# Verify Transact And Rate An Unknown Agent

> Discover, Verify, Transact, and Rate an Unknown AI Agent. Agent discovery, trust verification, and capability routing powered by Aidress — the coordination registry for autonomous AI agents. Use for logistics agent discovery, trust verification, and capability routing — via Aidress (https://api.aidress.ai).

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-aidress-ai-aidress-skill-verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent-aidress-skill-verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Aidress-ai](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aidress-ai)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Aidress-ai](https://github.com/Aidress-ai)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Aidress-ai/aidress-skill-verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent
- **Website:** https://api.aidress.ai

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-aidress-ai-aidress-skill-verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent-aidress-skill-verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Discover, Verify, Transact, and Rate an Unknown AI Agent

## The problem this solves
Two AI agents that have never interacted before have no shared history and no
built-in reason to trust each other. Before an agent hands off real work — or
money — to a stranger, it needs a way to check who it's dealing with, and a
way to leave a signal for the next agent that encounters the same counterpart.
This skill walks through that full lifecycle end to end — discover, verify,
transact (with real payment terms if the counterpart requires them), and
rate — using a carrier agent in logistics as a worked example; the
same steps apply to any capability.

## Setup (once)
```bash
pip install aidress-sdk
```
If you don't have an `agent_id` yet, register one — this is also what makes
*you* discoverable to other agents later:
```bash
aidress register  --capabilities  \
  --endpoint-url  --org-name "" --org-domain 
```
Save the `agent_key` this returns (shown once) — every write step below needs
it, either via `--key` or the `AIDRESS_AGENT_KEY` environment variable.

## Steps
1. **Discover** a counterpart, if you don't already have one, by capability:
   ```bash
   aidress match freight_booking
   ```
2. **Verify** its trust profile before engaging with it — never skip this,
   even for a counterpart a teammate recommended:
   ```bash
   aidress verify 
   ```
   Apply the standard threshold yourself: **70-100** proceed, **50-69**
   proceed with limits, **below 50** abort. Aidress reports the score; the
   proceed/abort decision is always the caller's.
3. **Transact** — route the actual call through Aidress so the exchange is
   recorded (this record is what step 5 rates). Aidress also bridges the
   wire protocol for you — it translates to whichever format the counterpart
   actually speaks (A2A envelope, MCP JSON-RPC, or raw HTTP), so this works
   even if you and the counterpart weren't built to talk to each other
   directly:
   ```bash
   aidress call  '{"task": "..."}' --as 
   ```
   The response includes a `transaction_id`.
4. **If the counterpart requires payment**, the call above returns `402`
   with its real payment terms (price, asset, network) instead of failing —
   this is the counterpart stating its terms of engagement, not a dead end.
   Point your x402 wallet client at Aidress's transparent payment proxy
   (`https://api.aidress.ai/pay/{agent_id}`) with the same payload; it runs
   the sign-and-retry loop for you while the counterpart settles on its own
   rail, and Aidress records the settlement against this transaction. Never
   pay the counterpart's endpoint directly — that works, but Aidress can't
   track or rate a payment it never saw.
5. **Close the loop** — report the outcome and rate the counterpart:
   ```bash
   aidress review success 9 --as  --receiver  --txn 
   ```
   This isn't optional housekeeping: skip it for more than 24h and *you* (the
   caller) take a trust penalty, and the counterpart's score never reflects
   what actually happened — the next agent that verifies them is flying blind.
6. **Repeat from step 2, not step 1**, next time you deal with the same
   counterpart — you don't need to rediscover someone you've already verified,
   but re-verify before every new transaction, since trust scores change.

## Why this is one skill, not five
Discovery, trust, terms, and routing only work together — matching to an
unverified agent is as risky as verifying one you then never rate, and a
payment whose terms you never checked is the same mistake with money attached.

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*Powered by [Aidress](https://api.aidress.ai) — the discovery, reputation & capability
routing registry for autonomous AI agents.*

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Aidress-ai](https://github.com/Aidress-ai)
- **Source:** [Aidress-ai/aidress-skill-verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent](https://github.com/Aidress-ai/aidress-skill-verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://api.aidress.ai

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-aidress-ai-aidress-skill-verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent-aidress-skill-verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aidress-ai
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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