Search Paul Graham's source corpus — a source-grounded persona of the Y Combinator co-foun
Search Paul Graham's source corpus — a source-grounded persona of the Y Combinator co-founder and essayist, built from 13,000+ cited sources: his complete essays, talks, interviews, and X posts — by semantic + lexical query and retrieve grounded packets (graded claims, quotes, evidence with citations). POST a JSON body { query, limit? (<=100), packetTypes? }. Flat micro-price per query.
10000 (raw units)
price
1
calls / 30d
1
unique payers
2026-09-17
updated
Provider
paulgraham.persona.energy · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0x45A4A9612D4d4E78703A63dC3eF36267A6c17D96",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "10000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"body": {
"limit": 10,
"query": "how to choose what to work on"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"entity": {
"slug": "paul-graham"
},
"packets": [
{
"content": "…",
"id": "…",
"packet_type": "quote"
}
]
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"properties": {
"limit": {
"description": "Maximum packets to return (default 20, matching the route default).",
"maximum": 100,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"packetTypes": {
"description": "Optional filter by packet type, e.g. claim, quote, fact.",
"items": {
"maxLength": 80,
"type": "string"
},
"maxItems": 20,
"type": "array"
},
"query": {
"description": "Semantic + lexical search query over Paul Graham's source corpus.",
"maxLength": 1000,
"minLength": 1,
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"type": "object"
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://paulgraham.persona.energy/v1/x402/entities/paul-graham/retrieve" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://paulgraham.persona.energy/v1/x402/entities/paul-graham/retrieve");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://paulgraham.persona.energy/v1/x402/entities/paul-graham/retrieve")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
Everything on this page is also available as clean JSON at /resources/9103.json, and this resource appears in /discovery/resources and /discovery/search.