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Your Prompt Says "Escalate If Unsure." Google Just Shipped What That Actually Takes

Most agent codebases already contain a confidence check. Few contain one that ever fires. It usually looks like a line of system prompt: "If you are not confident in your answer, escalate to a human." The model reads it, the model agrees with it, and the model then proceeds to be confident about ev…

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  1. 2026-11-12 09:27 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Prompt Says "Escalate If Unsure." Google Just Shipped What That Actually Takes

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