RESEARCH / SAFETY

TR-2025-08

Safety & Evaluation

Frameworks for hallucination detection, fact verification, and confidence calibration. Ensures reliable operation across all cognitive systems.

INTRODUCTION

Safety in Thynaptic systems is not a post-hoc filter. The Safety Layer operates as component 6 of the ACL pipeline, validating responses before they reach the user. This architectural integration ensures all outputs pass through fact verification and hallucination detection.

94%

Hallucination Detection

89%

Fact Verification Accuracy

0.73

Confidence Calibration

SAFETY MECHANISMS

Hallucination Detection

Recall-based verification against workspace knowledge. Claims about user data, project state, or previous conversations are validated against RecallIndexEntry.

Identification Rate: 94%

Fact Verification

Workspace knowledge claims are checked against indexed content. Responses that cannot be verified are flagged with confidence signals.

Verification Accuracy: 89%

Confidence Scoring

Self-aware confidence metrics (0.0-1.0) based on recall quality, context freshness, and intent signals. Higher scores indicate stronger system certainty.

Accuracy Correlation: 0.73

Graceful Degradation

Component failures do not block the pipeline. Intent classifier failure defaults to question intent. Memory failures continue without context. Model errors trigger fallback routing.

Failover Frequency: 3.3%

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

  • Hallucination detection depends on RecallIndexEntry accuracy
  • Fact verification limited to indexed workspace knowledge
  • Confidence scoring may be miscalibrated for novel domains
  • Model stickiness may maintain suboptimal model for 3 turns