AI agents on Base already pay each other, pay APIs per call over x402, and pay addresses they were handed a minute ago. Most of them do it without looking at who is on the other side. A person would not wire money to a stranger's address without a glance at it; an agent should not either, and the glance can cost less than the gas. This post is the routine we wrote for that glance: what to read before an agent pays, which signals mean "stop and ask a human", and how to run it on a schedule so ...