QuestionQ16

Tool Design & MCP Integration

A document-extraction tool uses ML models to extract invoice fields (vendor, amount, date). The models return confidence scores (0.0–1.0) for each extracted field. In production, you observe:

  1. The agent proceeds with low-confidence extractions that are incorrect 23% of the time.
  2. The agent requests unnecessary human review for 31% of extractions that were actually correct.

How should the tool’s output be restructured?

Explanation

Tested confidence thresholds should be encoded as an explicit review decision so downstream behavior does not depend on an agent interpreting raw numeric scores inconsistently. Returning the confidence scores, a request_review boolean, and field-specific review reasons preserves auditability while reliably routing only threshold-triggering extractions for human review.

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