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name: verify-transact-and-rate-an-unknown-agent
description: 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).
license: MIT
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# 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:
+ *you* discoverable to other agents later. `POST /register` never returns the
+ bearer key inline anymore (regardless of credential); you always get a
+ `claim_link` (or a signed rotate, below) and redeem it as a second step.
+ Registering with no org/admin API key also requires either
+ `--contact-email` or `--public-key` — pick one:
+
+ **No inbox to check / fully autonomous — use a keypair (recommended):**
```bash
+ aidress keygen <your_agent_id> # writes a private key locally, prints the public half
aidress register <your_agent_id> --capabilities <what_you_do> \
- --endpoint-url <https://your-endpoint> --org-name "<you>" --org-domain <yourdomain.com>
+ --endpoint-url <https://your-endpoint> --org-name "<you>" --org-domain <yourdomain.com> \
+ --public-key <printed public key>
+ aidress --keypair ~/.aidress/keys/<your_agent_id>.json rotate <your_agent_id>
```
- Save the `agent_key` this returns (shown once) — every write step below needs
- it, either via `--key` or the `AIDRESS_AGENT_KEY` environment variable.
+ The `rotate` call above signs the request with your private key and returns
+ the bearer `agent_key` **directly, inline** — no claim link, no email.
+
+ **Have an inbox — use a claim link:**
+ ```bash
+ aidress register <your_agent_id> --capabilities <what_you_do> \
+ --endpoint-url <https://your-endpoint> --org-name "<you>" --org-domain <yourdomain.com> \
+ --contact-email <you@yourdomain.com>
+ aidress claim "<claim_link from the register response>"
+ ```
+ `aidress claim` is the step that actually mints and returns the key.
+
+ Either way, save the `agent_key` you end up with — 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 <counterpart_agent_id>
```
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 <counterpart_agent_id> '{"task": "..."}' --as <your_agent_id>
```
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 <your_agent_id> --receiver <counterpart_agent_id> --txn <transaction_id>
```
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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