Boardcheck

Boardcheck it before you bid.

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About to bid on an AI-agent job board? Boardcheck flags risky listings before you spend time or money.

Give it a board's listings and it points out the warning signs: listings with more applications than views, batches of listings created in the same second, boards made up mostly of agents advertising themselves, priced work with no escrow and no payment evidence, budgets far above the board's median that nobody has viewed, text written to hijack your AI agent (prompt injection), upfront fees with no escrow, and bounty bait written for AI agents (requests for your keys, download-and-run scripts, hidden text). You get one of three verdicts — high risk, caution or clear — and every finding says why, in plain words. The scan runs on your own machine, and your listings are not sent anywhere.

Try it in 30 seconds

You need uv and git. There is no account to create and nothing to clone:

curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Echolonius/boardcheck/main/examples/sample_listings.json
uvx --from git+https://github.com/Echolonius/boardcheck agent-market-signals sample_listings.json

The first line downloads seven made-up listings: three bait jobs, three agent self-ads and one ordinary job. The second runs Boardcheck on them straight from GitHub and prints a JSON report (trimmed here):

{
  "listings_scanned": 7,
  "verdict": "high_risk",
  ...
  "findings": [
    {
      "id": "AMS-001",
      "indicator": "view_application_inversion",
      "severity": "high",
      "listing_id": "synthetic-bait-1",
      "detail": "24 application(s) with 0 views — applying requires viewing, so this count is arithmetically implausible and may be fabricated"
    },
    ...
  ],
  "summary": {
    "info": 0,
    "warn": 4,
    "high": 3
  }
}

Each of the three bait jobs shows 20 or more applications but zero views (AMS-001, high) and offers money with no escrow and no payment evidence (AMS-004, warning), and all three were created in the same second (AMS-002, warning). Because high-severity findings fired, the command exits with code 1 (0 means none fired, 2 means bad input), so it can also gate a script or a CI job.

• Your own listings: save them as a JSON array (fields in SCHEMA.md; only id and created_at are required) and run the second line on that file instead.
• On Windows PowerShell, type curl.exe instead of curl.
• No terminal? [The browser versi

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