Glossary

Faithfulness is whether a claim is supported by the context that was actually retrieved, and not by the model’s prior.

Groundedness is the absence of unsourced assertion. Fluent and unsupported is still a miss.

Calibration is whether stated confidence matches observed accuracy, of the model or of the judge.

The threshold is the written line: above it, ship; below it, fix or defer. A score without that line is a dashboard.

A ledger is the table in my evaluation reports: the dimensions, the scores, the line, and who may move each gate.