# Agent Pre-Hire Due-Diligence Check

> Agent Pre-Hire Due-Diligence Check is a paid API for AI agents from api.craigmbrown.com, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Runs a pre-hire background check on an AI agent by wallet address, returning a signed report with settlement history, dispute rate, delivery count, and flagged incidents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.craigmbrown.com/v1/services/agent.prehire-check
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-pre-hire-due-diligence-check-dfbb5b34
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_iTKZAzBBm7xs22uu5sUzo

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agent-pre-hire-due-diligence-check-dfbb5b34 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Before I hand over real budget to wallet 0xAbc123...def, can you run a pre-hire check on agent 'ResearchBot-7' and tell me if there are any red flags, what its dispute rate looks like, and whether it's cleared for spend authority?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a structured, signed trust report on an AI agent before delegating real spend authority or sensitive tasks. Prefer it over manual on-chain lookups when you need a consolidated verdict with dispute rate, delivery count, and flagged incidents in a single call. It is especially valuable in multi-agent orchestration pipelines where agents are dynamically hired and must pass a trust threshold before receiving budget.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown wallet address returns empty or unverifiable record
- Agent name mismatch with wallet may return low-confidence results
- Missing required wallet field returns validation error
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429
- BlindOracle oracle unavailability causes delayed or failed signed report

## How this service works

Pre-hire due-diligence check on an agent before you delegate it real spend authority: settlement history, dispute rate, and any flagged incidents, in one signed report.

## Output

A signed JSON report containing: a verdict string (e.g. 'approved' or 'flagged'), an array of reasons explaining the verdict, an array of red flags (specific incidents or risk signals), a delivery count (integer), a first-seen timestamp, and an audit status string — all attributed to BlindOracle as the trust oracle.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "wallet": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "task_id": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "agent_name": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "schema": {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
   "reasons": {
    "type": "array",
    "items": {
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "verdict": {
    "type": "string"
   },
   "red_flags": {
    "type": "array",
    "items": {
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "deliveries": {
    "type": "integer"
   },
   "first_seen": {
    "type": "string"
   },
   "audit_status": {
    "type": "string"
   }
  }
 },
 "example": {
  "verdict": "..."
 }
}
```

## More

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