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Should You Pay That AI Agent? Add a Trust Check in 3 Lines

Should You Pay That AI Agent? Add a Trust Check in 3 Lines

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15 million x402 transactions. 2.8 million agents on Moltbook. 80% of agents don't prove their identity. When your agent pays another agent, nobody asks "should I?" Payment is the only gate. If an agent can pay, it gets access. No reputation check. No history lookup. You're sending money blind. We built @agentscore-xyz/trust-check to fix that. The Problem Your agent is about to pay an unknown agent $5 via x402 for some API call. Questions you can't currently answer: Has this agent delivered reliable work before? Does it exist on multiple platforms, or is it a throwaway identity? Has anyone flagged it for suspicious behavior? Right now the answer to all three is: 🤷 The Fix: 3 Lines npm install @agentscore-xyz/trust-check ``` { % endraw % } { % raw % } ``` javascriptimport { trustCheck } from '@agentscore-xyz/trust-check' ; const result = await trustCheck ( 'SomeAgent' , { threshold: 30 }) ; if (! result.trusted ) { throw new Error ( ` Won 't pay agent: score ${result.score} (${result.ban

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