# Reliability Scoring Summary

## Purpose
Explain how reliability-aware assessment helps prevent weak, stale, or uncertain inputs from driving governed runtime decisions.

## Audience
- Operators and policy owners
- Security and assurance reviewers
- Engineering teams implementing governed decisions

## What Reliability Scoring Does
Reliability scoring weights or gates inputs according to quality, freshness, provenance, consistency, and policy alignment.

## Typical Scoring Axes
- Source integrity
- Data freshness
- Completeness
- Consistency against expected patterns
- Validation confidence
- Policy compliance

## Example Threshold Behavior
- High confidence: proceed within declared constraints
- Medium confidence: proceed with additional guardrails or evidence flags
- Low confidence: escalate for review or deny according to contract rules

## Governance Implications
- Thresholds should be versioned in the decision contract
- Threshold changes should follow controlled promotion processes
- Evidence should record confidence state and reason-code outcomes