Similarity Gates Approve Reversals: A Validity Audit of Embedding-Cosine Thresholds in Agent Systems
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Scott E. Frias
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
embedding — A list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, so that similar meanings end up numerically close and can be searched.
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Dedup filters, semantic caches and grader gates built on cosine thresholds are common in AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → stacks, and this shows the failure is structural rather than a tuning problem.
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