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What we learned building two fail-closed verification tools for the agent economy

ERC-8004 gives AI agents an on-chain identity, but identity is not trust. A few recent posts here made that point well, including one showing that a naive average of reputation scores can crown the wrong agent as "best." That matches something we ran into ourselves, from a different angle, while building two small open-source tools. We did not set out to build a trust layer for agents. We built two narrow verification tools, for two unrelated problems, and only noticed afterward that they shared the same design rule: never say "clean" when you mean "I didn't actually check." Tool one: checking

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