do not use it to score, rank, screen, value, predict, or label a person, property, block, or neighborhood as safe or unsafe.
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  npx @velinussage/locus-agent-skill add
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  ```
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- By default this writes `locus-agent-tools/SKILL.md` to `$CODEX_HOME/skills` or `~/.codex/skills`.
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+ By default this writes `locus-agent-tools/`, `locus-surrounding-area-analysis/`, and `locus-property-tax-protest/` to `$CODEX_HOME/skills` or `~/.codex/skills`. The general public skill routes relevant requests to the specialist workflows; it does not turn ordinary Locus discovery into a paid flow.
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  Options:
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  }
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  ```
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- ## What the skill teaches agents
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+ ## What the skills teach agents
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- - 23+ national free tools work for geocodable US addresses, with 51 free tools total in the live catalog.
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+ - The live free catalog currently exposes 90 tools, including 49 national free lanes.
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  - `locus_place_facts` is the best first call when supported.
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  - `locus_lane_availability` shows national, local, varies, not-covered, and degraded lanes before payment.
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  - Free tools stay read-only and cited.
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- - Seven paid endpoints use x402 and require explicit user authorization: place report, 10-50 address batch, trend brief, policy brief, before-you-sign bundle, environmental context, and residential property tax.
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+ - The property-tax protest workflow keeps deadline, filing-guide, evidence, browser handoff, and published-outcome facts separate from the owner's own filing and value position.
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+ - Paid endpoints use live x402 discovery, may offer USDC on Base and Solana, and require explicit user authorization. Agents choose one complete `accepts[]` entry.
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+ - The surrounding-area workflow requires two separate approvals: $0.10 for the reusable JSON packet, then $0.15 for an eligible HTML/PDF report within 24 hours. Packet and report retrieval are proof-gated for 90 days.
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  Docs: <https://docs.locus.report/skill.md>
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  ## Paid endpoint surface
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- The live paid index is authoritative: <https://api.locus.report/.well-known/ai-tool/index.json>. Current endpoints are:
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+ The live paid index is authoritative: <https://api.locus.report/.well-known/ai-tool/index.json>. Selected endpoints are:
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  | Endpoint | Current price | Notes |
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  | `POST /api/locus-place-report` | `$0.05` | Compiled cited property-context artifact. |
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- | `POST /api/locus-place-report-batch` | `$0.25` | Async 10-50 address portfolio job, one settlement. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-place-report-batch` | `$0.25` | Async 3-50 address portfolio job, one settlement. |
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  | `POST /api/locus-local-trend-brief` | `$0.05` | Permit, 311, and code-case local-change brief where source coverage is strong enough. |
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  | `POST /api/locus-local-policy-brief` | `$0.07` | Property-relevant bills, agendas, ordinances, tax, fee, bond, housing, and permit-change context. |
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  | `POST /api/locus-before-you-sign` | `$0.07` | Pre-decision bundle over parcel, trend, and policy components. |
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  | `POST /api/locus-environmental-context` | `$0.05` | Address-level EPA TRI/RCRA/SDWIS/radon context ranked by distance where possible. |
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- | `POST /api/locus-property-tax` | `$0.49` | Residential property-tax artifact with assessed value, annual tax, history, effective rate, and provenance. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-property-tax` | `$0.05` | Residential property-tax artifact with assessed value, annual tax, history, effective rate, and provenance. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-surrounding-area-analysis` | `$0.10` | Stored, bounded JSON evidence packet. Charge-suppressed unless the subject, surrounding-parcel foundation, and another component complete. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-surrounding-area-report` | `$0.15` | One HTML/PDF rendering of an eligible packet; no research rerun. |
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+ | Six paid-only atomic REST routes | `$0.01` each | Workplace jobs, Wikipedia, Commons metadata, PFAS, NEI, and electricity. No free, MCP, or A2A counterpart. |
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  Unsupported, discovery-only, commercial, or insufficient-data cases return free diagnostics instead of charging where applicable.
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  const packageRoot = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..");
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- const bundledSkillDir = path.join(packageRoot, "skill", "locus-agent-tools");
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- const skillName = "locus-agent-tools";
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+ const bundledSkillsRoot = path.join(packageRoot, "skill");
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+ const skillNames = ["locus-agent-tools", "locus-surrounding-area-analysis", "locus-property-tax-protest"];
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  --target <dir> Skills root to install into. Defaults to $CODEX_HOME/skills or ~/.codex/skills.
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  `;
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+ | `POST /api/locus-workplace-employment-context` | `$0.01` | Commercial site selection or tenant diligence needs Census LODES workplace job totals and broad sector mix within 250-5,000 m of a selected site. | Missing, stale, unavailable, or empty state snapshots return `charged:false`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-wikimedia-commons-area-context` | `$0.01` | A paid flyer, narrative, or visual-research workflow needs nearby media license metadata and attribution leads. Metadata is not reuse permission. | No eligible media or source failure returns `charged:false`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-evaluation-packet` | `$0.35` | A lender needs the evaluation-support packet in Interagency Appraisal and Evaluation Guidelines order (parcel, zoning, permits, transfers, HPI, SFHDF flood inputs, ASTM E1527-21 screen, tax distress, treasurer status) with every source stamped. States no value. | Unresolved point or no property-description and hazard fact returns the packet with `charged: false`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-electricity-context` | `$0.01` | Data-center, industrial, energy-development, or power-sensitive site screens need HIFLD line proximity plus EIA state price context before utility diligence. | An unresolved point or failure of both source components returns `charged:false`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-record-batch` | `$0.05` | A portfolio or any-jurisdiction screen needs up to 6 free record lanes across 2-25 addresses as ONE async job keyed by address; poll `statusUrl`. | Unresolved addresses are listed and never charged; `charged: false` when no address resolves or no valid lane is named. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-surrounding-area-analysis` | `$0.10` | Buyer needs one stored multi-lane surrounding packet: topology-aware parcels, zoning, development, permits, legislation, capital/transport, environmental baseline, optional aerial. | Unstable subject, missing surrounding-parcel foundation, or under two completed components returns `charged:false`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-place-report` | `$0.05` | Agent needs one compiled cited property-context artifact for an address or ZIP. The artifact confirms the matched subject, lists every source, and carries an honest coverage ledger. After confirmed x402 settlement or seller-escrow, the paid parcel-financials lane may include the assessor owner-of-record name for the same exact parcel (cited, not a contact). Canonical storage stays owner-free; settled replay refreshes the official field. | Unsupported or discovery-only places return no-charge diagnostics. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-property-update` | `$0.10` | Agent needs an async exact-address decision check of recent or scheduled official-record changes, nearby activity, and physical comparability, with a shareable report, PDF, and temporary video. | Ambiguous, thin, or unsupported inputs return `charged:false`; on `clarification_required`, confirm and resend `retryInput`. Poll the job and, once `flyerReady:true`, use `flyerHandoff` immediately without waiting for video. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-solar-property-comparison` | `$1.09` | Agent has exactly three known addresses and wants parcel-bound, dated Google Solar roof metrics beside utility candidates, cited solar-program rows, and one shared GridPulse reference. Input: `{ "addresses": ["...", "...", "..."], "financialZip": "27312", "systemKw": 8 }`. Results stay in input order for side-by-side review; Locus does not select a winner or recommend a property. | Fewer than two attributable Google Solar results return `charged:false`. The price includes up to four Turnkey signatures at the conservative Pay as You Go rate. GridPulse figures remain historical context. Licensed provider data is private, `no-store`, and excluded from public pinning. x402 only. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-three-property-buyer-comparison` | `$2.49` | Agent has exactly three known addresses and wants non-PII RentCast property/listing lookups, ZIP market context, bounded Locus public records, reusable work items, deterministic cross-property differences, and validated `nextCalls[]` for all three properties. | Invalid, unresolved, or duplicate resolved subjects fail before downstream spend. The price includes up to nine Turnkey signatures at the conservative Pay as You Go rate. Input order is preserved. No winner, valuation, prediction, or purchase recommendation. Private, `no-store`, x402 only. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-owner-cost-review` | `$0.25` | Owner or representative has a reassessment or cost question and needs one property/tax trajectory beside cited programs, published windows, work items, and validated `nextCalls[]` with exact arguments and urgency. | An unresolved subject fails before downstream spend. The price includes one conservatively priced Turnkey signature. The response does not infer why tax changed, determine eligibility, or advise an appeal. Private, `no-store`, x402 only. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-rental-operations-brief` | `$0.79` | Property operator needs a non-PII property lookup, third-party rent estimate, ZIP rental market, HUD/public-record context, work items, a deterministic rent-to-market difference, and validated `nextCalls[]`. | An unresolved subject fails before downstream spend. The price includes up to three Turnkey signatures at the conservative Pay as You Go rate. Comparable addresses and listing contacts are removed. No tenant screening, rent-setting advice, return calculation, or investment recommendation. Private, `no-store`, x402 only. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-property-flyer` | `$0.99` | After obtaining a proof-gated PDF URL + expiry from a report workflow, the agent wants a general 4:5 property shareable whose top-right QR opens that PDF. Pass the property-update job's copy-ready `flyerHandoff` as the flyer-specific `reportHandoff`; do not synthesize a proof or reuse the video render contract. A licensed subject image is optional. Brand it with `brand.logo`, `brand.contact` (name, brokerage, license, phone, email, website), and `brand.headshot`. | Missing runtime, usable research, imagery, or premium model output returns `charged:false`. The price includes one conservative Turnkey signature when StableEnrich research runs. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-local-fiscal-context` | `$0.05` | Agent needs separate cited local-government fiscal/audit observations and a bounded five-year trend from an offline verified snapshot. Peer comparison remains disabled until Locus can verify complete official cohorts. | Missing, stale, or thin snapshots return `charged:false`; never returns an integrity, corruption, government-quality, credit, or place score. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-before-you-sign` | `$0.07` | Agent needs a pre-decision bundle over parcel, trend, and policy components for one street address. Optional `context` and `followUp` frame the output without changing data access. After confirmed x402 settlement or seller-escrow, `parcelFacts` may include the assessor owner-of-record name for the same exact parcel (cited, not a contact). | Weak component readiness returns a no-charge `coverage_diagnostic` with byte-stable `componentReadiness`, one-sentence `componentReadinessDetail` reasons for trend/parcel/policy, and `suggestedAlternative`. Charged bundles put the same detail next to `componentStatus`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-owner-action-brief` | `$0.05` | Agent needs one cited bundle of owner programs, exact program dates, the state appeal rule, tax-calendar framing and county pointer, the FEMA LOMA screen when applicable, and the special-valuation parcel screen. Request body: `{ "address": "...", "noticeDate": "2026-04-01", "withinDays": 120 }`; `noticeDate` and `withinDays` are optional. | Fewer than two substantive sections return `owner_action_brief_diagnostic` with `charged:false`. The brief lists programs and rules; it does not determine eligibility or recommend action. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-owner-programs` | `$0.01` | Agent needs the free owner-program lookup through a top-level paid route, including curated rows and statewide derived tax/appeal rows. | No registry or derived row returns `charged:false`. The same lookup remains free as `locus_owner_programs`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-mitigation-incentives` | `$0.01` | Agent needs cited mitigation, discount-mandate, flood-map, or flood-protection program rows. | No program row returns `charged:false`. The same lookup remains free as `locus_mitigation_incentives`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-utility-credits` | `$0.01` | Agent needs cited stormwater, lead-line, sidewalk, or flood-protection credit rows. | No program row returns `charged:false`. The same lookup remains free as `locus_utility_credits`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-fraud-alert-pointer` | `$0.01` | Agent needs a registered county property-fraud alert row rather than the generic recorder search pointer. | The generic pointer alone returns `charged:false`. The same lookup remains free as `locus_fraud_alert_pointer`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-program-windows` | `$0.01` | Agent needs exact upcoming or recently passed dates printed in owner-program registry rows. | No dated item returns `charged:false`. The same lookup remains free as `locus_program_windows`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-special-valuation-screen` | `$0.01` | Agent needs parcel acreage plus cited special-valuation, historic, or solar rows. | An unresolved parcel or no program row returns `charged:false`. The same lookup remains free as `locus_special_valuation_screen`. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-appeal-window` | `$0.01` | Agent needs cited appeal/protest date arithmetic for an address, two-letter state code, full state name, or covered locality. | An uncovered state/locality returns `charged:false`. The same lookup remains free as `locus_appeal_window`. |
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- | `POST /api/locus-property-tax` | `$0.49` | Agent needs a residential US property-tax artifact with assessed value, annual tax, tax history, effective rate, and provenance. | Commercial, uncovered, or unresolvable addresses return `charged:false` diagnostics pointing to the free `.gov` tax lanes or place report. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-air-quality-history` | `$0.05` | Agent needs nearby EPA AQS annual monitor summaries, NOAA HMS smoke-over-point days, and separately labeled CDC modeled PM2.5 gap-fill. | No substantive monitor/smoke/modeled rows or missing mirror coverage returns `charged:false`; never substitutes missing years with “good air.” |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-property-tax` | `$0.05` | Agent needs a residential US property-tax artifact with assessed value, annual tax, tax history, effective rate, and provenance. | Commercial, uncovered, or unresolvable addresses return `charged:false` diagnostics pointing to the free `.gov` tax lanes or place report. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-rent-estimate` | `$0.05` | Agent needs a third-party residential long-term rent estimate, range, comparable count, and HUD FMR area anchor. | No estimate, no comparables, commercial use, missing key, or uncovered inputs return `charged:false`. Not a Locus-authored valuation. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-valuation-challenge` | `$0.10` | Agent wants to stress-test a caller-supplied property price or `source: "assessment_notice"` figure against cited sale, parcel, permit, hazard, tax, zoning, policy, and same-roll assessment-uniformity evidence without Locus creating a price. | Fewer than two substantive cited sections return `charged:false`; uniformity needs at least five same-class parcels to count. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-road-access` | `$0.05` | Agent needs nearest mapped public-road proximity from an address/point as an early access screen. | Unresolved address or total source failure returns `charged:false`. Never a legal-access, easement, frontage, or landlocked determination. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-power-water-evidence-pack` | `$0.05` | Agent needs pre-development proximity/context from HIFLD/EIA power, EPA public-water-system, and FCC broadband sources. | Missing substantive evidence suppresses charge. Never claims capacity, interconnection, service availability, timing, or cost. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-landslide-diligence` | `$0.05` | Agent needs separate USGS documented inventory history and exact source-native n10 model-cell evidence. | Unless both components answer, returns `charged:false`. Never a probability, parcel stability finding, engineering assessment, or safety label. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-permit-closeout-check` | `$0.05` | Agent needs exact-subject permit status plus source-published closeout or occupancy-document evidence. Registry coverage: Raleigh, unincorporated Wake County, Durham, Austin, Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City. It accepts an address or up to 25 jurisdiction-scoped `parcelIds`. The coverage label is generated from the source registry. | Uncovered, uncertain, unavailable, unpublished, and no-exact-match states are charge-suppressed. Not condition, compliance, suite/use permission, or closing approval. |
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+ | `POST /api/locus-transaction-follow-up` | `$0.10` | Agent needs one explicit homebuyer, land-investor, developer-predevelopment, commercial-tenant, or renovation-planning packet with cited handoffs. For renovation use `intent: "renovation_planning"`, `transactionStage: "pre_construction"`, `projectArchetype: "residential"`, and a short caller-supplied `projectType`. The profile checks recorded parcel facts, exact-subject permits, USDA basement and shallow-excavation soil interpretations, sampled terrain, FEMA flood, mapped wetlands, and EPA county radon context. | Profile-specific component/group thresholds control chargeability. Assessor totals never establish above-grade or finished-basement area. The result is not a feasibility, condition, drainage-design, permit-requirement, cost, or valuation conclusion. Thin evidence is charge-free. |
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+ | Environmental records screen for a Phase I file | `locus_environmental_records_screen` | `{ "address": "1500 Market St, Philadelphia, PA" }` | NPL, cleanup, RCRA, UST/LUST, and TRI lists at ASTM E1527-21 search distances with records returned, records within distance, nearest distance, and per-list status. Government-records step only; never a Phase I. |
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  | Nearby flood gauges | `locus_flood_gauges` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 20000 }` | Nearby USGS/NWS gauges, latest stage/flow observations when available, threshold metadata, source links. |
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  | Environmental history bundle | `locus_environmental_history` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "state": "MT", "county": "Park County" }` | EPA TRI, RCRA, SDWIS water systems, radon zone, and event-history verify links. Read `radonHeadline` and `addressProximity` first; `countyBackground` and legacy county fields are broad context only. |
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  | Cleanup sites | `locus_cleanup_sites` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 5000 }` | EPA Superfund, NPL, brownfield, or cleanup-site records nearby with program/status fields and official profile links. |
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+ | Underground storage tanks and leaking-tank releases | `locus_underground_storage_tanks` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 1500 }` | Nearby EPA UST Finder facility records and reported leaking-tank releases, kept separate with per-component availability. A registered tank is not a leak, and proximity does not establish parcel contamination, exposure, or liability; an unavailable component is not a verified zero. |
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+ | Groundwater monitoring-well context | `locus_groundwater_context` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 5000 }` | Nearby USGS monitoring locations, aquifer codes/names, well-construction depth distributions, and static water-level observations, returned in distance bands without location names or exact coordinates. Not a domestic-well depth, yield, potability, contamination, or cost prediction. |
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+ | EPA Sole Source Aquifer designation | `locus_sole_source_aquifer` | `{ "address": "..." }` | EPA mapped designation containment, designation names, and Federal Register citations. A designation means EPA reviews federally funded projects in the area under SDWA 1424(e); it is not a contamination or water-quality finding and does not itself restrict a private owner. |
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+ | Non-UCMR PFAS multimedia records | `locus_pfas_multimedia_nearby` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 10000 }` | EPA PFAS Analytic Tools environmental-media, wastewater, TRI, Superfund/federal-site, and industry records from reviewed mirror exports. Measured/reported records stay separate from potential-handling flags; proximity does not establish source, migration, exposure, or parcel contamination. |
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+ | Combined-sewer outfalls and reported events | `locus_sewer_overflow_nearby` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 5000, "lookbackDays": 365 }` | EPA's CSO outfall inventory plus separately labeled sewer-overflow/bypass event reports. An outfall is not an event, and an event-stream miss is not proof of no overflow. |
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  | Drinking-water violations | `locus_drinking_water_violations` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "state": "MT", "county": "Park County" }` or `{ "pwsids": ["MT0000000"] }` | SDWIS/ECHO violation and enforcement rows, system ids, caveats that this is not proof of tap-water quality. |
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+ | 2026 conforming loan limits | `locus_loan_limits` | `{ "address": "...", "units": 1, "proposedLoanAmountUsd": 900000 }` or `{ "state": "AZ", "county": "Cochise" }` | FHFA county limits for one to four units and optional arithmetic against a caller-supplied amount. Eligibility ceiling context only, not qualification, approval, value, or a recommendation. |
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+ | Owner mortgage calendar | `locus_owner_mortgage_calendar` | `{ "originationDate": "2026-01-01", "originalValueUsd": 500000, "originalLoanAmountUsd": 450000, "annualRatePercent": 6, "loanType": "conventional", "forcePlacedNoticeDate": "2026-09-01" }` | Twelve cited statute and agency fact cards plus dates computed only from caller inputs. Not legal advice, qualification, approval odds, value opinion, or a recommendation. |
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+ | Current drought status and recent history | `locus_drought_status` | `{ "address": "...", "weeks": 8 }` | Weekly US Drought Monitor county percentages by D0-D4 category plus recent weeks. County-level drought mapping does not establish parcel water supply, well yield, current utility restrictions, or a forecast. |
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  | HUD fair-market rents | `locus_fair_market_rents` | `{ "stateFips": "30", "countyFips3": "067", "year": 2026 }` | HUD FMR values by bedroom count and county/FIPS basis. |
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  | Qualified Opportunity Zone | `locus_opportunity_zone` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 35.22, "longitude": -80.84 }` | Whether the point is in a Treasury/IRS Qualified Opportunity Zone tract, cited to HUD. A `not_designated` zero-hit is a valid designation answer, not a coverage failure. Not tax or investment advice. |
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  | Seismic design parameters | `locus_seismic_design` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 35.22, "longitude": -80.84 }` | USGS NEHRP/ASCE 7 seismic design parameters for a point. Hazard data only, not a safety verdict. |
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  | County unemployment trend | `locus_unemployment` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 35.22, "longitude": -80.84 }` | Recent BLS LAUS county unemployment trend. Reported statistic only, not an area-quality label. |
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  | State house-price index | `locus_house_price_index` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 35.22, "longitude": -80.84 }` | Latest state-level FHFA All-Transactions House Price Index and year-over-year change via FRED. Not an appraisal or value estimate. |
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+ | Broadband availability map | `locus_broadband_check` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 35.22, "longitude": -80.84 }` | Official FCC National Broadband Map link and current data vintage. Provider-reported availability; no fast/slow/good/bad verdict. |
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+ | Mapped wetland overlap/proximity | `locus_wetland_context` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 1500 }` | FWS NWI mapped-wetland overlap and nearby polygon evidence. Never a delineation, jurisdictional determination, parcel boundary, or permit decision. |
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+ | Elevation and sampled terrain | `locus_terrain_profile` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 35.22, "longitude": -80.84 }` | USGS EPQS/3DEP elevation plus sampled cardinal terrain profile/slopes. Never a survey, drainage, grading, or engineering conclusion. |
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+ | Transportation-noise proximity facts | `locus_noise_proximity` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 35.22, "longitude": -80.84 }` | Straight-line proximity to public-use airports and mapped major-road/rail centerlines. No decibel estimate or quiet/loud/safe/unsafe label. |
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  | Nearby places and amenities | `locus_nearby_places` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 800 }` | OpenStreetMap nearby amenities/places with categories, distance, and OSM provenance. |
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  | Nearest emergency services and utilities | `locus_public_utilities` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 5000 }` | Nearest mapped OpenStreetMap fire station, hospital/clinic, police, fire hydrant, electric substation, and water tower with straight-line distances and counts. Hydrants/infrastructure are often unnamed and still reported. Mapped facility distances only, never a fire-protection rating, insurance determination, or safety verdict. |
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+ | County Medicare fee-for-service spending | `locus_medicare_spending` | `{ "address": "..." }` | Latest/prior CMS county aggregate: Original Medicare fee-for-service beneficiary count, actual and standardized per-capita payment, and standardized year-over-year change. Not a provider price, individual bill, premium, care-quality/access measure, health inference, score, or property signal. |
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+ | Aggregate traffic-crash context | `locus_traffic_crash_context` | `{ "address": "...", "radiiMeters": [200, 500, 1000], "lookbackYears": 3 }` | Small-cell-suppressed police-reported crash counts by official severity and mode. Registry coverage: Chicago all-reported, Virginia reportable-threshold, North Carolina nonmotorist and K+A subsets kept separate, Pikes Peak region PPACG reportable-threshold records for 2020-2024, plus nationwide FARS fatal-only fallback. No raw rows, examples, exact points, party details, score, forecast, or place verdict. |
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+ | Landslide history + susceptibility context | `locus_landslide_context` | `{ "address": "...", "searchRadiusMeters": 1000 }` or `{ "latitude": 35.78, "longitude": -78.64 }` | USGS v3 bounded inventory point/polygon records plus a separately labeled exact source-native n10 90-meter cell where the active snapshot publishes one. Inventory no-match, model out-of-footprint, stale/unavailable snapshot, and source failure remain distinct. The 0–81 model value is not probability or parcel engineering. |
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  | FEMA NFIP flood-insurance claims (county) | `locus_nfip_claims` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 25.76, "longitude": -80.19 }` | FEMA OpenFEMA NFIP redacted flood-insurance claims aggregated to the county: total claim count, total paid, year range, and top rated flood zones. Redacted (no address/PII), county-level historical fact, never a prediction or risk score. |
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  | Historical wildfire perimeters | `locus_wildfire_history` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 38.6, "longitude": -122.5 }` | WFIGS interagency historical wildfire perimeters within about 5 miles: incident name, category, acres, discovery year. Realized-event records (complements the modeled `locus_wildfire_risk`); most non-Western points return none, an honest `out_of_coverage`. |
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  | Soil context and site constraints | `locus_soil_context` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 35.9, "longitude": -78.9 }` | USDA NRCS SSURGO soil suitability at a point: NRCS engineering ratings (Very/Somewhat/Not limited, with limiting features) for dwellings, septic absorption fields, and shallow excavations, plus drainage, hydric, slope, shrink-swell (linear extensibility), taxonomic order, and farmland class. Soil-map-unit-level screening context for septic/foundation/drainage/buildability, never a geotechnical, perc-test, permit, or safe/unsafe/buildable verdict. Developed/urban points often return `out_of_coverage` (no soil component). |
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  | Data-center or large-development watch prompts | `locus_data_center_watch` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "state": "NC", "county": "Wake County", "municipality": "Raleigh" }` | Bounded official-source query pack and lead-discovery prompts for large projects, data centers, utility/water/planning sources. |
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+ | Local ordinance and storefront-process leads | `locus_ordinance_leads` | `{ "address": "...", "topics": ["occupancy", "fee_schedule", "signage", "sidewalk_cafe", "published_review_timeline"] }` or `{ "place": "Raleigh, NC" }` | Jurisdiction-locked first-party query pack and reviewed process pointers. Numeric fees/timelines require an exact dated official source; published timelines are guidance, not predictions. Leads only, no restricted code body, not legal advice. |
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  | Transportation projects and traffic counts | `locus_transportation_context` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 2000 }` | State DOT funded projects, traffic-count stations, routes, statuses where wired. |
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  | Transit stops and routes | `locus_transit_context` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 400 }` | Transit stops, routes, shelter/ADA fields, headways where supported. Wired transit agencies span about 15 metros: New York (MTA), Los Angeles (LA Metro), Houston (METRO), Charlotte (CATS), Miami-Dade, Nashville (WeGo), Washington DC (WMATA), Dallas (DART), Philadelphia (SEPTA), Atlanta (MARTA), San Antonio (VIA), Seattle (King County Metro), Phoenix (Valley Metro), Denver (RTD), and Raleigh (GoRaleigh). Other areas return no wired transit lane. |
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  | Recent nearby parcel transfers | `locus_parcel_transfers` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 1500, "monthsBack": 12 }` | Recorded sales/transfers near the point where parcel-sale sources are wired. |
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  | Property-tax rates | `locus_property_tax_rates` | `{ "place": "Wake County, NC" }`, `{ "place": "Nashville, TN" }`, `{ "place": "Austin, TX" }`, or `{ "place": "Tampa, FL" }` | Adopted rate components and jurisdiction basis from official tables where wired: NC statewide plus selected Nashville/Davidson TN, Austin/Travis TX, and Tampa/Hillsborough FL adapters. Other jurisdictions return an official-source prompt pack, not a server-emitted rate number. |
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  | Property-tax estimate | `locus_property_tax_estimate` | `{ "address": "..." }` | Estimated annual property tax from assessed value and NC rates where wired. Computed estimates are NC-only; out-of-NC addresses fail closed and may return official-source prompt guidance. Not a valuation. |
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  | Paid residential property-tax report | `locus-property-tax` | `POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-property-tax` with `{ "address": "600 E 4th St, Charlotte, NC" }` | x402-paid residential property-tax artifact: assessed value, annual tax, tax history, effective rate, and provenance from RentCast aggregator records. Commercial or uncovered addresses return `charged:false` diagnostics. Not an official tax bill or valuation. |
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  | Tax calendar | `locus_tax_calendar` | `{ "county": "Harris County, TX" }` or `{ "address": "..." }` | State property-tax statutory framework (cited to the state tax code) for NC, TX, CA, FL, NY, plus the official county source pointer and a current-year live-lookup prompt for the volatile per-cycle dates; verified prior-cycle county dates where curated (NC). |
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+ | Tax-sale and redemption calendar | `locus_tax_sale_calendar` | `{ "place": "Los Angeles, CA", "asOf": "2026-09-03", "withinDays": 120 }` | Cited tax-sale and redemption rules plus exact published dates. A row with only past dates returns `needsRefresh` and is never called the next sale. No parcel sale, delinquency, title, or redemption determination. |
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+ | Appeal or protest deadline arithmetic | `locus_appeal_window` | `{ "address": "...", "noticeDate": "2026-04-01" }` or `{ "state": "Texas", "noticeDate": "2026-04-01" }` | Accepts an address, two-letter state code, or full state name. Returns the cited statutory rule and deterministic UTC date arithmetic for TX, GA, AZ, FL, NC, CO, OH, NJ, WA, CA, NY, IL, MI, TN, and Philadelphia, PA. Never advises whether to appeal. |
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+ | Published appeal outcomes | `locus_appeal_outcomes` | `{ "address": "...", "taxYear": 2025 }` or `{ "state": "Illinois", "county": "Cook", "township": "Evanston", "taxYear": 2025 }` | Accepts an address, two-letter state code, or full state name. Coverage includes Cook County Board of Review and Assessor aggregates, NYC Tax Commission published granted reductions, the Texas Comptroller statewide 2024 district survey, and registered official pointers. Historical records only, never a parcel forecast. |
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+ | Owner programs and windows | `locus_owner_programs` | `{ "place": "Fort Lauderdale, FL" }` or `{ "address": "...", "classes": ["early_payment_discount"], "includeDerived": true }` | Matching curated money-action and program rows, cited statewide tax and appeal rows, nationwide rows, coverage counts, and a jurisdiction-locked official-source query pack. No individual determination, recommendation, or computed savings estimate. |
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+ | Mitigation incentives | `locus_mitigation_incentives` | `{ "place": "Florida", "hazard": "wind" }` | Cited mitigation grants, insurance discount rules and programs, disaster-assistance windows, flood-map correction, and flood-protection rebate rows, plus next checks in the existing hazard tools. |
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+ | Utility credits and cost shares | `locus_utility_credits` | `{ "place": "Chicago, IL" }` | Cited stormwater and utility credits, energy rebates, lead service-line programs, sidewalk cost shares, and flood-protection rebate rows, with official-source search prompts for gaps. |
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+ | Electric utility and rebate candidates | `locus_electric_utility_resolver` | `{ "address": "..." }` | Every containing HIFLD retail-service-territory candidate, EIA utility ID and ownership type, source vintage, and rebates joined only by registered utility ID. Overlaps stay visible. Never proof of service, capacity, tariff, interconnection, timing, reliability, or cost. |
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+ | Water leak-adjustment rules | `locus_water_utility_leak_adjustment_rules` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "confirmedPwsid": "NC0160010" }` | EPA public-water-system candidates and cited Chicago, Charlotte, or Philadelphia policy only after a caller-confirmed PWSID or provider-supplied official boundary. Modeled matches remain candidates. No account eligibility or bill calculation. |
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+ | Owner-facing permit rules | `locus_permit_rules` | `{ "place": "Seattle, WA", "includeNotVerified": true }` | Field-level cited exemption, fee, expiration, extension, and waiver research for Seattle, Austin, and verified Chicago fields. Missing fields stay `not_verified`, never `none`. Not a property-specific permit determination. |
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+ | Property-fraud alert pointer | `locus_fraud_alert_pointer` | `{ "place": "Miami-Dade County, FL" }` | Cited local, state, and national title-protection rows in that order. If no local row is registered, neutral county-recorder search guidance follows those rows; it does not claim that the county operates an alert. |
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+ | Program dates | `locus_program_windows` | `{ "place": "Berkeley, CA", "asOf": "2026-09-02", "withinDays": 120 }` | Exact dates from matching registry rows, split into upcoming and recently passed windows through deterministic date filtering. |
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+ | Special valuation screen | `locus_special_valuation_screen` | `{ "address": "..." }` | The parcel's public acreage and land-use code plus cited state special-valuation, historic-incentive, and solar-exemption rows. It does not determine program status for the parcel. |
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  | Area reported-crime context | `locus_area_incidents` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 1000, "lookbackDays": 365 }` | Area-level or citywide reported-incident context where wired, plus caveats. No safety verdict. |
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+ | Recent 311 service requests | `locus_service_requests` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 1000, "lookbackDays": 365 }` | Recent San Diego Get It Done request type, status, dates, and public location from the synced city feed. A service request is a report, not a verified condition, code violation, responsible-party finding, or complete account of local activity. |
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+ | Local legislation preview | `locus_local_legislation` | `{ "address": "...", "ownerActions": ["registration_required"], "domains": ["property_tax"] }` | Recent property-relevant legislation preview, status labels, source attribution. Oklahoma City and Las Vegas use PII-safe PrimeGov source pointers: Locus omits unstructured provider titles and the calling agent opens the cited item before describing it. Optional filters select the one headline before the cap. Not legal advice. |
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  | Dated changes around one place | `locus_ownership_loop` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 1500, "state": "NC", "countyFips3": "183", "zip": "27601" }` | Composite dated-change bundle across available ownership, tax, flood, transfer, and local lanes. |
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  | Coastal overlays | `locus_coastal_county_overlays` | `{ "address": "..." }` or `{ "latitude": 34.22, "longitude": -77.88, "county": "auto" }` | Coastal hazard overlays, parcel/address facts, zoning/flood/wetland/resiliency context for supported coastal counties. |
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+ | EPA facility compliance | `locus_regulated_facility_compliance` | `{ "address": "...", "radiusMeters": 5000 }` | EPA ECHO facility compliance and inspection/enforcement summary when upstream is healthy. It links to paid `locus-nei-emissions-nearby` for NEI detail. |
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+ - Most focused tools list between $0.05 and $0.10 USDC. Turnkey-backed composites cost more because their prices include the conservative Pay as You Go signature rate: the flyer is $0.99, solar comparison is $1.09, rental operations is $0.79, and the three-property buyer comparison is $2.49. Free signature allowances are excluded from unit economics. Read the live challenge before payment.
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+ - Settled x402 replay returns the stored canonical artifact without another charge. Owner-of-record is an ephemeral paid enrichment: the first settled response and a later replay each fetch the current official field for the same exact verified parcel, with a fresh citation. Canonical replay, public/share/pin/model persist, Stripe, Watch, free, and unpaid remain owner-free. Optional caller context guides presentation only.
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+ The paid catalog includes native products, promoted free duals, and the seven paid-only atomics listed above. Native tools use the transports listed in their catalogs. The six paid-only atomics are REST-only.
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+ 1. **REST:** call `POST /api/<tool-slug>`. Read the x402 v2 `PaymentRequired` body from HTTP 402. Retry the identical request with `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`. Read settlement from `PAYMENT-RESPONSE`. Legacy `X-PAYMENT` and `X-PAYMENT-RESPONSE` remain compatibility aliases.
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+ 2. **MCP:** use only paid entries present in the MCP catalog. Call `locus_execute`, then retry with `_meta["x402/payment"]` when challenged.
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+ 3. **A2A:** activate `https://github.com/google-a2a/a2a-x402/v0.1` in `X-A2A-Extensions`. A covered paid call returns a task in `input-required` state with `x402.payment.required`. Retry with the same `taskId` and `contextId` and put only `x402.payment.payload` in message metadata; Locus reuses the server-bound tool and arguments. If the completion response is lost, repeat the same payment-only message during the task's short recovery window. The settled replay returns the stored canonical artifact and may refresh the ephemeral owner-of-record field for the same exact verified parcel without another settlement. If you repeat the tool call, it must match that binding. Read settlement from `x402.payment.receipts` in the completed task.
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+ Locus may advertise more than one x402 option in `accepts[]`. Production offers USDC on Base and Solana when both rails are healthy. Choose one complete entry. Never combine the amount or asset from one entry with the network, recipient, or Solana `feePayer` from another entry. Solana clients use the standard `@x402/svm` exact-payment shape; the hosted facilitator verifies, fee-sponsors, and settles the partially signed transaction.
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+ `GET` on any paid endpoint returns a side-effect-free discovery challenge. Do not sign that challenge for a Turnkey-backed workflow because it has no exact request body and reserves no provider capacity. Send the exact `POST` body without payment first. That charge-free preflight either returns a current 402 or an uncharged availability error.
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+ 1. `POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-flood-zone` with a real address, satisfy the $0.01 challenge, and confirm a 200 with a `PAYMENT-RESPONSE` header (or the legacy `X-PAYMENT-RESPONSE` compatibility header).
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+ 2. Keep the payment challenge and settlement receipt. Keep signed `offer-receipt` evidence when present. The current EIP-712 receipt extension is EVM-only, so a Solana settlement may omit that additive extension while still returning the standard `PAYMENT-RESPONSE` transaction receipt.
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- - **Sign only what the live challenge says.** Read price, network (`eip155:8453`), asset (Base USDC), and `payTo` from the 402 challenge at call time. Do not reuse cached values from docs, catalogs, or earlier calls.
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+ - **Sign only one complete live offer.** Read price, network, asset, `payTo`, and network-specific fields from one `accepts[]` entry at call time. Production may offer Base (`eip155:8453`) and Solana (`solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp`). Do not reuse cached terms or combine fields across offers.
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  - **A payment failure is generic on purpose.** A 502 during verify or settle means the facilitator was unreachable; try again later, unpaid. It never means you were charged.
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  | `409 payment_processing_retry` | The same payment is mid-execution, usually a concurrent retry. | Wait briefly and resend the identical request. |
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  | `502 payment_settlement_failed` | Analysis succeeded but settlement failed; the artifact was withheld. | Resend the identical request with the same payment header to resume settlement and receive the stored artifact. |
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  | `200` with `charged: false` | Coverage or data was too thin to charge; you received a free diagnostic. | Follow the diagnostic's suggested free lanes; no funds moved. |
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+ | `409 clarification_required` | The property-update resolver could not confirm the requested subject or matched a different parcel. | If `retryInput` is present, confirm the matched subject and call again with that object. If absent, ask for a corrected exact address and build a new request. Never resend the original ambiguous body. |
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+ | `400 property_flyer_claim_rejected` | A specific flyer field or feature violated a pre-payment content rule. | Read `details.rejectedField`, `details.rejectedFeatureIndex` when present, and `details.reason`; rewrite only that item as a factual property condition. |
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  ## Safety rules
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+ ---
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+ name: locus-property-tax-protest
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+ preamble-tier: 1
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+ version: 1.0.0
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+ description: Use when an owner or their agent wants to contest a property-tax assessment for one US address and needs the deadline, the cited evidence, the filing steps and an outcome baseline from Locus tools.
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+ triggers:
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+ - protest my property taxes
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+ - appeal my assessment
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+ - notice of appraised value
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+ - notice of assessment too high
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+ - ARB hearing
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+ - value adjustment board petition
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+ - board of review appeal
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+ - assessment grievance
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+ allowed-tools: Bash Read AskUserQuestion
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+ license: MIT
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+ ---
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+ # Locus property-tax protest workflow
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+
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+ Locus supplies the clock, the cited record evidence, the filing rules and the public outcome
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+ baseline. The agent and the owner own the argument, the value position, the filing and the
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+ hearing. Never let a Locus output be presented as "you are over-assessed", "you should protest",
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+ "your value should be X" or "you will win": Locus does not produce those statements and neither
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+ may you on Locus's behalf. Report record facts and arithmetic, attribute every number to its source.
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+
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+ Inputs you need from the owner before spending money: the street address; the noticed (appraised
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+ or assessed) value and the date printed on the notice; whether the home is the owner's primary
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+ residence; the tax year. Do not collect or forward Social Security numbers, account numbers or
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+ anything the filing portal does not require.
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+ ## 1. Clock first (free)
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+ 1. `locus_appeal_window` with `{ address, noticeDate }` or `{ state, noticeDate }`; state accepts a two-letter code or full name (add `locality` for NY or Philadelphia,
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+ `revaluationYear` for NJ, `countyExtended` for WA). Read the computed deadline, the statute and
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+ the caveats. If `matched` is false the state is not covered: fall back to
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+ `locus_tax_calendar` for the statutory framing and the county's official source, and say so.
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+ 2. `locus_tax_calendar` with the county and state: reappraisal cadence, exemption deadlines, bill
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+ and delinquency rules. If a homestead or relief deadline is still open, surface it; it is often
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+ worth more than the value protest.
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+ 3. If the deadline has passed in Texas, check the late-correction rule (Tax Code 25.25(d), in the
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+ tax calendar framing) and report it as a rule, not advice.
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+ ## 2. Evidence (paid, one settlement each)
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+ 4. `locus-valuation-challenge` with `{ address, proposedValue: <noticed value>, source:
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+ "assessment_notice", purpose: "protest", noticeYear }`. It returns cited sections: recorded
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+ sales in the window, the subject parcel's public facts, permits, hazards, tax and zoning
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+ records, and the assessment-uniformity section (same-class parcels on the same roll, assessed
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+ and per-square-foot distributions, the subject's percentile, the noticed-versus-median
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+ difference). `charged:false` means fewer than two sections were substantive; do not retry to
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+ force a charge.
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+ 5. `locus-comps-brief` only when you need more recorded sales than the challenge carried
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+ (different radius or months). Same rules: arithmetic over public records, no valuation.
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+ 6. Present the two grounds the boards recognize as two record tables, not conclusions:
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+ market evidence (recorded sales, dates, prices, price per land square foot) and uniformity
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+ evidence (assessed values of same-class neighbors and where the subject sits). Any adjustment
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+ for size, age or condition is the owner's or agent's judgment; label it as such and keep it
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+ outside the cited tables.
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+ ## 3. Programs the notice may hide (free)
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+ 7. `locus_owner_programs` and `locus_program_windows` for the address: homestead and relief
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+ deadlines, caps that should already be on the notice, local freezes, amnesties. If the notice
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+ lacks a homestead exemption the owner believes is on file, that is a separate filing with its
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+ own deadline; say so.
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+ ## 4. Filing steps and handoff
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+ 8. `locus_appeal_filing_guide` (when available) for the jurisdiction: the form or portal, the fee,
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+ the hearing type, the evidence-exchange rights (Texas: the district must deliver its evidence
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+ 14 days before the hearing under HB 1533), the decision timeline and the next appeal level.
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+ Where the guide is not yet published for the jurisdiction, use `locus_tax_calendar`'s official
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+ county pointer and read the appraisal authority's own instructions.
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+ 9. Filing is a browser task on the authority's portal. The Locus response carries a
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+ `workflowHandoff` block naming the portal and the inputs it requires, plus x402-payable
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+ browser-automation providers discovered on the agent bazaar. Pick one, drive it with the
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+ owner's inputs, upload the evidence packet, and save the confirmation the portal returns.
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+ Locus does not file and does not see the portal session.
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+ ## 5. Outcome baseline (free)
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+ 10. `locus_appeal_outcomes` (when available) with the address, or with state plus county: published outcome counts and
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+ value changes by class, township or district and year, from the board's own open data
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+ (Cook County Board of Review decision history; Texas Comptroller ARB survey). These are
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+ aggregates. Never map them onto the owner's parcel as a probability.
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+ ## Completion
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+ The owner has: the deadline and its statute; the cited evidence tables with source URLs and
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+ fetched-at dates; the programs and deadlines that apply; the filing steps and portal; the
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+ confirmation from the portal if filed; the outcome baseline for the jurisdiction. Every number
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+ in your write-up traces to a Locus citation or to an input the owner gave you.
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+ preamble-tier: 1
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+ version: 1.1.0
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+ description: Use when a buyer wants one paid, bounded surrounding-area evidence packet and may later want its separate HTML/PDF report upgrade.
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+ - surrounding area analysis
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+ - what is around this property
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+ - neighboring parcels and nearby development
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+ - surrounding area report
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+ allowed-tools: Bash Read AskUserQuestion
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+ license: MIT
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+ ---
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+ # Locus Surrounding-Area Analysis
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+ Use the canonical paid endpoints. Do not reconstruct this product by stitching free-tool results together. This workflow requires **two separate purchase approvals**: first the JSON packet, then, only if eligible and wanted, the report.
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+ Locus provides documented public-record context, not a verdict. Never express value direction, a score, development probability, a safe/unsafe label, or a recommendation to buy, sell, rent, lend, insure, or screen.
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+ ## Non-negotiable contract
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+ - Start with the buyer's exact address and bounded question. Do not silently substitute a better-covered place.
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+ - Default `radiusMeters` to **500**. Use 100 or 200 m when the buyer explicitly needs a compact urban adjacency window. Widen only when the question needs it. The minimum is 100 m and the maximum is 1,000 m. Call every radius an evidence window, never a causal impact radius. Standard ring aggregates are `null` when that full ring lies outside the requested window; use exact returned distances for parcels between standard rings.
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+ - Keep topology separate from distance. Group source-proven `edge_touch` and `point_touch` as **mapped parcel contact** for presentation, but retain each exact subtype. Only `edge_touch` means adjacent. `point_touch` (including corner contact), overlap, containment, coincident geometry, unclassified touch/intersection, and distance-only proximity are not adjacency.
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+ - Keep record states distinct: `recorded_current`, `pending_change`, `adopted_not_effective`, `permitted_not_observed`, `observed_not_verified`, `completed_or_closed_officially`, and `source_unavailable`.
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+ - Treat dated aerial evidence as optional. It does not establish ownership, permits, completion, lawful use, compliance, or present condition.
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+ - Preserve every component status, search bound, date, citation, partiality flag, and caveat. `no_records_found` means a bounded applicable source query completed; `source_unavailable` does not mean zero records.
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+ - Never expose owner or mailing fields, assessed values, sale prices, or inferred common ownership from upstream material.
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+ ## 1. Discover and preflight
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+ 2. Fetch the live paid index at `GET https://api.locus.report/.well-known/ai-tool/index.json`, then the manifests for:
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+ - `locus-surrounding-area-analysis`
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+ - `locus-surrounding-area-report`
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+ 3. Validate the analysis request against the live schema. Use:
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+ ```json
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+ {
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ 4. Make the unpaid analysis request to obtain live payment terms or a charge-free preflight diagnostic. Read price, asset, network, recipient, and expiry from the live x402 challenge. Never hardcode a recipient, asset contract, or network.
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+ 5. Explain that chargeability requires a stable subject, a completed surrounding-parcel foundation, and at least one other completed component. An applicable bounded `no_records_found` may count; unsupported, unavailable, and failed work does not. A failed or non-chargeable result must not settle.
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+ The product contract price is **$0.10 USDC for the JSON packet**. If the live manifest or challenge differs, stop, show the new live terms, and request fresh approval. Do not rely on remembered terms.
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+ ## 2. Approval A — JSON packet
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+ Before signing or sending payment, ask a direct question that includes the live tool, price, asset, network, and recipient:
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+ > Approve the $0.10 USDC purchase of `locus-surrounding-area-analysis` on <live network>, paid to <live recipient>, for <address> within the <radius>-meter evidence window?
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+ Proceed only after an explicit yes to this exact purchase. Approval for another Locus tool, a total budget, or a future report is not approval. Retry the identical paid request only under the x402 client's idempotent replay rules; never create a second authorization to repair an uncertain settlement.
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+ ## 3. Present the canonical packet
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+ Use the endpoint response as the only packet authority. Do not invent or augment records client-side. Present in this order:
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+ 1. **Subject:** site address, parcel identity, jurisdiction, and location confidence.
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+ 2. **Strongest verified current or scheduled changes:** dated official changes first; do not lead with source counts, packet IDs, or delivery metadata.
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+ 3. **Parcel relationships:** topology and distance in separate fields. Summarize exact edge and point rows under “Mapped Parcel Contacts.” Say “shares a source-proven edge” only for `edge_touch`; say “touches at a point/corner” for `point_touch` and never call it adjacent.
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+ 4. **Component evidence:** surrounding parcels; zoning and land use; development cases; permits; local legislation; transportation and capital projects; environmental mechanisms; optional dated aerial evidence.
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+ 5. **Gaps and open questions:** partial, out-of-coverage, unavailable, not-requested, failed, truncated, unresolved, or time-sensitive states and the next official verification step.
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+ 6. **Sources:** retain claim-level source names, URLs/locators, fetched times, and record identifiers.
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+ Summarize a large packet. Offer drill-down rather than dumping raw JSON. State that packet retrieval remains proof-gated for **90 days**. Keep the packet access proof private, out of URLs and logs, and use only the authorization header or documented request body.
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+ ## 4. Offer the report only after the packet
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+ Check the returned `reportUpgradeExpiresAt`, packet status, and live report manifest. The upgrade must be claimed within **24 hours** of packet creation. The packet itself remains retrievable for 90 days; do not describe packet access as 24 hours.
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+ Explain that the report:
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+ - renders the immutable purchased packet into proof-gated HTML and PDF;
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+ - performs no new research and adds no facts;
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+ - is one report per packet;
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+ - is retained and proof-gated for 90 days; and
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+ - returns an existing completed report without another charge on an idempotent replay.
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+ The product contract price is **$0.15 USDC for the report upgrade**. Re-read the live x402 challenge. If any term changed, show it and request fresh approval.
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+ ## 5. Approval B — report
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+ Ask separately:
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+ > Approve the separate $0.15 USDC purchase of `locus-surrounding-area-report` on <live network>, paid to <live recipient>, using this eligible packet?
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+ Do not infer this approval from Approval A. Only after an explicit yes, send the packet ID and packet access proof through the live input schema. Keep proof material out of query strings. Use the returned report proof in the `Authorization: Bearer` header for HTML/PDF retrieval.
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+ ## Recovery states
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+ | State | Buyer-facing action | Retry and approval rule |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | Availability failure or unsupported location | Name the unavailable lane and offer free tools or `locus_request_coverage`. | Do not pay or retry unchanged. New approval only after a materially new supported request. |
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+ | Missing wallet/payment context | State which live asset/network context is missing. | Do not sign. Resume with fresh live terms and explicit approval. |
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+ | Live terms changed | Show the changed price, asset, network, or recipient. | Discard old approval and request a new one. |
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+ | Approval declined | Stop the paid flow and offer free bounded primitives. | Never reprompt as if approval were granted. |
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+ | Payment failed | Report failure without claiming purchase. | Check settlement/replay first. A new payment needs fresh approval. |
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+ | Non-chargeable diagnostic | Translate the reason: no subject, unsupported, insufficient components, unavailable source, or execution failure. | No charge and no packet. Retry only when the next action changes the request or the source recovers. |
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+ | Partial packet | Present usable records and material gaps without filling them in. | The packet is still canonical. Do not repurchase automatically. |
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+ | Lost successful response | Use settled-payment replay/recovery to regenerate proof-bound access. | Do not pay again while the original execution may have settled. |
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+ | Upgrade expired | State that report eligibility ended after 24 hours while packet access continues to day 90. | Do not call the report endpoint. A fresh analysis purchase requires fresh approval. |
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+ | Report render/persistence failure | State that no report charge should settle and no partial artifact is usable. | Retry only after checking claim/replay state; fresh payment requires fresh approval. |
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+ | Existing report replay | Return the existing HTML/PDF and expiry metadata. | Never request another report payment. |
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+ | Packet/report expired or proof denied | Do not expose backend proof detail. State that hosted access ended or authorization failed. | Do not guess proofs. A new analysis needs Approval A. |
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+ ## Final safety check
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+ Before answering, reject or rewrite any sentence that implies:
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+ - positive or negative property-value direction;
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+ - a score, rank, forecast, or development probability;
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+ - zoning capacity, an application, a permit, or imagery proves construction or lawful use;
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+ - point/corner touch, overlap, containment, coincident geometry, or proximity means adjacent; or
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+ - missing records mean the condition does not exist.
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+ interface:
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+ display_name: "Locus Surrounding-Area Analysis"
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+ short_description: "Buy a bounded JSON evidence packet, then optionally buy its HTML/PDF report."
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+ default_prompt: "Use the Locus surrounding-area workflow for this exact address. Check live availability and x402 terms, require separate explicit approval for the $0.10 packet and the $0.15 eligible report, and present documented records without scores, predictions, value direction, or false adjacency."