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          "method": "GET /v1/companies/{id}/payrolls/preview",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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      "async": false
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      "kind": "api",
      "route": "agent",
      "toolCall": "mercury_transactions",
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        {
          "method": "GET /api/v1/accounts/{id}/transactions",
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        }
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          "mcpEndpoint": "https://mcp.mercury.com/mcp",
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        }
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    "source": "productarena",
    "url": "https://ultrametric.ai/productarena",
    "generatedFrom": "data/processes.json + data/process-chains.json (the ProductArena founder-process corpus), resolved against live arena leaderboards at build time. Regenerate by refetching this manifest URL — it always reflects the currently deployed data, not a pinned data commit.",
    "license": "ProductArena Data License (DATA-LICENSE in github.com/ultrametricai/productarena): querying and quoting with attribution to \"ProductArena by Ultrametric Inc\" is fine; bulk redistribution or use to build competing datasets requires written permission."
  }
}