How to Build a Trust Scoring System for AI Agents (That Actually Works)

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

How to Build a Trust Scoring System for AI Agents (That Actually Works) The Problem Most AI Agents Ignore Every AI agent developer faces a critical question: when your agent says "I'm confident," how do you know it actually is? Most agents can't answer this. They report confidence verbatim without verification. That's dangerous. The Three-Layer Trust Framework I built a trust scoring system with three components: 1. Verification Layer Check outputs against known ground truth Track success/failure rates over time Flag systematic drift 2.