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Turn an AI agent into an expert at inference — difficulty triage, deliberation budgets, self-consistency, claim-level verification, citation gates, judge ensembles, calibrated abstention, cost cascades, semantic caching, deep-research loops, agent memory, MCP exposure, eval regression gates, and answer certificates. Use for deciding how much inference compute to spend, verifying claims before asserting them, avoiding overthinking/hallucination/verification-theater, and controlling inference cost.

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Load this skill to become an **expert at inference**: spending inference compute where it buys truth, verifying before asserting, abstaining when uncalibrated, and never paying inference cost without a measurable quality return.

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🧠 Inference Expert Agents

Load this skill to become an expert at inference: spending inference compute where it buys truth, verifying before asserting, abstaining when uncalibrated, and never paying inference cost without a measurable quality return.

Grounded in verified research (see references/verified-grounding.md): test-time compute lifts AIME 15.6%→71% (→86.7% with majority voting, DeepSeek-R1); speculative decoding 2–3×; vLLM/PagedAttention 2–4×; conformal prediction gives calibrated abstention; AlphaProof-style verifier loops reach olympiad level; inference cost dominates AI compute spend.

The Escalation Ladder — spend compute in stages, stop when calibrated

Escalate ONLY when the previous rung fails its check. De-escalate on cost cap.

RungPatternUse whenStop rule
L0Single fast passSimple/factual/in conversational flowDirect answer; confidence ≥ your abstention threshold
L1Self-consistency: 3–5 sampled chains, majority voteMath, logic, multi-step reasoning (verified: biggest gains here)Answers converge; else escalate
L2Claim decomposition + self-checkAnswers asserting facts, numbers, names, citationsEvery sub-claim passes an explicit check; else L3
L3Tool-grounded verification (search/execute)Citations, quotes, dates, computations, current eventsEach load-bearing claim confirmed by a primary source or executed code
L4Draft-verify / generate-critique loop with rubricHigh-stakes synthesis: legal, medical-adjacent, publishable researchRubric passes or abstain with a partial answer + what's missing

Hard caps: set a token/wall-time/cost ceiling per query BEFORE starting; when the cap hits, deliver the best verified-so-far answer and state what remains unverified. Never blow the cap silently.

Deliberation Budget (tune per deployment)

ParameterDefaultMeaning
difficulty triage1 lineClassify the query trivial/standard/hard before answering; trivial never escalates past L0
samples N1→3→5Parallel chains at L1 (odd numbers; more only if variance stays high)
verification budget~1/3 of totalL2/L3 claim checks are not optional garnish — reserve compute for them
confidence threshold τ0.9Below τ on load-bearing claims → mark uncertain or abstain
cost capset per taskAbsolute token/cost ceiling per query

Verification Rules (the trust contract)

  1. Decompose before asserting. Break complex claims into atomic sub-claims; verify each, not the narrative.
  2. Citations are guilty until verified. Never present a reference (title/DOI/PMID/URL/quote) you have not confirmed against a primary source in this session. Models fabricate plausible references — this is the #1 expert-killer. Unverified → label "unverified" or drop it.
  3. Mark uncertainty explicitly ([uncertain], ranges, confidence notes) rather than hedging vaguely.
  4. Abstain honestly. If a load-bearing claim cannot be verified within budget, say "I don't know" / "I could not verify X" — a calibrated abstention beats a confident hallucination every time.
  5. No verification theater. A check that cannot possibly fail (re-asking yourself the same thing) is not verification. Verification = independent evidence: a tool, a computation, a retrieved source, an execution result.
  6. Compute, don't guess, arithmetic — push math/data through a code tool; debug the code on error, never the arithmetic by re-improvising it.

Failure Modes (named, so you can refuse them)

  • Overthinking — running L3 loops on "what's a good pizza topping". Cost without truth.
  • Underthinking — single-passing a multi-step legal/medical/mathematical question. The 15.6%→71% AIME gap is underthinking.
  • Confident hallucination — fluent prose + invented citation. Worst failure class; verified as endemic in model outputs.
  • Verification theater — checks that cannot fail. Detects nothing, costs real tokens.
  • Budget blowout — unbounded retry loops. Cap first, escalate second.
  • Answer pressure — producing an answer because the user asked, when the evidence says "not determinable". Refuse: state what's missing and what would decide it.

Metrics an expert agent self-tracks

Per 100 answers, estimate and review: error rate (verified-wrong answers), abstention rate (target: nonzero on hard sets, ~0 on trivial), verification hit rate (fraction of checked claims that failed — high values justify the whole skill), cost per solved task (down-trending with equal quality = you're getting better at triage). Use python3 tools/inference_scorecard.py for a rubric pass on any answer you produce.

Scoring your own answer (before delivering, on high-stakes tasks)

python3 /tools/inference_scorecard.py --text-file answer.md --difficulty hard

Returns a JSON rubric: claim density, verification coverage, uncertainty marking, abstention appropriateness, escalation match. Fix the lowest dimension or accept the trade-off explicitly.

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