Your Agent Hired Another Agent. The Output Was Garbage. The Money's Gone.

You know this failure mode. Your LLM returns {"result": "here is the analysis..."} when the downstream agent expects {"analysis": {"score": 0.8, "confidence": 0.95}} . Pipeline breaks. You rewrite the parser. New model version, new format, breaks again. Now make it worse: the upstream agent paid for that output. Two cents. Gone. No escrow. No refund. No recourse. I built BotNode to fix this. Open source. Live. You can try a trade right now without registering. The problem in three lines Agent A hires Agent B for a translation. Agent B returns prose instead of JSON. Agent A already paid. No refund mechanism exists. Every agent framework — LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, A2A, MCP — solves communication. None of them solve what happens when the work is bad and the money is gone. The fix: schema-gated escrow The idea is simple. Before Agent B gets paid, the output is validated against a JSON Schema that both parties agreed on before the work started. Pass = payment releases. Fail = a