Design a safe default behavior when the assistant is uncertain.

Instruction: Describe what the assistant should do by default when it is not confident.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Describe what the assistant should do by default when it is not confident.

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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: The default should be to narrow scope, ask for clarification, or escalate rather than bluffing. Uncertainty should lead the system toward safer, lower-authority behavior, not toward more confident guesswork.

I also want uncertainty to interact with action policy....

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