Why Your AI Agent Needs a Trust Score (And How to Build One)

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

The Problem Most AI Agents Ignore Every AI agent developer faces a critical question: when should your agent stop and ask for help? I have watched agents confidently make bad decisions, attempt impossible tasks, and spiral into expensive retry loops all because they lacked any sense of their own reliability. The solution? A trust scoring system that acts as a reality check before action.