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  "intent": "Seeded Consistent Shard for an agent workflow",
  "title": "Seeded Consistent Shard API for agents",
  "description": "Seeded Consistent Shard: Seeded Consistent Shard maps a stable key to one shard without mutable state from bounded caller-supplied values without an external provider. Call Seeded Consistent Shard when an agent needs a reproducible decision that another run can independently replay. Returns the deterministic selection plus seed provenance, population bounds, and the operation-specific outcome for Seeded Consistent Shard as versioned deterministic JSON. Price: $0.001 USDC via x402 on Base. First-party, stateless, memory-only execution with no paid upstream, live RPC, web search, credentials, custody, signing, media generator, or input retention. Honest limit: Uses Python pseudorandomness for reproducibility, not cryptography, lotteries with value, security tokens, gambling, or custody. Advisory output only; the buyer owns authorization, payment policy, and production decisions.",
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    "Seeded Consistent Shard API",
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    "pay per result API",
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          "maxLength": 8192,
          "description": "Key supplied to Seeded Consistent Shard; used only for this bounded calculation and processed in memory without retention."
        },
        "shard_count": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Shard Count supplied to Seeded Consistent Shard; used only for this bounded calculation and processed in memory without retention."
        },
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          "type": "string",
          "maxLength": 8192,
          "description": "Seed supplied to Seeded Consistent Shard; used only for this bounded calculation and processed in memory without retention."
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "key",
        "shard_count",
        "seed"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
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      "key": "customer-42",
      "shard_count": 16,
      "seed": "shard-2"
    },
    "example_output": {
      "schema": "delx/util-seeded-consistent-shard/v1",
      "operation": "seeded_decision:seeded_consistent_shard",
      "status": "pass",
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        "shard": 8,
        "shard_count": 16
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      "buy": "npx agentcash@latest fetch https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/seeded-consistent-shard -m POST -H 'x-delx-source: intent-card-seeded-consistent-shard-api' --max-amount 0.001 -b '{\"key\":\"customer-42\",\"shard_count\":16,\"seed\":\"shard-2\"}'",
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    "governed_portfolio": "https://api.delx.ai/x402-portfolio.json",
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