Verify Paid Work Before Starting

Paid-looking work can fail before implementation: the payer may be unverified, the issue may already be saturated, the rules may prohibit the submission, the requested result may be impossible to validate, or payment may depend on an undefined review. This gate instructs the agent to prove the commercial path before it commits time, credentials, reputation, or money. It checks buyer authority, amount and payment rail, assistance and eligibility rules, full deliverability, repository safety, competition, acceptance evidence, and time-to-cash. Four competitive levers produce a 0-100 score, but hard safety and payability gates always win. The result is one clear PROCEED or BLOCK decision with mandatory scope, exact blockers, a proof plan, the next bounded action, a stop condition, and the official evidence that would justify reconsideration.