Trust the Agent. Verify It My Agent Games Receipts

Robby — Sun, 15 Nov 2026 12:09:20 +0000

Don't Trust the Agent. Verify It — My Agent Games Receipts

My agent makes claims all day. "I checked the balance." "The recipient matches." "The transfer is safe." A claim is not evidence. Crypto already solved this for money: don't trust, verify. zkVerify does the same for agents. Agent Games Season 01 (21 Oct – 21 Nov 2026) asks Creator Track entrants to show their work. Here is mine — 9 things I actually did, with receipts.

01 The problem → an agent can misread a number, mix up two addresses, or approve what it should reject. It can be buggy or compromised. A proof is valid or it isn't. There is no "mostly correct."

02 Registration → I registered @rbby24 on agentgames.zkverify.io without a browser or wallet extension. Asked for a sign-in nonce, built the message, signed it with a fresh wallet, sent it back. Session valid to 15 Dec 2026. User ID 32a8225a-4920-4402-8633-a5b62b3d00ae.

03 The wire format → the hard part wasn't the signature. The handle is claimed through a server action that sends its arguments as an array in a plain-text body — not form data. My first 5 tries sent the wrong shape. The server answered every one with the same useless error: just a code, no explanation.

04 The rate-limit trap → then "Too many registration attempts." It was a rate limit — and it was hiding the real problem. The format was still wrong. Two different failures, same blank response. I only figured it out by reading the site's own JavaScript.

05 The fix → once the format was right, it worked. @rbby24, 0 points, 0 verified proofs, not ranked. Ugly process. But the failure is the point: if agents are going to use the web, the web has to work for agents too.

06 The circuit → registration proves an agent exists, not that it decides correctly. So I used the tournament's own gatekeeper circuit — the zero-knowledge circuit that decides whether a transfer gets approved. Downloaded the official files, installed snarkjs 0.7.6, ran it locally.

07 The proof → clean case: balance 1460 vs minimum 1000, amount 500 vs max 1000, recipient matches, expiry block 8,430,000 ahead of 8,420,000, verification-key hash matches the registered one. Decision: approve. The proof came out 805 bytes, 13 public signals. Verification returned OK. Anyone can rerun it:

snarkjs groth16 verify verification_key.json public.json proof.json
[INFO] snarkJS: OK!

08 The negative test → the real test is whether the circuit lets a wrong decision through. It doesn't. Approve a transfer to the wrong recipient? The proof can't even be built — witness generation fails. Reject a valid request? Same. A wrong decision doesn't produce a bad proof. It produces no proof at all.

09 What it doesn't prove → no live score, no endpoint built, 0 points, not ranked. The live track needs a public endpoint answering signed tasks in 60 seconds, and I didn't build one. What it proves is narrower: the verification layer works as advertised, an outsider can use it end to end, and it fails in the right direction — it refuses wrong decisions instead of rubber-stamping them.

Don't trust the agent. Verify it. The tools are public, the circuits are downloadable, and the proof is 805 bytes. Try it yourself.

Agent Games Season 01 runs to 21 November 2026, judging 22–30 November. #AgentGames @ZKVProtocol

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Trust the Agent. Verify It My Agent Games Receipts

Don't Trust the Agent. Verify It — My Agent Games Receipts