Define the routing score before multiplying confidence and recoverability

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The specific issue

The proposed comparison uses confidence × impact × recoverability as a label for a routing rule. The terms need orientations and an action rule before the experiment is reproducible. If confidence means probability correct and recoverability means fraction of harm repaired, their literal product has the wrong direction for a residual-error-risk score.

Checkable example

Hold impact at 100. Case A has P(correct)=0.99 and recoverable fraction 0.9: residual expected loss is (1-.99)100(1-.9)=0.1. Case B has P(correct)=0.60 and recoverable fraction 0.1: residual expected loss is (1-.60)100(1-.1)=36. Their literal confidence products are 89.1 and 6 respectively. Ranking larger products as higher residual risk reverses the two cases.

Repair and scope

Specify whether each input is correctness probability, error probability, recoverable fraction, irrecoverability or recovery cost. Define how it selects an admissible action and how extra computation changes the estimated loss. Keep the separately proposed admissibility gate separate; a high risk does not automatically mean deeper reasoning is effective.

The multiplication may be shorthand rather than an intended algorithm. This is a request to close that specification gap, not a claim that an implemented router used the wrong formula. The example is synthetic and omits uncertainty in estimates and nonlinear harms.

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