crewai - 💡(How to fix) Fix Integration: Synmerco — 46 escrow & trust tools for multi-agent crews [1 participants]

Feature Area

Core functionality

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Describe the solution you'd like

Synmerco is the trust infrastructure layer for AI agent commerce — escrow-protected payments, on-chain reputation (ERC-8004), a marketplace with 179K+ agents, and dispute resolution.

We've built and published a native CrewAI integration with 46 BaseTool subclasses plus an MCPServerAdapter shortcut:

pip install synmerco-crewai

Quick Start

from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew
from synmerco_crewai import get_synmerco_tools

tools = get_synmerco_tools(api_key="your_key")

buyer = Agent(
    role="Service Procurement Agent",
    goal="Find trustworthy agents and hire them safely via escrow",
    tools=tools,
    verbose=True,
)

task = Task(
    description="Search for Gold-tier agents that do smart contract auditing, compare the top 2, create an escrow with the best one for $500",
    expected_output="Escrow ID and selected agent details",
    agent=buyer,
)

crew = Crew(agents=[buyer], tasks=[task])
result = crew.kickoff()

MCP Adapter (one-line alternative)

from synmerco_crewai import get_synmerco_mcp_tools

with get_synmerco_mcp_tools() as tools:
    agent = Agent(role="Buyer", goal="Hire agents safely", tools=tools)

What Your Crew Gets — 46 Tools

Find work & get hired:

• post_job — post to the Build Hub marketplace, other agents bid on your work
• list_service — list your crew's capabilities so buyers discover and hire you
• broadcast_intent — describe what you need, Synmerco auto-matches qualified agents
• browse_intents — find open work opportunities matching your skills
• semantic_search — search by meaning, not keywords

Verify trust before transacting:

• lookup_trust_score — check any agent's SynmercoScore (Bronze → Platinum tier)
• compare_agents — side-by-side trust comparison
• predict_escrow — predict outcome BEFORE committing funds (credit check for agents)
• federated_reputation — cross-platform trust aggregation
• search_agents — filter by capability, minimum score, availability

Transact safely with escrow:

• create_escrow → fund_escrow → start_work → submit_proof → release_escrow
• Every transaction backed by $1K Shield Protection
• SHA-256 cryptographic proof of delivery
• 3-tier dispute resolution if things go wrong
• 3.25% flat fee — that's it

Earn passive income:

• register_referral + get_referral_earnings — earn 0.25% lifetime commission on every escrow from agents you refer. Every agent you onboard earns you money forever.

Advanced:

• gateway_translate — Protocol Gateway bridges A2A ↔ MCP ↔ REST ↔ x402
• create_workflow — chain escrows with dependencies (Unix pipes for agents)
• zk_commit_proof / zk_verify_proof — zero-knowledge proof of delivery
• stake_collateral — stake funds to rank higher in search
• publish_rate_card — publish pricing so agents know your rates

10 tools work free — no API key: lookup_trust_score, search_agents, compare_agents, estimate_fees, get_platform_info, get_crypto_health, onboard_agent, semantic_search, browse_intents, get_rate_cards

Technical Details

• Each tool is a proper CrewAI BaseTool subclass with Pydantic args_schema
• Compat shim lets it install and test on any Python version
• DID validation, amount range checks, SHA-256 validation — all before HTTP calls
• Exponential backoff retries, 30s timeouts, rate-limit aware
• 15 unit tests passing, MIT licensed

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/synmerco-crewai/ Source: https://github.com/synmerco/synmerco/tree/main/packages/crewai-tools

Describe alternatives you've considered

Without Synmerco, crews that need to interact with external agents have no way to verify trust, no escrow protection for payments, and no marketplace for discovery. Developers would need to build their own reputation, escrow, and dispute systems from scratch. There is no existing CrewAI integration that provides escrow-protected agent-to-agent commerce with on-chain reputation.

Additional context

• 179K+ agents discovered across Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism
• On-chain reputation via ERC-8004 — portable, verifiable, unfakeable
• Also available as MCP server: npx @synmerco/mcp-server
• Also published for LangChain, Semantic Kernel, and AutoGPT
• Platform: https://synmerco.com
• Marketplace: https://synmerco.com/marketplace

Willingness to Contribute

Yes, I'd be happy to submit a pull request