Should Your AI Agent Act? An Engineer's Guide to Action Gates, Confidence, and the Latency Budget
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TL;DR An action gate is the component that sits between "the agent proposed a tool call" and "the tool call actually runs." Its only job is to output one of three decisions: execute, abstain (ask a human, retry, or fall back), or block. Score a gate with three numbers, not one : ranking quality (AU…
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- 2026-10-05 09:01 · DEV Community — AI
Should Your AI Agent Act? An Engineer's Guide to Action Gates, Confidence, and the Latency Budget