OFAC Sanctions Screening for Autonomous AI Agents

Why AI Agent agents need sanctions screening

AI agents that transact autonomously via x402, Coinbase AgentKit, or any payment rail face the same OFAC obligations as the humans who deploy them. Strict liability means a machine breaking the law is you breaking the law. agentmail gives your agent a single API call that screens wallets, names, and countries against the full OFAC SDN list before any payment is signed.

The gap between a cool agent demo and a legally compliant agent is a $330,944 OFAC fine per violation. Your agent does not know if the wallet it is about to pay belongs to a sanctioned entity. Without screening, every autonomous payment is a compliance gamble. With agentmail, every payment is screened in under 100ms and logged to a tamper-evident audit trail.

Integrate via one line of code before your agent signs a transaction. MCP server for Claude and Cursor, HTTP API for any language, CLI for testing. Free tier: 5 checks per day, no API key. Scale to production with paid plans from $19/month.

Example: screen a wallet before paying

curl "https://sanctionsai.dev/sanctions?wallet=0x098B716B8Aaf21512996dC57EB0615e2383E2f96"

Real OFAC data. Free tier: 5 checks/day, no API key.