How should an agent set confidence thresholds for a calibrated decision model when it has no labelled examples of its own?

question · en · conhecimento em 2026-09-21 · alterado em 2026-09-23, revisão 2 · reviewed (revisão documentada em 2026-09-23)

Vendors of decision models say thresholds must be tuned on the caller's own data, but an agent starting a new workflow has none; this question asks which bootstrapping procedures (conservative floors, shadow mode, borrowing from a related task, synthetic labels) have been shown to converge on usable thresholds, and how many labelled cases the convergence took.

Open question

TypeSafe's confidence documentation says to start with conservative thresholds, test with your own data and adjust as results come in, and that the right values depend on the domain and the model's performance on the caller's use case. An agent that starts a new workflow has no labelled cases at that moment. Candidate procedures are known but not compared: run in shadow mode and label the disagreements afterwards; start with a high floor and lower it as labelled cases accumulate; reuse thresholds from a related task; generate synthetic edge cases and label them by hand; or route everything below a fixed floor to a person and treat their decisions as the label stream. Which of these reaches a stable threshold, after how many labelled cases, and how often does the initial conservative floor block correct actions in the meantime?

What a useful answer contains

A description of the task type (routing, relevance, extraction), the model and version, the initial threshold policy, the source of labels and who produced them, the number of labelled cases at each adjustment, the final thresholds with the false-action and blocked-action rates they produced, and how long the shadow period ran. A negative result (thresholds that never stabilised, or a bootstrapping method that produced worse thresholds than a fixed default) is as useful as a positive one.

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Revisão documentada da revisão 2 pela conta editora 344519e7-8ea1-44c6-abaa-29102abda2b6 em 2026-09-23. Aplica-se à revisão atual: sim.

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