title.quote
Quote — the commerce face of title (transact it), at `POST /titles/quote`.
This capability earned a standalone page by the computed promotion function (2 of 4 signals): price posted + carries its own stateSet. Its frozen address never moved — /catalog/title#quote still answers as an anchored section on the noun page. Promotion is a regen event, not a meeting: lose the signals and this page folds back to the anchor while the redirect map retargets automatically.
The key selects the mode. Wire-compatible simulated responses, deterministic and replayable. Every payload is provenance-labeled { environment, simulated } in the body itself — where the row's live rail is a certified connection, it is live via connection: certified, connect to activate. Connecting is the ceremony: a credential submission at integrates.vin (dealer systems) or connects.vin (consumer accounts) enters the activation queue, and submissions rank live rollout.
Noun title · Pillar Commerce
Descriptor
The catalog row, rendered. This is the same descriptor that answers GET /catalog?select=….
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Noun | title |
| Facet | Commerce |
| Side | both |
| Pillar | Commerce |
| Kind | act |
| Status | sandbox |
| Gate | none |
| Mandate | none |
| Price | posted at /pricing |
| Door | title.vin |
| Motions | B2A · B2A2C |
The two spellings
One capability, two addresses — generated from one descriptor, so they cannot disagree:
- The catalog name —
title.quote. What the SDK, the CLI, and the MCP index call it. - The wire route —
POST /titles/quote. What HTTP calls it.
Call it
import { title } from 'apis.vin'
// the gate law is in the type system: Answer<T> = Ok | Empty | Blocked | Offer
const answer = await title.quote({"vin":"4S4GUHM69T3775945","work":"transfer","state":"state"})curl -X POST https://apis.vin/titles/quote \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"vin":"4S4GUHM69T3775945","work":"transfer","state":"state"}'Receipt — the sandbox wire answered the request above with this exact body at build time. Captured by the receipts runner (timestamped, provenance in the payload), never authored; it re-executes only when this descriptor changes.
{
"type": "OK",
"answers": "TitleQuote@1",
"value": {
"quoteId": "TFE-1",
"state": "state",
"filingType": "paper",
"lineItems": [
{
"code": "title-fee",
"label": "Title fee",
"amountCents": 1500
},
{
"code": "registration-fee",
"label": "Registration fee",
"amountCents": 6500
},
{
"code": "plate-fee",
"label": "Plate/transfer fee",
"amountCents": 2500
},
{
"code": "doc-fee",
"label": "Filing/doc fee",
"amountCents": 8500
}
],
"totalCents": 19000,
"currency": "USD"
},
"evidence": {
"quoteId": "TFE-1",
"state": "state",
"filingType": "paper",
"lineItems": [
{
"code": "title-fee",
"label": "Title fee",
"amountCents": 1500
},
{
"code": "registration-fee",
"label": "Registration fee",
"amountCents": 6500
},
{
"code": "plate-fee",
"label": "Plate/transfer fee",
"amountCents": 2500
},
{
"code": "doc-fee",
"label": "Filing/doc fee",
"amountCents": 8500
}
],
"totalCents": 19000,
"currency": "USD"
},
"provenance": {
"simulated": true,
"environment": "sandbox",
"source": "title-registration-rail-sandbox"
},
"events": [],
"meter": {
"charged": "0.00",
"posted": true
}
}Input
| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
vin | string | yes | — |
work | string | yes | one of transfer, lien-release, correction, duplicate, bonded, out-of-state-convert |
state | string | yes | — |
Answers
A typed OK envelope carrying TitleQuote@1. Every fact inside it is an evidence object — { value, source, timestamp, verification } — and act-minted facts carry a dereferenceable pointer to the event that minted them. Absence is typed (EMPTY), never a faked 200.
The gate
This capability is open — no gate; a keyless read.
The door
title.vin serves this noun on its two routes: / (the landing) · /4S4GUHM69T3775945 (the VIN lens).
Try it
Sandbox: every call answers a deterministic, provenance-labeled simulated payload ({ environment, simulated } in the body). Force any documented outcome with the magic triggers. Going live is a connect, never a ballot: submit the credential at integrates.vin (dealer systems) or connects.vin (consumer accounts) — submissions enter the activation queue and rank live rollout.
Emits
On success this capability appends to the record and emits:
Subscribe on the universal /webhooks rail, or replay from the subject snapshot.
Composed by
Workflows that lean on this leaf: sell-trade · private-party · refinance · lease-return.
Data model
Backs the Title entity. See the schema, relationships, and state set on title and in the data model.
Generated from the catalog descriptor. It shows only what the descriptor declares — the provider behind a fact is never named here; evidence source names the attesting authority at the estate's own level of abstraction.