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name: payments-hot-intelligence
description: Query evidence-tiered cross-border payment signals, daily operator or investor briefs, source records, and company intelligence from Payments Hot. Use when a user asks about recent payment developments, payment companies, stablecoin rails, payment infrastructure, corridors, or agentic payments and needs traceable evidence.
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# Payments Hot Intelligence

Use the public, read-only Payments Hot API at `https://pmthot.com`.

## Workflow

1. Start with `GET /api/agent/brief?locale=en&lens=operator&limit=5` for a decision-ready brief.
2. Use `GET /api/items?scope=all&limit=50` when the question needs a broader search.
3. Narrow with `topic`, `query`, `origin`, `tier`, `from`, or `to`.
4. Open material records with `GET /api/items/{id}/markdown?locale=en`.
5. Use `GET /api/companies/{slug}` for company context.
6. Cite the source name, publication date, evidence tier, and original URL for each material claim.

## Operations

- `GET /api/agent/brief`: curated operator or investor brief with evidence links.
- `GET /api/items?scope=all`: unified official and external signals.
- `GET /api/items?scope=all&query=visa`: full-text signal search.
- `GET /api/items?scope=all&origin=official`: first-party company signals.
- `GET /api/items?scope=all&tier=B1&from=2026-07-01`: evidence and date filters.
- `GET /api/items/{id}/markdown`: one evidence-linked source record.
- `GET /api/companies`: monitored company index.
- `GET /api/companies/{slug}`: one company intelligence record.
- `GET /api/openapi`: machine-readable API contract.

## Evidence rules

- Treat A1 as first-party company evidence.
- Treat B1 and B2 as external reporting, never as company announcements.
- Keep Payments Hot editorial analysis separate from the agent's inference.
- State when data is missing, stale, or inconclusive.
- Never invent a source, date, evidence tier, company metric, or quotation.
- Keep the integration read-only. Do not attempt to edit or publish data.

## Output

Give the answer first, then add an `Evidence` section. Each evidence item must include the headline, source, evidence tier, publication date, and original URL.