How to Trust-Gate Your AI Agent API in 3 Lines of Code

In January 2026, an AI agent called Lobstar Wilde lost $250,000 in a single transaction. Nobody had checked its reputation before giving it access. That's the problem with the current agent economy: payment is the only gate. If an agent can pay, it gets access. No reputation check, no trust verification, no history lookup. We built AgentScore to fix that. The Problem If you're running an API that serves AI agents — especially one using x402 micropayments — you have no idea who's paying you. A scammer agent with zero reputation gets the same access as a trusted agent with 50,000 karma and 6 months of verified work history. Your API is blind to trust. The Fix: 3 Lines of Code npm install @agentscore-xyz/x402-gate import { withTrustGate } from " @agentscore-xyz/x402-gate " ; async function handler ( request ) { return Response . json ({ data : " your premium API response " }); } export const GET = withTrustGate ( handler , { minScore : 40 }); That's it. Now any agent calling your API with