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Architecture pattern

Confidence gate

Automation proceeds above a threshold; ambiguous cases go to another check or a person.

Plausible

What the pattern does

Automation proceeds above a threshold; ambiguous cases go to another check or a person.

Caveat

Thresholds require workload-specific calibration and monitoring.

Patterns are recurring shapes observed across the collected material. A repeated shape is evidence that developers converge on it, not evidence that it performs well in production.

Sources

Limitations

  • Thresholds require workload-specific calibration and monitoring.

Where this pattern appears

Record
pattern:confidence-gate
Canonical
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Last verified
2026-09-18