# mcp-confidence

> A drop-in confidence gate for LLM agents: turn token logprobs into an accept / verify / ask-a-human routing decision, with honest per-model calibration.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
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## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-confidence/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/shaxzodbek-uzb/mcp-confidence
- repository: https://github.com/shaxzodbek-uzb/mcp-confidence
- version: 0.2.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agents, calibration, confidence, hitl, llm, local-llm, logprobs, mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-confidence

### Description (declared)

<h1 align="center">mcp-confidence</h1>

<p align="center">
  <strong>A drop-in confidence gate for LLM agents.</strong><br>
  Turn any model's token logprobs into an <em>accept / verify / ask-a-human</em> routing decision —<br>
  with honest, per-model calibration. Local &amp; open-model first.
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A language model can tell you *how* surprised it was by every token it just produced — that's what `logprobs=True` returns. `mcp-confidence` reads those numbers and turns them into a routing decision your agent can act on:

- **HIGH** → auto-accept the model's output.
- **MID** → verify (hand off to a stronger model or a supervisor check).
- **LOW** → ask a human.

It's **local- and open-model-first** (vLLM, Ollama, llama.cpp, TGI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint), the core has **zero third-party runtime dependencies**, and it ships a one-command **MCP server** so a cloud "director" (e.g. Claude) can delegate generation to a local worker and get a confidence band back with every answer.

## Why

The naive approach — "average the token probabilities, accept above 0.95" — is a weak and *uncalibrated* signal for open-domain free text, and quietly wrong on most models. High-frequency function words and MoE routing pull the per-token mean toward zero, so `exp(mean_logprob)` sits at 0.05–0.20 even for perfectly fluent output. A fixed probability threshold tuned on short structured outputs will reject good answers and accept bad ones once you point it at real prose.

`mcp-confidence` takes four deliberate positions to make the signal usable:

1. **Band in mean-lo…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.package-management (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-confidence/ (first seen 2026-09-10T01:19:27.654Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-confidence/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-confidence · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-confidence